As the academic heart of NYU, Arts & Science nurtures a thriving community of global scholars whose engagement within and across their disciplines continuously pushes the frontiers of knowledge. Pivotal to this effort are the research centers, institutes, and language and cultural houses across our academic unit. These are sites of scientific, intellectual, cultural, and artistic exchange between the Arts & Science faculty, students, and the broader community in New York City and across the world.
Research Centers & Institutes
AML: Applied Mathematics Laboratory
The AML is an interdisciplinary lab researching applied mathematics, physics, and biology through the use of experimental observation and mathematical analysis.
BCI: Biomedical Chemistry Institute
The BCI promotes cross-disciplinary study in areas aimed at improving human health, combining chemistry and biomedical science research.
CAOS: Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science
CAOS seeks to advance our understanding of the coupled atmosphere, ocean and ice system through the use of mathematical and computational tools, training the next generation of climate scientists.
CASSR: Center for Advanced Social Science Research
CASSR is home to leading social science researchers who are conducting distinguished and timely investigation into issues concerning population, inequality, distribution, and opportunity.
CBA: Center for Ballet and the Arts
CBA is an international research institute for scholars and artists of ballet and its related arts and sciences, expanding the way we think about its history, practice, and performance.
CBI: Center for Brain Imaging
CBI is dedicated to research and teaching in cognitive neuroscience, studying nervous system functions including perception, learning, emotion, social interaction, decision-making, and motor control.
CCPP: Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics
CCPP is a unique group of faculty, students and research scientists working together on fundamental questions at the intersection of particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology.
CEMS: Center for European & Mediterranean Studies
CEMS serves as an interdisciplinary hub for teaching, research and programming on Europe and the Mediterranean — from both a historical and contemporary perspective.
CESS: Center for Experimental Social Science
CESS is an interdisciplinary research center engaged in laboratory experimental work that combines high quality economic theory, psychology, political science, and neuroscience.
CGSB: Center for Genomics and Systems Biology
The CGSB houses research labs studying the genetic material of organisms through integrative experimental and computational modeling approaches.
CIC: Center on International Cooperation
CIC advances effective multilateral action — through cooperative approaches among governments, organizations, and the wider policy community — to build peace, justice, and inclusion.
CLACS: Latin American and Caribbean Studies
CLACS is a nexus for scholars, students, and community for collaboration and exchange on Latin American and Caribbean culture, including art, language, and politics.
CMCH: Center for Media, Culture and History
The CMCH adresses issues of representation, social change, and identity construction embedded in the production and circulation of film, television, video and new media worldwide.
CQP: Center for Quantum Phenomena
CQP researches condensed matter and atomic, molecular, and optical physics, as well as their applications to material science, spectroscopy, optics, and quantum information technology.
CSHO: Center for the Study of Human Origins
The CSHO facilitates the study of biological anthropology and archaeology, with an emphasis on collaborative projects, international fieldwork, and state-of-the-art laboratory research.
CSMaP: Center for Social Media and Politics
Through cutting-edge research, CSMaP works to understand politics, inform public policy, and strengthen democracy in the digital age.
CSMR: Center for Soft Matter Research
The CSMR is dedicated to scientific inquiry at the interface between physics, chemistry, biology and engineering.
CTL: Cash Transfer Lab
The CTL researches cash transfer policies to build an evidence base on their effect on families, communities, and economies.
C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics
The C.V. Starr Center analyzes and facilitates research on issues of important economic and social consequences to improve tomorrow’s economic decisions.
Center for Developmental Genetics
The Center for Developmental Genetics researches mechanisms that control cell development, cell-cell signaling, transcriptional patterning, stem cells, cell differentiation, and morphogenesis.
EBI: Emotional Brain Institute
EBI seeks to understand emotions and their impact on mind and behavior, to use emotion to bridge between academic disciplines, and to enhance public understanding of emotions and the brain.
Global Institute for Advanced Study
The Global Institute for Advanced Study sponsors working research groups on innovative and interdisciplinary topics that require cooperation on an international scale with a multi-year focus.
Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics
The Hemispheric Institute gathers artists, scholars, writers, learners, and activists from across the Americas, focusing on politically engaged culture and performance.
Center for the Humanities
The Center for the Humanities provides a forum for cross-disciplinary research, discussion, and collaboration in the humanities and the arts.
IAAA: Institute of African American Affairs
IAAA aims to research, document, and celebrate the cultural and intellectual production of Africa and its diaspora in the Atlantic world and beyond, focusing in Pan-Africanism and Black Urban Studies.
IPK: Institute for Public Knowledge
The IPK brings scholarship to bear on major public issues, nurturing collaboration among social researchers and supporting communication between researchers and broader publics.
ISAW: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
ISAW is a center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education, focusing on the study of the economic, religious, political and cultural connections between ancient civilizations.
ISDM: Institute for the Study of Decision Making
ISDM is the global leading institution for human behavior, decision-making, and neuroeconomics research, fostering improved, evidence-based public policies.
Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia
The Jordan Center seeks to make Russia intrinsic to all aspects of scholarly investigation: from history to visual culture, literature to economics, anthropology to politics.
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
The Kevorkian Center fosters the interdisciplinary study of the modern and contemporary Middle East, including histories, politics, economies, religions, cultures and languages.
Latinx Project
The Latinx Project explores and promotes U.S. Latinx art, culture, and scholarship, examining and highlighting the multitude of Latinx identities through creative and interdisciplinary programs.
MARC: Medieval and Renaissance Center
MARC promotes interdisciplinary learning and research in the history, institutions, languages, and art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
MDI: Molecular Design Institute
The MDI is a multi-investigator research facility that supports research in materials chemistry from the molecular length scale to the colloidal.
MRSEC: Materials Research Science and Engineering
The MRSEC combines researchers from chemistry, civil and chemical engineering, mathematics and physics to investigate multiscale materials.
Native Studies Forum
The Native Studies Forum builds a community concerned with historical, political, and cultural matters related to Native Americans and Indigenous people.
NYIP: New York Institute of Philosophy
The NYIP promotes scholarly events and multi-year research projects engaged in philosophical questions and debate.
Population Center
The Population Center fosters an innovative and cutting-edge research advancing knowledge of population issues, drawing from the social, health, and natural sciences.
Center for Religion and Media
The Center for Religion and Media stimulates innovative research and teaching in the interdisciplinary study of religion, especially at the nexus of religion and the mediations of social life.
Remarque Institute
The Remarque Institute supports the multi-disciplinary and comparative study of Europe and its near neighbors, encouraging greater mutual understanding between Americans and Europeans.
SAR: Scholars at Risk Network
SAR is an international network of institutions, associations, and individuals whose collective mission is to protect scholars and promote academic freedom.
Silsila: Center for Material Histories
Silsila fosters interdisciplinary conversations on material culture in general, including artifacts and images, and its value as a source for histories of transcultural and transregional contacts.
Sloan-Swartz Center
Theoretical Visual Neuroscience
The Sloan-Swartz Center seeks to integrate the study of the brain — grounding theory in well-designed experiments, and promoting experimental work driven by theory.
Taub Center for Israel Studies
The Taub Center aims to advance the study of Modern Israel: its recent history, society and politics, together with the history of the Zionist movement and the Yishuv.
Center on U.S.-China Relations
The Center on U.S.-China Relations explores the increasingly complex interaction between the two countries, focusing predominantly on economic and foreign policy questions.
