WGGP promotes the study of human development in international settings. Because such development has gender, cultural, economic, legal, moral, political, social, and technological dimensions, we emphasize scholarly activities that advance our understanding of how resource  inequalities and gender equity affect individual and community capabilities.

Since its founding in 1981, the Unit for Criticism has promoted the study of theory and shaped major debates about poststructuralism, Marxism, cultural studies, feminism, and postcolonial theory.

TEC was created in 2000 as a center in the university and became a "Permanent Center" in 2007.

SONIC is a multi-university research center focusing on the design of robust, energy efficient, and intelligent computing platforms using emerging nanoscale devices, which are inspired by the information processing principles found in communication and biological systems.

SEDAC is an applied research program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Our mission is to decrease the energy footprint of the State of Illinois.

Founded in 1959, REEEC serves as an intellectual and institutional center for members of the university community and the public interested in Eastern Europe, Russia, and the newly independent states of Eurasia. Devoted to promoting and disseminating knowledge about the region, the center supports undergraduate and postgraduate training programs and seeks to foster a lively intellectual life through conferences, lectures, colloquia, visiting scholars, faculty and graduate student seminars and study groups, exhibits, films, and social activities.

RailTEC is a global leader in practical and theoretical research advancing the field in a broad range of important and timely railroad and rail transit engineering and transportation topics.

PCI provides an incubation and growth mechanism for new interdisciplinary centers and initiatives that will benefit from parallel computing; by expanding access to computing resources and infrastructure; by teaching critical skills; by identifying more opportunities for funding; and by helping to establish key external partnerships.

The mission of the Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL) is to use research and evaluation methods to improve policies, programs, and practices that enhance community college education and the transition to college for diverse learners at the state, national, and international levels.