Vanderbilt University: Interdisciplinary Centers, Institutes and Initiatives
Interdisciplinary Centers, Institutes and Initiatives
Vanderbilt actively promotes research and teaching that crosses disciplines, departments and institutional lines through a multitude of centers and institutes that include the following:
- Addiction Research Center
- Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education
- American Economic Association
- The Americas, Center for
- Arthritis and Joint Replacement Center
- Bandy, W.T., Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies
- Better Health, Vanderbilt Center for
- Bill Wilkerson Center
- Biomathematics Study Group
- Biomedical Ethics and Society, Center for
- Biomedical Sciences, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in the
- Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center
- Bone Biology, Center for
- Brain Institute
- Breast Center
- Burn Center
- Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership for the Professions
- Career Center
- Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender and Sexuality
- Chemical Biology, Vanderbilt Institute of
- Child Development, Center for
- Classroom Organization and Management Program
- Clinical Nutrition Research Unit
- Clinical Research Center
- Clinical Toxicology, Center for
- Clinical Trials Center
- Cognitive Robotics Laboratory
- Community Outreach Partnership Center
- Community Studies, Center for
- Comprehensive Care Center
- Constructive Approximation, Center for
- Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy
- Diabetes Research and Training Center
- Digestive Disease Research Center
- East Asian Studies Program
- eLab (Digital Commerce Research Laboratory)
- English Language Center
- Entrepreneurship Education, Center for
- Entrepreneurship, Owen Center
- Environmental Management Studies, Center for
- Ethics, Center for
- European and German Studies, Max Kade Center for
- Evaluation and Program Improvement, Center for
- Evidence-Based Medicine, Vanderbilt Center for
- Executive Development Institute
- Experiential Learning and Assessment, Center for
- Family-School Partnership Lab
- Financial Markets Research Center
- First Amendment Center
- Free-Electron Laser Center
- Geriatric Evaluation Program
- Global Health, VU Institute for
- Human Genetics Research, Center for
- Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University Institute of
- Informatics Center
- Integrative Biosystems Research and Education, Vanderbilt Institute for
- Integrative & Cognitive Neuroscience, Center for
- Integrative Health, Center for
- Intelligent Robotics Lab
- Intelligent Systems, Center for
- Iris Center for Training Enhancements
- Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development
- Kelly Miller Smith Institute on Black Church Studies
- Lamb Center for Pediatric Research
- Laser Diagnostics and Combustion Group
- Latin American and Iberian Studies, Center for
- Latin American Public Opinion Project
- Law and Business Program
- Law and Economics Ph.D. Program
- Leadership Development Center
- Learning Sciences Institute
- Living State Physics
- Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center
- Mass Spectrometry Research Center
- Matrix Biology, Center for
- Medicine, Health, and Society, Center for
- Molecular Neuroscience, Center for
- Molecular Toxicology, Center in
- Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Vanderbilt Institute of
- Nashville Studies, The Vanderbilt Center for
- Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras, Center for
- Nursing Research, Joint Center for
- Opportunity Development Center
- Peabody Center for Education Policy
- Performance Incentives, National Center on
- Poison Center
- Principals Leadership Academy of Nashville
- Radiation Effects and Reliability Group
- Religion and Culture, Center for the Study of
- Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities
- Science Outreach, Center for
- School Choice, National Center on
- Skin Diseases Research Core Center
- Sleep Disorders Center
- Sloan Center for Internet Retailing
- Software Integrated Systems, Institute for
- Space and Defense Electronics, Institute for
- Space Physiology and Medicine, Center for
- Sponsored Research, Division of
- Sports Medicine Center
- Stem Cell Biology, Vanderbilt Center for
- Structural Biology, Center for
- Susan Gray School
- Talented Youth, Vanderbilt Programs for
- Teaching, Center for
- Tennessee Lions Eye Center
- Transplant Center
- Turner Center for Church Leadership and Congregational Development
- TV News Archive
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
- Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies (VIPPS)
- Vanderbilt George O'Brien Renal Center
- Vanderbilt-Meharry Center For AIDS Research
- Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT Engineering Research Center for Bioengineering Educational Technologies
- Vascular Biology, Center for
- VECTOR (Vanderbilt Engineering Center for Transportation Operations and Research)
- Vision Research Center
- Voice Center
- Women's Center, Margaret Cuninggim
This page is intended to give an overview of the centers, institutes and research groups at the university and medical center. If you would like your group added to the list, please send your center's name, phone number and URL to the Office of University Web Communications.
