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Centers and Institutes

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Our land-grant mission drives us to share our innovative research and scholarly discoveries, and LAS faculty, among the brightest in the world, collaborate with scientist and scholars around the world.

Notable centers led by LAS faculty

  • Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics
  • Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities
  • Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence
  • Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology
  • Center for the Advancement of Topological Semimetals
  • Dependable Data-Driven Discovery
  • Institute for Cooperative Upcycling of Plastics

Affiliated centers/institutes

  • Ames Laboratory of the USDoE
  • Center for Agricultural and Rural Development
  • Center for Cybersecurity Innovation and Outreach
  • Center for Nondestructive Evaluation
  • Center for Wireless Communications and Innovation
  • Central Plains Federal Statistics Data Center
  • Crop Bioengineering Center
  • Electric Power Research Center
  • Iowa Space Grant Consortium
  • ISU Research Park
  • Laurence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics & Biological Statistics
  • Nanovaccine Institute
  • Plant Sciences Institute
  • Translational AI Center
  • Virtual Reality Applications Center
  • Water Resources Research Institute
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