A Sampling of Northeastern Research Centers and Institutes

• Affective Science Institute
• Antimicrobial Discovery Center (ADC)
• Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis
• Center for Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats (ALERT)*‡
  - DHS Center of Excellence
• Center for Complex Network Research (CCNR)
• Center for Drug Discovery (CDD)
• Center for Emerging Markets
• Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research
• Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN)*
  - NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center
• Center on Population Health and Health Disparities (CPHHD)*‡
  - National Institutes of Health Center
• Center for Translational Cancer Nanomedicine (CTCN)*‡
  - Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence
• Center for Translational NeuroImaging (CTNI)
• Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks (CURENT)*
• Center for Versatile Onboard Traffic Embedded Roaming Sensors (VOTERS)
  - NIST Technology Innovation Center
• Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy (CURP)
• Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS)*
  - NSF Engineering Research Center
• Institute for Global Innovation Management
• Institute for Information Assurance (IIA)*‡
  - NSA Center of Excellence in Information Assurance Research (cybersecurity)
• Institute on Urban Health Research (IUHR)
• Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Programs (IGERT)
  - Nanomedicine, Science, and Technology, 2005, NSF and NCI
  - Intelligent Diagnostics for Aging Civil Infrastructure Systems, 2007, NSF
• Marine Science Center (MSC)
• New England Healthcare Systems Engineering Partnership (NEHCEP)
  - VHA Veterans Engineering Resource Center*
• Northeastern University Center for Renewable Energy Technology (NUCRET)

*National Research Center

‡Center of Excellence

Examples of Recent Grants

• $13.8 million from the National Institutes of Health for the Center for Translational Cancer Nanomedicine
• $12.6 million renewal from the National Science Foundation for the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center: The Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing
• $10.2 million from the National Institutes of Health to study heart disease among Puerto Ricans living in the United States (Center for Population Health and Health Disparities—CPHHD)
• $9.9 million from the National Institutes of Health to investigate links between preterm births and environmental contaminants (Puerto Rico Testsite for Exploring Environmental Contaminant Threats—PRoTECT)
• $9 million from the Department of Homeland Security to detect explosives (Center for Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats—ALERT)
• $8.4 million grant from the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense to NUCRET for renewable-energy research
• $8 million from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to embed systems engineering improvement methods into healthcare organizations (NEHCEP)

Faculty Distinctions

• Six faculty members in the national academies
• Five faculty members were recognized with 2012 National Science Foundation CAREER awards, the NSF’s top award for promising junior faculty
• Faculty have received 93 research awards of $1 million or more since 2006 

Student Research Highlights

• One hundred and nineteen undergraduates and 234 graduate students presented at RISE:2012 (Research, Innovation and Scholarship Expo).
• Students won six competitive international and national awards for research, including three National Science Foundation Fellowships, two Fulbright Scholarships, and a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
• Northeastern’s student-run venture accelerator, IDEA, had 75 active ventures in its 2011–2012 portfolio