Center and Institute Guidelines
Amassing Critical Thinking To Tackle Society’s Challenges
One of the keys to discovering creative and effective solutions to society’s greatest challenges is fostering an environment of collaboration – within and across disciplines – that fuels greater innovation.
Iowa State is home to numerous centers, institutes, and initiatives that are dedicated to supporting scholarly excellence and facilitating cutting-edge research. Learn more about these centers, institutes, and initiatives below by exploring the grand societal challenge that each set of resources primarily supports.
Healthy Lives
- National Institute of Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Education (NIAMRRE)
- Nanovaccine Institute
- Center for Food Security and Public Health (CFSPH)
- Antimicrobial Resistance Consortium
- Seed Science Center
- Partnerships in Prevention Science Institute
- Institute for International Cooperation in Animal Biologics (IICAB)
Sustainability
- Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD)
- Plant Sciences Institute (PSI)
- Center for Biorenewable Chemicals (CBiRC)
- Bioeconomy Institute (BEI)
- Institute for Transportation (InTrans)
- Center for Building Energy Research (CBER)
- Crop Bioengineering Center
- Center for Crops Utilization Research (CCUR)
- Iowa Water Center (IWC)
- Iowa Nutrient Research Center
- ISU Sustainable Cities
- C-CHANGE
- Iowa UrbanFEWS
Advanced Materials and Manufacturing
- Center for Multiphase Flow Research and Education (CoMFRE)
- Critical Materials Institute (CMI)
- Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE)
- Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC)
- Center for Bioplastics/Biocomposites (CB2)
- Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII)
Data-Driven Discovery
- Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence (CSAFE)
- Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology (CSSM)
- Laurence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics (CBBS)
- Information Assurance Center (IAC)
- Data-Driven Discovery
