Centers and Institutes
at the University of Pennsylvania
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- Abramson
Family Cancer Research Institute
- Ackoff Center for Advancement
of Systems Approaches (ACASA)
- Center
for Advanced Study of India
- Center
for Advancing Care
in Serious Illness
- African
Studies Center
- Institute
on Aging
- Center for AIDS
Research
- Alice
Paul Center for Research on Women
and Gender
- Alzheimer's
Disease Center
- Center
for Analytic
Research in Economics
and Social Sciences (CARESS)
- Ancient
Studies Center
- Center
for Animal health and Productivity
-
Center for Animal Transgenesis and Germ Cell Research
- Annenberg
Public Policy Center
- The Campbell
Collaboration is an emerging international effort that
aims to help people make well-informed decisions by preparing,
maintaining, and promoting access to systematic reviews of studies
on the effects of social and educational policies and practices.
- Center
for Bioethics
- Bioenginerring
Research Labs
- Center for
Bioinformatics
- Boettner
Center of Financial
Gerontology
- Abramson
Cancer Center
- Cartographic
Modeling Lab
- Cerebrovascular Research Center
Martin Reivich,
Director
- Chemical
Heritage Foundation
- Center
for Children's Policy Practice and Research
- Center
for Clinical
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Center
for Cognitive Therapy
- Center for Cognitive
Neuroscience
- Center for Communications and Information Science
and Policy Professor David Farber, Director
215-898-9508
- Walter
Flato Goodman Center for Comparative Medical Genetics
- Christopher
H. Browne Center for International Politics
- Computational
Biology and Informatics Laboratory
- Center
for Computer Analysis of Texts (CCAT)
- Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing
- Data Mining Group -- develops principled means of modeling and analyzing large data sets.
- David
Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences
- Deafness
and Family Communication Center
- Center for Developmental
Biology
- Diabetes
Center
- Digital
Design Research Lab
- Distributed
Systems
Laboratory -- an academic and research facility investigating
advanced networking technologies
- Dubois
Collective Research Institute is a multidisciplinary academic
enterprise, continuing the tradition of "engaged scholarship"
in the pursuit of urban issues and themes.
- Center
for East Asian
Studies
- Institute
for Economic Research
- Center
for Economic Studies in Technology
- Economics
Research
Unit
- The
Eldridge Reeves Johnson Foundation for Molecular Biophysics
- Emerging Economies Program
Professor Bruce Kogut, Director
- Institute
for Environmental
Medicine; A
Center for Lung Biology and Baromedicine
- Institute
for Environmental
Studies is dedicated to enlarging our understanding of
key scientific, economic, and political issues and to providing
new alternatives to global management of environmental resources.
- Center for Equine Sports Medicine
Professor David Nunamaker, Director
- Center
for Experimental
Therapeutics
- Center for Folklore
and Ethnography
- Fels
Center of Government
- Fishman-Davidson
Center for Service and Operations Management -- The
performance of manufacturing and service sector companies are
optimized through the application of the principles of Operations
Management.
- French Institute
for Culture and Technology
- Center for Functional
Neuroimaging
- Center for Functional & Metabolic Imaging
Hank Kung, Ph.D. and Joel
Karp, Ph.D., Acting Directors
- General Clinical
Research Center
- General
Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Lab (GRASP lab)
-- focusing on robotics and control, vision and active sensory
perception, and design and automation.
- Penn Genomics
Institute
- George
Weiss Center for International Financial Research
- Center
for Gerontologic
Nursing Science
- Center
for Greater Philadelphia
- Hartford
Center for Geriatric
Nursing Excellence
- Head
Injury Center
- Center
for Health,
Achievement, Neighborhood, Growth, and Ethnic Studies (CHANGES)
- Center
for Health Outcomes and Policy Research
- Center for Health Management and Economics
Lawton
R. Burns, Director
- Center for Hearing Science
Professor James C.
Saunders, Director
- Human Genetics Center
- Center
for Human Modeling and Simulation -- The overall goal
of the Center for Human Modeling and Simulation is the modeling
and animation of human movement. That central topic drives a number
of related research interests covering a broad scope from image
synthesis to natural language interfaces
- Center
for Human
Resources
- Center
for the Interaction of Animals and Society -- Provides
a forum for addressing the many practical and moral issues arising
from the interactions of animals and society. Fields include veterinary
and human medicine, animal behavior, psychology, anthropology
and the social sciences, and the humanities such as history and
philosophy.
- Center for
International Comparisons -- The Penn World Table
displays a set of national accounts economic time series covering
many countries. Its expenditure entries are denominated in a common
set of prices in a common currency so that real quantity comparisons
can be made, both between countries and over time. It also provides
information about relative prices within and between countries,
as well as demographic data and capital stock estimates.
- International
Center of Research for Women,
Children and Families
- lnternational
Literacy Institute (ILI)
- Center
for Intervention & Practice Research
Prof. Larry Icard, Director
- Italian
Studies Center
- Jerry
Lee Center on Criminology
- The
Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International
Studies
- Center for
Advanced Judaic Studies
- The Knight
Higher Education Collaborative is a cooperative undertaking
of colleges and universities that work together to zunderstand
the higher education market and how to shape it.
- Krogman Center for Research in Child Growth
and Development
- Labor Relations Council
Professor Richard Rowan, Director
- Laboratory
for Biological
Research in Nursing
- Laboratory
for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM)
- Institute
for Law and Economics
- Center
for Leadership
and Change Management -- "We still know too little
about the qualities and practice of effective organizational leadership
and change management."
- Leonard Davis
Institute of Health Economics
- Linguistic
Data Consortium -- supports language-related education,
research, and technology development by creating and sharing linguistic
resources: data, tools, and standards.
