Provides a wide range of testing programs for soils, plants, biosolids and other agricultural materials. The fee-based programs are available to all University faculty and staff as well as the general public.

Focused on determining the effects of ozone on the health and productivity of forest and native plant species indigenous to the eastern United States and within several countries of Europe.

Provides information about The American Journal of Distance Education, The Distance Education Online Symposium (DEOS), The Research Monograph Series, and other publications and information about America's oldest (1987) and principal center of research and scholarship about distance education.

A nationally recognized veterinary diagnostic laboratory committed to the health of animals, that serves as a central reference facility for the approximately 1,200 veterinarians and animal owners that currently use the service.

As a university center of excellence in naval science and technologies, with preeminence in undersea missions and related areas, the Applied Research Laboratory provides solutions to problems in national security, economic competitiveness, and quality of life.

As the center for advanced study in the arts and humanities at the Penn State, established in 1966 to allow research faculty to easily cross college and departmental lines in response to innovative ideas and proposals.

A member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI), whose primary mission is to conduct multidisciplinary research and education in Astrobiology.

As a part of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, studies stratigraphy, subsurface fluid flow, sediment transport and stratigraphic modeling, especially with the use of seismic and well data.

Applies biomechanical principles to motor control problems, and understands how muscle properties dictate the coordination of movement.

A partnership between the University and corporate members to meet the challenges of productivity, competitiveness, and safety in food processing and manufacturing.

As an extension of the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, serves as a site for undergradutate training and education through observational projects and classroom participation; and for faculty and student research on child development, early childhood education, and parenting.

Researches developmental processes, factors that promote and compromise child and family well-being, and the design and evaluation of applied intervention strategies. Also includes innovative teaching and service-outreach methods, and efforts to influence and evaluate the impact of social policies.

Missioned to serve confectionery manufacturers and consumers by conducting research pertinent to the large and dynamic segment of Pennsylvania's food system.

An interdisciplinary and intercollege component of the Penn State Department of Electrical Engineering focused on studying electromagnetic phenomena either directly or as tools for probing the atmosphere and ionosphere.

Research spans a broad range of topics, such as autonomous navigation, automated visual inspection, document image analysis, human-computer interface systems, medical imaging and visualization, object recognition, telerobotics, and visual information management.

Created to conduct, facilitate, and coordinate interdisciplinary research, monitoring, and training regarding wetlands and related resources, with an emphasis in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern states.

A community of College of Earth and Mineral Sciences faculty members, staff, and students, working together to improve the quality and accessibility of EMS education through the imaginative use of networked computing.

Brings together the Departments of Geosciences, Meteorology, Geography, and Energy, Environmental, and Mineral Economics to search for links between the Earth's physical processes and past and future global change.

Promotes research by academics and practitioners on various aspects of eBusiness, with emphasis on governance and execution issues.

Current list of projects include computational EM, electronic package modeling, EM compatibility, communication antennas and systems, wideband antennas, frequency selective surfaces, and radar absorbing coatings.

A leading research and development organization in the broad area of energy science and engineering, that also serves the University's commitment in this field to the Commonwealth and to the nation.

Formed in 1998 to promote interaction among faculty and students with the diverse expertise needed to address the environmental issues currently facing the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.

Created to increase the visibility of the University's environmental research, education, and outreach and to address current needs and provide new opportunities for faculty and students in interdisciplinary environmental research.

Devoted to providing appropriate research and information to the public regarding foot and mouth disease, hoping in keeping the disease out of the United States as it has been since 1929.

In addition to providing site-specific conditions for research, the facility increases opportunities for growers, consultants, consumers, and students to observe experiments and to consult with scientists.

Located at the University Park campus, functions as a reference center by accepting diagnostic cultures for characterization from outside sources.

Provides personnel support and facilities for investigator initiated peer-reviewed research with human subjects. Objected to facilitate the transfer of basic medical knowledge to the clinical arena, to elucidate pathogenic mechanisms of disease, and to develop strategies for health promotion and disease prevention.

As a part of the Department of Geosciences, takes an interdisciplinary approach to attacking some of the research problems in tectonics, seismology, lithospheric deformation and dynamics, and plate tectonics.

Strives to advance the study of aging sciences; stimulate communication among scholars of different disciplines and among others; promote development of courses in adult development and aging; and foster applied research that improves the quality of life and welfare.

A innovative center of excellence designed to expand student access to University geography via distance education, promote active learning in geography courses, and foster outreach efforts to all of our constituents.

Provides communities with education and technical assistance as they seek design solutions related to land use and transportation, community and economic development, the environment and quality of life.

Designed to educate science and engineering students in high performance computing with special emphases on parallel computers, system architecture, matrix computation, object-oriented programming, and others.

Founded in 1986 at the University of Illinois, but moved to Penn State in the Department of Landscape Architecture in Fall 2000.

Current hot topics include early childhood training, study and prevention of school violence, principles and standards for school mathematics, and curriculum integration linkages.

