The Postsecondary Education Research & Implementation Institute (PERI²) brings together an interdisciplinary team of leaders from across UCI, including the Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning and the School of Education, among others, with the aim of supporting and conducting research that fosters equitable student success. To meet its goals, PERI² embraces…

The UCI Center for Neurotherapeutics brings together researchers from the fields of biomedicine and the physical sciences and engineering in order to facilitate the integration of physical science expertise into ongoing efforts in translational neuroscience and neurotherapeutics, with the ultimate goal of fostering drug development.

The EHRC, which is directed by Art History Chair James Nisbet, brings together years of environmental humanities research at UCI, including the work of the Environmental Humanities Research Cluster. Established in 2021 and co-directed by Nisbet and Visual Studies Ph.D. student Aaron Katzeman, the cluster organized workshops and shared relevant research from faculty across disciplines…

C-LAB seeks to foster research communities that are grounded in addressing issues related to race, Indigeneity and migration. The center intends to do so by identifying research questions, exploring research methodologies and experimenting with diverse publication dissemination methods that bring attention to social injustice and work towards social justice.

The UCI Clean Energy Institute is a conglomerate of faculty engineers building upon the excellent UCI programs and centers in electrochemistry, national fuel cell research, mobility and connectivity, and “solutions that scale” initiatives. With the support of the UCI Vice Chancellor for Research, as innovative and seasoned engineers, we are developing strategic plans to launch…

The UCI Center for Aging Research in Down Syndrome (CFAR-DS) is a multidisciplinary academic research center that supports innovative clinical and biomedical research and provides education in collaboration with researchers, families, and self-advocates to improve the quality of life for aging people with Down Syndrome.

The Center for Theoretical Behavioral Sciences at UCI focuses on theories. This plan is motivated by the observation that the natural sciences in general, and social sciences in particular, critically depend on theories. Experiments move science forward during the periods of what Thomas Kuhn called “normal science”. But the most significant conceptual steps call for…

The Air Pollution Health Effects Laboratory (APHEL) was established with California Air Resources Board (ARB) funds in 1973 on the U.C. Irvine North Campus under the direction of Robert F. Phalen, PhD to study the health effects of current and projected air pollutants inhaled by California populations. The initial purpose of the laboratory was to…

Mission To build research, educational and community programs that support health equity and environmental justice. Vision An environmentally and socially just society where black and historically marginalized communities thrive with health equity.