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 Research Centers and Institutes

 The university is home to thirty distinguished research centers and institutes that sponsor research, teaching and service. Their extensive range reflects the depth and breadth of serious inquiry by faculty, students and research associates at UMBC.

Campus-wide Centers and Institutes
Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship
Center for the Advanced Studies in Photonics Research (CASPR)
Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education (CUERE)
Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT)
Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center (GEST)
The Hilltop Institute (formerly the Center for Health Program Development and Management or CHPDM)
Imaging Research Center (IRC)
Institute for Global Electronic Commerce (IGEC)
Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET)
Shriver Center

Independent Centers and Institutes
Howard Hughes Medical Institute at UMBC (HHMI)

Departmental Centers and Institutes
Please visit the sponsoring department web site as noted for centers and institutes without individual web sites.
Center for Advanced Sensor Technology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Center for Aging Studies, Erickon School of Aging Studies
Center for Architectures for Data-Driven Information Processing (CADIP)
Center for Art and Visual Culture (CAVC)
Center for Biological Sciences Archives (CBSA)
Center for Emergency Education and Disaster Response (CEEDR), Department of Emergency Health Services
Center for History Education (CHE)
Center for Information Security and Assurance (CISA)
Center for Language Initiatives (CLI)
Center on Research and Teaching in Social Work
Fiber Optics Communication Institute (FOCI)
Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX), Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center
Institute for Language and Information Technologies (ILIT)
Interactive Systems Research Center (ISRC)
Joint Center for Astrophysics (JCA)
Laboratory for Healthcare Informatics (LHI)
Martha Ross Center for Oral History
Maryland Center for Telecommunications Research (MCTR)
Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (MIPAR)
National Center for the Study of Elections
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