Research Centers

Centers are single or multi-disciplinary units organized to conduct research, scholarship, and creative work, education, and/or leadership and service activities. Centers are typically organized around the investigation of a specific theme, issue, project, or policy topic, but often encompass interdisciplinary work spanning a number of academic fields. There are over 75 centers at CU Boulder. 

Establishing/Reauthorizing a Center
For information about establishing or reauthorizing a center, please visit the Centers Establishment and Reauthorization Process webpage.

• Aerospace Mechanics Research Center (AMReC)

• American Music Research Center

• African Population Studies Research and Training Program

• Applied History Initiative

• BioServe Space Technologies Center (BST)

• BoulderTalks

• Brakhage Center

• BUENO Center for Multicultural Education

• Burridge Center for Finance

• Business Research Division

• Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law

• Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water & Environmental Systems (CADSWES)

• Center for African and African American Studies

• Center of the American West

• Center for Asian Studies

• Center for Assessment, Design, Research, and Evaluation (CADRE)

• Center for Astrobiology

• Center for Astrophysics & Space Astronomy (CASA)

• Center for British & Irish Studies

• Center for Computational Language & EducAtion Research (CLEAR)

• Center for Creative Climate Communication and Behavior Change (C3BC)

• Center for Critical Thought

• Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media

• Center for Environmental Journalism

• Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility (CESR)

• Center for Experiments on Quantum Materials (CEQM)

• Center for Geochemical Analysis of the Global Environment (GAGE)

• Center for the Governance of Natural Resources (CGNR)

• Center for Humanities & the Arts

• Center for Integrated Plasma Studies

• Center for Leadership

• Center for Media, Arts, & Performance (CMAP)

• Center for Media, Religion & Culture

• Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS)

• Center for Microbial Exploration

• Center for National Security Initiatives

• Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies (CNAIS)

• Center for Neuroscience

• Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (CPB)

• Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship (CRDDS)

• Center for Research on Training (CRT)

• Center for Resilience + Well-Being

• Center for Social and Environmental Futures

• Center for Software & Society

• Center for STEM Learning

• Center for Sustainable Landscapes and Communities

• Center for the Study & Prevention of Violence (CSPV)

• Center for the Study of Indigenous Languages (CSIL)

• Center for Theory of Quantum Matter (CTQM)

• Center for Values and Social Policy

• Center for Water, Earth Science, and Technology (CWEST)

• Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy (CWCTP)

• Center to Advance Research & Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS)

• CIRES Center for Education, Engagement, and Evaluation (CEEE)

• Clinical Translational Research Center

• Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)

• Colorado Power Electronics Center (CoPEC)

• Colorado Space Grant Consortium (COSGC)

• Community Engagement, Design and Research Center (CEDaR)

• CU Engage

• CU Population Center

• CU Real Estate Center

• Deming Center for Entrepreneurship

• Design Center Colorado

• Earth Science & Observation Center (ESOC)

• Energy and Minerals Applied Research Center

• Entrepreneurship Center for Music

• Environment and Society Program

• Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and Environment

• Health and Society Program

• Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Fundamentals & Application of Photopolymerization (IUCRC)

• International Research Center for Energy & Economic Development (ICEED)

• Latin American and Latinx Studies Center (LALC)

• LeRoy Keller Center for Study of the First Amendment

• Marion Downs National Center for Infant Hearing (MDNC)

• Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities

• National Education Policy Center (NEPC)

• National Snow & Ice Data Center

• Natural Hazards Center

• NSF Center for Pervasive Personalized Intelligence (PPI)

• Population Program

• Prevention Science Program

• Program on International Development

• Research & Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles (RECUV)

• Rocky Mountain Research Data Center (RMRDC)

• Silicon Flatirons: A Center for Law, Technology, & Entrepreneurship

• STROBE NSF Science & Technology Center