A-Z List of Centers and Institutes
UB is home to a wide range of academic centers and institutes that focus on collaborative, multidisciplinary work in fields ranging from architecture and emerging media to homeland security and women’s health.
- Aging and Technology Research Center (A&TR)
- Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention
- Assistive Device Design Laboratory
- Automation Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory (ARMLAB)
- Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy
- Behling Simulation Center
- BioXFEL Research Center
- Buffalo Center for Social Research
- Buffalo Criminal Law Center
- Buffalo Human Rights Center
- Buffalo Institute for Genomics & Data Analytics (BIG)
- Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center (BNAC)
- Calspan-University at Buffalo Research Center (CUBRC)
- Canada-United States Legal Studies Centre
- Canada/United States Trade Center (CUSTAC)
- Canadian-American Studies Committee
- Center for Advanced Biomedical and Bioengineering Technology (UB CAT)
- Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies (CAST)
- Center for Assistive Technology (CAT)
- Center for Biomedical Engineering (CBE)
- Center for Children and Families
- Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care
- Center for Cognitive Science (CCS)
- Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education (CCGSE)
- Center for Computational Research (CCR)
- Center for Continuing Professional Education (CCPE)
- Center for Dental Studies
- Center for Educational Collaboration
- Center for Engineering Design and Applied Simulation (CEDAS)
- Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
- Center for European Studies (CEUS)
- Center for Executive Development
- Center for GeoHazard Studies
- Center for Health Research (CHR)
- Center for Hearing and Deafness
- Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDEA Center)
- Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE)
- Center for Integrated Waste Management (CIWM)
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Teaching Africana Studies in Schools (CIRTASS)
- Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange (CIRRIE)
- Center for Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness (CLOE)
- Center for Literacy and Reading Instruction (CLaRI)
- Center for Medical Humanities
- Center for Multisource Information Fusion (CMIF)
- Center for Nursing Research
- Center for Orofacial Pain Research
- Center for Positron Emission Tomography (CPET)
- Center for Protein Therapeutics
- Center for Relationship Marketing (CRM)
- Center for Research in Cardiovascular Medicine
- Center for Single Molecule Biophysics
- Center for Studies in American Culture
- Center for the Moving Image
- Center for the Study of Business Transactions
- Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture
- Center for Thermal/Fluids Engineering (CTFE)
- Center for Transportation Injury Research (CenTIR)
- Center for 21st-Century Music
- Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (CURCA)
- Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS)
- Center for Urban Studies
- Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR)
- Center of Excellence in Information Systems Assurance Research and Education (CEISARE)
- Center of Excellence on Human Capital, Technology Transfer, and Economic Growth and Development (HEAD)
- Center of Hybrid Nanostructures and Systems (CoHNS)
- Center on Knowledge Translation for Technology Transfer (KT4TT)
- Center on Rehabilitation Synergy (CRS)
- Circular Dichroism Facility
- Clinical and Translational Research Center (CTRC)
- Communication and Assistive Device Laboratory
- Communication Science Center
- Confocal Microscopy and Flow Cytometry Facility
- Control, Dynamics and Estimation Laboratory (CoDE)
- Confucius Institute
- Decision-Based Design Open Workshop
- Design of Open Engineering Systems Research Laboratory (DOES)
- Diabetes-Endocrinology Center of Western New York
- Differential Scanning Calorimetry-Thermogravimetric Analysis (DSC/TGA) Facility
- Digital Humanities Initiative at Buffalo (DHIB)
- Electronic Packaging Laboratory
- Electronic Poetry Center (epc)
- Energy Systems Institute
- English Language Institute (ELI)
- Fisher-Price Endowed Early Childhood Research Center (ECRC)
- Fluorescence Facility
- Great Lakes Program
- Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, Inc. (HWI)
- Hemodynamics Laboratory
- High-Field NMR Facility
- HIV ePharmacotherapy Network
- Humanities Institute
- Hunter J. Kelly Research Institute (Hunter's Hope Foundation)
- Immigrant and Refugee Research Institute (IRRI)
- Industry/University Center for Biosurfaces (IUCB)
- Institute of Bridge Engineering (IBE)
- Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology (IEMA)
- Institute for Healthcare Informatics
- Institute of Jewish Thought and Heritage
- Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics
- Institute for Person-Centered Care
- Institute for Research and Education on Women & Gender (IREWG)
- Institute for Sustainable Global Engagement (ISGE)
- Institute for Sustainable Transportation and Logistics (ISTL)
- Institute for Transnational Studies in the Americas (ITSA)
- Institute on Innovative Aging Policy and Practice (IIAPP)
- Institute on Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care (ITTIC)
- Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Partnership (ISEP)
- Jaeckle Center for State and Local Democracy
- Laboratory for Advanced Network Design, Evaluation and Research (LANDER)
- Language Research Group
- Laboratory for Molecular Visualization and Analysis (LMVA)
- Landscape-based Environmental System Analysis and Modeling (LESAM) Lab
- Laser Flow Diagnostics Laboratory
- Laser Research Center (Dental Medicine)
- Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LCMS) Facility
- MCEER
- Microarray and Genomics Core Facilities
- Miniature Access Surgery Center
- Multidisciplinary Optimization and Design Engineering Laboratory (MODEL)
- Multimedia Information Retrieval Group (MMIR)
- National Center for Biomedical Ontology
- National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science
- National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA)
- National Center for Ontological Research
- Native American Center for Wellness Research
- New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences
- New York State Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics
- Nutrition and Health Research Laboratory
- Olmsted Center for Sight
- Patient Safety Research Center
- Periodontal Disease Clinical Research Center
- Pharmaceutical Genetics Laboratory (PGL)
- Pharmacotherapy Research Center
- Polish Academic Information Center (PAIC)
- Population Health Observatory (PHO)
- Power Center for Utility Explorations (PCUE)
- Regional Institute
- Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Aging (RERC-Aging)
- Research Institute for Safety and Security in Transportation
- Research Institute on Addictions (RIA)
- Ross Eye Institute
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI)
- Roswell Park Clinical Trials (RPCI)
- Security, Privacy, Dependability Research Lab (SPIDER)
- Semantic Network Processing System Research Group (SNePS)
- South Campus Instrumentation Center (SCIC)
- Sports Medicine Clinic
- Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL)
- Teacher Education Institute (TEI)
- Techne Institute for Arts and Emerging Technologies
- Toshiba Stroke Research Center
- Toxicology Research Center (TRC)
- UB/Amrita Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute (UBARI)
- UB RENEW
- Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation
- Urban Design Project
- Virtual Reality Laboratory
- Western New York Cartilage Restoration Center (WNYCRC)
- WHO Collaborating Centre on Health and Housing
- Witebsky Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology
- Women’s Health Initiative
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