Assists companies in identifying and accessing Penn State faculty expertise and research centers, and works to foster University-industry research partnerships. Personal attention is given to company representatives to assess their technical needs.

Envisions to team with industrial partners to generate solutions to current and future technical challenges in the transmission, storage, transformation, switching and networking of digital information.

Facilitates University collaborations with business and government, helps entrepreneurs bring ideas to the market place, and allows easy access to faculty researchers, state-of-the-art laboratory facilities, and undergraduate and graduate students.

Extends a national investment in applied materials research at Penn State through an engineering focus on product and process development for new materials and applications of sintering.

Founded in 1999, the IST Solutions Institute was created as one source of expertise for issues that range from workforce development to learning in the e-classroom, career planning to policy making.

A unique facility for research on reproduction in farm animals through well-equipped laboratories for biochemistry, molecular biology, cell physiology, histology, cell culture and cryobiology.

Specializes in the use of geographic information systems (GIS) and related advanced information system technologies for environmental assessment and land management.

The Consortium is dedicated to enhancing the University's ability to prepare students for tomorrow, strengthening research in the life sciences, encouraging research alliances across disciplinary boundaries and developing new approaches to the application of basic science in business.

Established to coordinate activities and provide leadership for interdisciplinary materials research throughout the University and to acts as a resource about materials and a gateway to the materials faculty and facilities.

Assembles a team of researchers to capitalize recent advances in the synthesis of novel ordered porous hosts to understand the role of confinement on the behavior of selected materials.

Dedicated to conducting empirical research on the psychological effects of media content, form, and technology.

Promotes research and study in the European Middle Ages across different departments and colleges through conferences, symposia, colloquia, and publications.

Created as expansion of the existing molecular toxicology program in the Life Sciences Consortium to include a number of related ongoing research programs across various colleges at Penn State.

Created to research and provide access to various computer applications online, such as NetWeaver, FIAM, and others.

Spans many areas in the general field of imaging science: digital image processing, computer vision, scientific visualization, and virtual reality. Particularly driven by problems in high-resolution 3D medical image processing.

Nationally and internationally recognized for its basic and mission-directed research in air pollution, environmental stress, expert systems, Fusarium systematics, mushroom science, and root biology.

A professionally-staffed Class-10 cleanroom facility providing hands-on training and use to both students and non-students, offering expertise in top-down and bottom-up nanofabrication, and providing a full range of processing capabilities for substrates.

Primary missions are research, teaching, service and graduate education in the physiological sciences. Ongoing research involves thermoregulation, reproductive physiology, glucose and insulin interactions, cytokine physiology, protein accretion, and regulation of muscle contraction.

One of four regional rural development centers in the nation contributing to the well-being of small towns and rural communities, focusing specifically on rural problems of the Northeast region.

A research unit created to conduct interdisciplinary applied and basic research in fish and wildlife management and contribute to graduate education.

Seeks to increase the development and utilization of space resources; encourage training, research, and public service in space-related areas; recruit and train professionals for space-related careers; promote a strong science, math, and technology educational base; and promote opportunities for underrepresented groups.

The Commonwealth's official source of demographic and economic data.

Encourages, organizes, and supports innovative research and training in the population sciences, by providing research and data collection, graduate and postdoctoral training, core services, and publications and events.

Dedicated on May 19, 1994, the $6 million center consists of six buildings occupying about 50,000 square feet. These include Research, Meat Bird, Pullet, Cage Layer and Market Turkey, Breeder, and Processing buildings.

Aims to promote the well-being of children and youth and to reduce the prevalence of high-risk behaviors and poor outcomes in children, families and communities.

With the support and guidance of NASA, established to enhance and broaden the capabilities of America's engineering community to meet the future needs of the propulsion industry.

Responsible for the $507 million-per-year in University research programs, which span many disciplines and are integrated into the academic environment at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

Founded in January 1996 to develop programs focused on advancement of rotorcraft research and education. Includes approximately 30 graduate students and 12 faculty members.

Missioned to promote research encompassing the wide range of skills and perspectives that are needed to solve complex social problems.

Provides studies, analyses, and reports relevant to decision-making in higher education, and aids in the formulation of higher education policy. Consistently regarded as one highly rated center for the study of postsecondary education.

Established in 1990 as a response to needs expressed by industry for data and models to treat polymer-solvent behavior. Founded in more than thirty years of experience in the fields of molecular diffusion and thermodynamics of polymer systems.

Established to provide professional and technical assistance to business and government in survey research methodologies. Missioned to serve the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by providing data collection, analysis, technical assistance and training.

Seeks to act as a catalyst for encouraging the interests and enthusiasm of a wide spectrum of students, faculty, administrators, staff, and residents from the surrounding communities with the vision of more ecologically sustainable ways of living.

The Partnership identifies forestry issues & trends, designs & conducts research, develops education & training materials and events, and provides assistance to sustainable forestry stakeholders.