- Logic
and Computation Group
- Penn Lung
Center
- McNeil Center
for Early American Studies
facilitates research and scholarly inquiry into the pre-1850 history
of North America, with a particular but by no means exclusive
emphasis on the mid-Atlantic region.
- Mari
Lowe Center for Comparative
Oncology Research -- Cancer research, treatment, and training
based around the veterinary clin.
- Institute
for Medicine and
Engineering -- Emphasis is on the integration of the engineering/computational/technological
sciences into biomedicine, particularly at the cell and molecular
levels, and the application of interdisciplinary studies to clinical
medicine.
- Center for Mental
Health Policy and Services Research
- Metabolic Magnetic Resonance
Research and Computing Center
- Middle
East Center
- NIH
Center for Molecular
Studies in Digestive and Liver Diseases
- Museum
Applied Science Center for Archaeology
- Nano/Bio Interface Center
- Penn Regional
Nanotechnology Facility
- National
Center on Adult
Literacy
- National
Center on Educational
Quality of the Workforce
- National
Center on Fathers
and Families -- An interdisciplinary policy research center,
NCOFF is dedicated to research and practice that expands the knowledge
base on father involvement and family development, and that informs
policy designed to improve the well-being of children.
- National Scalable
Cluster Project
-- Seeking to achieve economies of scale with clustered
computing, and to break the bandwidth cap.
- Center for Native American Studies
- The Center
of Neurobiology
and Behavior
(CNB) -- Fosters interdisciplinary research and training
in the basic neural and molecular mechanisms underlying complex
behavior, including but not limited to psychopathologic behavior.
- Center
for Neurodegenerative
Disease Research
(CNDR)
- Center
for Nursing
Research is a major support system for nurse investigators
in the School of Nursing and the University of Pennsylvania Health
System.
- PennHIP (University
of Pennsylvania Hip Improvement Program)
- Penn
Humanities Forum
-- A new center for reimagining the "thinking arts," the Penn
Humanities Forum brings the humanities into the public sphere
through: Public Lectures and Research Seminars, Courses, and Cultural
Programs.
- Penn
Language Center
-- expanding, intensifying and enriching Penn's language curriculum.
-
PennGen Medical Genetics -- a section of the
School of Veterinary Medicine
- Pennsylvania
Muscle Institute
- Pension
Research Council -- Generating debate on key policy
issues affecting pensions and other employee benefits.
- PET (Positron Emission Tomography) Center
Joel Karp, Director
- Plant Science Institute
Professor
Anthony Cashmore, Director
- Consortium for
Policy
Research in Education
(CPRE) -- unites researchers from five of the nation's leading
universities to improve elementary and secondary education through
research on policy, finance, school reform, and school governance.
- Population
Studies Center
- Premenstrual
Syndrome
Program
- Real-Time
Systems Group
-- develops methods, tools and systems to facilitate the design
and implementation of reliable distributed real-time systems.
- Reginald
H. Jones Center for Management
Policy, Strategy, and Organization
- Regional
Laser and Biotechnology
Laboratory
- Center for Research
on Religion and Urban Civil Society
- Research
and Evaluation of Social Policy
- Research
Center in Oral
Biology
- Institute
for Research in Cognitive
Science -- fosters the development of a science of the
human mind through the interaction of investigators from the disciplines
of Linguistics, Mathematical Logic, Philosophy, Psychology, Computer
Science, and Neuroscience.
- Institute
for Research on Higher
Education -- a center for research and policy analysis
of postsecondary education in the United States.
- Center
for Research on Reproduction
and Women's Health
- Risk
Management and Decision Processes
Center
- Rodney
L. White Center for Financial
Research
- School
Change through Inquiry (SCI)
Program -- primarily concerned with the development
of accountability systems that provide meaningful, useful, and
strategic, information about teaching and learning, to professional
educators, to parents and to wider public.
- Center
for School
Study Councils -- works to improve the quality of education
in school districts across New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
- SEI
Center for Advanced
Studies in Management
- Center
for Sensor
Technologies
- Center
for Sleep
and Respiratory Neurobiology
- Smell
and Taste Center
- Social
Science Data
Center
- Social
Work Mental Health
Research Center
- Solomon
Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict
- Sol
C. Snider
Entrepreneurial Center
- S.S.
Huebner Foundation for Insurance
Education
- Institute
for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response (ISTAR)
- Center
for the Study of Black
Literature and Culture
- Center
for the Study of the History
of Nursing
- Center
for the Study of Social
Work Practice
- Center
for the Study of Youth
Policy -- an applied research center seeking to have a
major impact on the issues and systems affecting children and
youth, including the juvenile justice system, the child welfare
system, and systems for children's health and mental health.
- SwitchWare
Project -- Active networks explore the idea of allowing
routing elements to be extensively programmed by the packets passing
through them.
- Systems
Design Research Lab -- develop methods and tools for ensuring
the stability and quality of large, complex software systems.
- Center
for Teaching and
Learning
- WEBI
-- Wharton E-Business Initiative
- Center
for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety
- Treebank
Project-- annotates naturally-occuring text for linguistic
structure.
- Center for Undergraduate
Research and Fellowships
- University of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
- Center
for Urban Ethnography
- Center
for Urban
Health Research
- Penn Institute for Urban Research
- Center
for Veterinary Critical Care
- Wharton
Center for Quantitative
Finance
- Wharton
Financial Institutions
Center
- William
and Phyllis Mack Center for Technological Innovation
- Samuel
Zell and Robert Lurie Real
Estate
Center
- Wharton
Small Business
Development
Center
- Zicklin
Center for Business
Ethics Research
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