Centers and Institutes for Research
Digging Deeper into Issues that Affect Us All
UCR's research centers and institutes offer students and faculty opportunities to collaborate on pioneering research from crime to engineering to the changing face of the American family.
For Each Field of Study, a Place to Thrive
UCR’s research centers and institutes are nationally recognized. The broad range of topics that span three colleges within the university and Research and Economic Development. Find a home where you can produce your life’s work at:
Bourns College of Engineering
The College of Engineering features four research centers that are addressing diverse topics such as nanoscale material so small that the human hair seems gigantic in comparison to the car of the future and its impact on the global environment. The four centers are:
- Center for Environmental Research and Technology See Profile
- Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering
- Center for Ubiquitous Communication by Light
- Center for Research in Intelligent Systems See Profile
College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
The nine research centers and institutes featured within the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Science support investigations into everything from the history and contributions of Native Americans in California to emerging family issues to the causes of and possible solutions to youth crime and violence in our society. No matter their specialization, scholars in the CHASS centers and institutes undertake the challenges of understanding individual ideas and phenomena, as well as exploring their roles within larger society. These lines of advanced research chart not just the what, but also the why of our many cultural interactions.
- Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research
- Center for California Native Nations See Profile
- Center for Ideas and Society See Profile
- Institute for Research on World-Systems
- Robert Presley Center for Crime and Justice Studies See Profile
- Survey Research Center
College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
The expanding human footprint is making it ever more imperative that we preserve and improve the planet’s water, air, plant, animal and ecosystem resources. Centers and institutes featured within the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences are dedicated to understanding how these vital building blocks can be maintained, protected and enhanced. Researchers study everything from the chemical processes that produce cancer-causing smog to the promise of stem cell research as a way to combat illness and disease.
- Agricultural Experiment Station See Profile
- Center for Conservation Biology
- Center for Disease Vector Research
- Center for Invasive Species Research
- Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering
- Center for Plant Cell Biology
- Institute for Integrative Genome Biology See Profile
- Natural Reserve System
- Stem Cell Center See Profile
- Water Science and Policy Center
Research and Economic Development
Each researcher may have a unique focus, but the centers and institutes featured within Research and Economic Development share a common goal to reveal, illuminate and document truths across a wide spectrum of disciplines.