Life Sciences

Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies
The center brings together more than 130 faculty and professional staff across eleven University departments and eight affiliated hospitals to promote the identification, prevention, and effective treatment of alcohol and other drug use problems in our society through research, education, training, and policy advocacy.

Center for Excellence in Women's Health
The Center is dedicated to improving the health and health care for all women by working with academic and community partners and collaborating with public and private health care providers throughout the state.

Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research
The Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research is a multi-disciplinary research center with a special focus on the diverse health and social service needs of persons with chronic illnesses, especially older adults.

Center for the Study of Human Development
Child and Adolescent Development is the primary focus of the research and teaching of the faculty affiliated with this multidisciplinary center.

International Health Institute
International Health Institute was founded in 1988 to promote, develop, and coordinate the international health activities of Brown University, its faculty, and its students by applying an interdisciplinary approach to the development of research, education, and training.

Physical Sciences

Center for Advanced Materials Research
The Center for Advanced Materials Research coordinates and facilitates research and education in materials sciences across the campus, and fosters interinstitutional scholarship and study of modern materials by advanced experimental and theoretical tools.

Center for Biomedical Engineering
The Center for Biomedical Engineering provides students and faculty with the tools they need to conduct research in biomedical engineering, a dynamic field based upon the application of the tools of engineering to the subject matter of biology.

Center for Computational Graphics and Scientific Visualization, Science and Technology
The long-term research goal of the Brown University Graphics Group is to develop human-centered, powerful, and interactive 3D graphics tools for modeling, scientific visualization, telecollaboration, and interactive illustrations.

Center for Computational Molecular Biology
The Center for Computational Molecular Biology sponsors research at the intersection of computer science, biology and related disciplines, particularly in the areas of genomics and proteomics research.

Center for Geometric Computing
The objective of the Center for Geometric Computing is a long-range coordinated effort, carried out at Brown, Duke, and Johns Hopkins, aimed at facilitating an effective technology transfer from Computational Geometry to relevant applied fields.

The Lefschetz Center for Dynamical Systems
The Lefschetz Center for Dynamical Systems supports research in dynamical systems interpreted in its broadest sense as the study of evolving systems, including partial differential and functional equations, stochastic processes and finite-dimensional systems.

Environmental Change Initiative
The Environmental Change Initiative supports research addressing emerging environmental science and policy questions and trains new generations of students in research in environmental change.

Center for Environmental Studies
ES students and faculty address local environmental problems, working toward their practical resolution.

Center for Fluid Mechanics, Turbulence and Computation
Established in 1986, the Center for Fluid Mechanics, Turbulence and Computation was founded to promote research at Brown University in fluid mechanics, the study of turbulent flows and transition phenomena, the use of scientific computation in fluid mechanics research, and topics of related scientific interest.

Social Sciences

Annenberg Institute for School Reform
The Annenberg Institute for School Reform develops, shares, and acts on knowledge that improves the conditions and outcomes of schooling in America, especially in urban communities and in schools serving disadvantaged children.

Education Alliance for Equity and Excellence in the Nation's Schools
The Education Alliance promotes educational change to provide all students equitable opportunities to succeed. We advocate for populations whose access to excellent education has been limited or denied.

John Carter Brown Library
The John Carter Brown Library, founded in 1846, is an independently funded and administered institution for study of history and the humanities and has been located on the Brown campus since 1901.

Institute for Elementary and Secondary Education
The Institute for Elementary and Secondary Education (IESE) was founded in 1983 in response to teachers' needs for ongoing professional development related to school reform and educational issues.

Population Studies and Training Center
The Population Studies and Training Center (PSTC) at Brown University, formally established in 1965, is an internationally respected demography research and training center offering an outstanding interdisciplinary graduate training program.

Taubman Center for Public Policy
The Center is devoted to interdisciplinary research, teaching, and service on a wide range of policy issues.

Watson Institute for International Studies
The Institute promotes the work of students, faculty, visiting scholars, and policy practitioners who analyze and develop initiatives to address contemporary global problems.

Initiative in Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4)
Drawing on such new tools as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), this initiative supports faculty and student research that analyzes contextual social interactions across a variety of disciplines.

Center for Statistical Sciences
The Center for Statistical Sciences fosters research and statistical education at Brown Medical School and the University at large.

The Center for Study of Race and Ethnicity in America
The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America facilitates research on race and ethnicity as social constructions in American society and coordinates and develops Browns resources for research and teaching on racial and ethnic minorities in America.

Swearer Center for Public Service
The Swearer Center believes that service is a central concern of a liberal education and offers many opportunities to commit to direct action and to integrate action with intellectual inquiry and scholarship.

Wayland Collegium for Liberal Learning
The Francis Wayland Collegium for Liberal Learning was established in 1980 as a community of faculty united by a unique system of support for inquiries focused on global and interdisciplinary perspectives on significant issues of human life.

Humanities

Cogut Humanities Center
The Humanities Center supports faculty members in the various humanities departments and multidisciplinary programs by generating new resources for their research and creating forums for disseminating their work.

John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization
The John Nicholas Brown Center is dedicated to advancing scholarhips and education in American Civilization.

Center for Language Studies
Since 1987, the Center for Language Studies has facilitated contacts and cooperation among faculty with teaching and research interests in second languages.

Center for Latin American Studies
The Center for Latin American Studies at Brown University offers a flexible, multidisciplinary undergraduate concentration that promotes an understanding of the culture, history, and contemporary problems of Latin America.

Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning
The Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning supports the ongoing improvement of teaching for the benefit of the University and the community-at-large.

Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
The Institute was established to develop and integrate courses in Old World Archaeology and Art, and to serve as a resource center.

Leadership Alliance
The Leadership Alliance is a consortium of 31 of this nation's leading research and teaching academic institutions, dedicated to improving the participation of underserved and underrepresented students in graduate studies and Ph.D. programs and, ultimately, research professions in the academic, public and private sectors.

Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research
The Pembroke Center was established in 1981 as a research center on gender.