Centers & Institutes
UConn’s centers and institutes bring together faculty, students, and external partners to advance research, scholarship, and creative activity across disciplines. Spanning areas from health and life sciences to policy, engineering, and the humanities, these entities support collaboration, attract external funding, and extend the university’s impact across Connecticut and beyond.
Featured Centers & Institutes
A selection of centers and institutes representing the breadth of research and collaboration across UConn.
Culture, Creativity & Human Potential
Innovation, Technology & Data
Environment, Sustainability & Infrastructure
Health & Human Wellbeing
All Centers & Institutes
Life Sciences
Bioinformatics & Biocomputing Institute
Center for Advancement of Managing Pain (CAMP)
Center for Genome Innovation (CGI)
Center of Biological Risk
Center of Excellence for Vaccine Research (CEVR)
Institute for Systems Genomics (ISG)
Kildsig Center for Pharmaceutical Processing Research
Health & Wellness
Center for Environmental Health and Health Promotion (CEHHP)
Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP)
Center on Aging
Institute for Sports Medicine
Korey Stringer Institute
UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity
Environment, Energy & Sustainability
Center for Clean Energy Engineering (C2E2)
Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering (CESE)
Center for Land Use Education & Research (CLEAR)
Connecticut Institute for Resilience & Climate Adaptation (CIRCA)
Connecticut Institute of Water Resources
Connecticut National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR)
Connecticut Sea Grant College Program
Eversource Energy Center
Institute of the Environment and Energy (IoEE)
Engineering, Technology & Advanced Manufacturing
Connecticut Advanced Computing Center (CACC)
Connecticut Information Technology Institute (CITI)
Connecticut Manufacturing Simulation Center
Digital Design Research, Analysis and Manufacturing Center (D2DREAM)
GE Global Learning Center
Institute of Materials Science
Krenicki Arts and Engineering Institute
Nursing and Engineering Innovation Center
Pratt & Whitney Additive Manufacturing Innovation Center (AMIC)
Pratt & Whitney Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering
UConn-Thermo Fisher Scientific Center for Advanced Microscopy and Materials Analysis (CAMMA)
UTAS Center for Advanced Materials
Business, Economics, Policy & Law
Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)
Center for Real Estate and Urban Economic Studies
Center for the Advancement of Business Analytics (CABA)
Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis (CCEA)
Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation (CCEI)
Goldenson Center for Actuarial Research
Insurance Law Center
Peter J. Werth Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy
Arts, Humanities & Culture
Africana Studies Institute
Asian and Asian American Studies Institute
Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry
Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life
Center for the Study of Popular Music
El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean and Latin American Studies
Humanities Institute
Education, Human Development & Social Sciences
Center for Applied Research in Human Development
Center for Behavioral Education and Research (CBER)
Center for Educational Policy Analysis, Research and Evaluation (CEPARE)
Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action (CESPA)
Center for the Study of Culture, Health and Human Development (CHHD)
Human Rights Institute
International Center for Life Story Innovations and Practice (ICLIP)
Nancy A. Humphreys Institute for Political Science
Reading and Language Arts Center
Renzulli Center for Creativity, Gifted Education and Talent Development
Ronald and Nancy Rohner Center for the Study of Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection
Vergnano Institute for Inclusion
Public Safety, Infrastructure & Transportation
Center on Community Safety, Policing and Inequity
Connecticut Transportation Institute
Connecticut Transportation Safety Research Center
Interdisciplinary & Innovation-Focused
Connecticut Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences (IBACS)
Innovations Institute