Research Centers, Institutes, and Programs

UIUC's vibrant research community is home to a number of research centers, institutes, programs, and initiatives. Our researchers translate insights on problems such as global sustainability, feeding the world, and fighting poverty and disease into innovative products and technologies, policy recommendations with impact, and advances in education and community engagement. The list below is not exhaustive—please send updates to Kristin Tennant.

Research Unit Name Abbv Email Phone Unit URL
Center for Writing Studies CWS cws-programs@illinois.edu 217-333-3251 Website
Center on Health, Aging, and Disability CHAD chad@ahs.illinois.edu 217-333-4965 Website
Child Development Laboratory CDL hcd-cdlprog@mx.uillinois.edu 217-333-2550 Website
Child Speech Research Lab Child SRL child-SRL@illinois.edu 217-300-8336 Website
Children and Family Research Center CFRC danzap@illinois.edu 217-333-5837 Website
Children's Environmental Health Research Center at Illinois ikids-research@mx.uillinois.edu 217-333-5814 Website
Cline Center for Advanced Social Research cline-center@illinois.edu 217-265-7845 Website
Collaborative Learning Lab CoLearnLab mercier@illinois.edu Website
Coordinated Science Laboratory CSL ewhit@illinois.edu 217-333-2511 Website
Crop Science Research and Education Center CSREC 217-244-0851 Website
CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies CyberGIS Center help@cybergis.org Website
CyberSocial Learning Laboratory Website
Data and Informatics Graduate Intern-Traineeship: Materials at the Atomic Scale DIGI-MAT htj@illinois.edu Website
Development in Neurogenetic Disabilities Lab DND thedndlab@illinois.edu 217-265-8043 Website
Disability Participation & Quality of Life Research Laboratory DPQL dpqol-lab@illinois.edu (217) 333-4650 Website
Distributed Autonomous Systems Laboratory DASLAB girishc@illinois.edu Website
Diversity Research Laboratory stodolsk@illinois.edu (217) 244-5644 Website
Division of Animal Resources DAR daradministrators@illinois.edu 217-333-2564 Website
Dixon Springs Agricultural Center DSAC sethridg@illinois.edu Website
Dudley Smith Initiative DSI nmisaac@illinois.edu 217-333-0240 Website
Earth Characterization Center ECC jthomaso@illinois.edu
Embodied and Immersive Technologies Group EmIT emitgroup@education.illinois.edu Website
Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media Institute eDream deannas@ncsa.uiuc.edu 217-244-1996 Website
Energy Farm energyfarm@illinois.edu Website
EPSY@UIUC Evaluation Lab EPSY@UIUC EvaLab hopson@illinois.edu (217) 300-8263 Website
European Union Center EU Center eucenter@illinois.edu 217-265-7515 Website
Exercise Immunology and Microbe Group woods1@illinois.edu Website
Exercise Psychology Lab EPL epl@ahs.Illinois.edu 217-300-4700 Website
Exercise, Technology & Cognition Lab ETC etcresearch@illinois.edu 217-300-7484 Website
Family Resiliency Center FRC dariotis@illinois.edu 217-333-7772 Website