:: Institutes and Centers
Institutes and Centers
UMass Boston boasts more than 30 interdisciplinary research organizations that bring faculty and students together from across the university to pursue research, teaching, and service on broad scholarly and social topics:
The following freestanding institutes and centers are administered by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research:
- Center for Social Development and Education
- Center for Survey Research
- Institute for Asian American Studies
- Institute for Community Inclusion
- Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution
- Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy
- Urban Harbors Institute
- William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture
- William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences
The following institutes and centers are administered by their college or department:
- Adult Literacy Resource Institute
- Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research
- Center for Coastal Environmental Sensing Networks
- Center for Democracy and Development
- Center for Green Chemistry
- Center for Public Management
- Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities After Disasters
- Center for Social Policy
- Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy
- Center of Science and Mathematics in Context
- Center on Media and Society
- Gerontology Institute
- Labor Resource Institute
- New England Resource Center for Higher Education
- Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
- Pension Action Center
- Research Center for Urban Cultural History
- Small Business Development Center & Minority Business Center
Policies and processes concerning the establishment of institutes and centers
- University of Massachusetts Boston Procedural Guidelines for the Establishment of Institutes
- University of Massachusetts Policy on Centers and Institutes
- University of Massachusetts Boston Policy on Institutes and Centers