Northeastern's research centers and institutes focus on interdisciplinary and translational research that meets societal needs in a variety of subject areas, including:
- Business
- Computer and Information Sciences
- Engineering and Technology
- Health Sciences
- Humanities and Arts
- Law
- Physical and Life Sciences
- Social Sciences
The University's research support facilities provide the technology that faculty and students need to pursue their scientific and scholarly endeavors.
Alphabetical List of Research Centers and Institutes
- Advanced Scientific Computation Center (ASCC)
- Affective Science Institute (ASI)
- Antimicrobial Discovery Center
- Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis
- Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict
- Center for Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats (ALERT)
- Center for Communications and Digital Signal Processing (CDSP)
- Center for Community Health Education, Research and Service (CCHERS)
- Center for Complex Network Research (CCNR)
- Center for Criminal Justice Policy Research
- Center for Drug Discovery
- Center for Family Business
- Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research
- Center for High Rate Nanomanufacturing
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems (CIRCS)
- Center for Labor Market Studies
- Center for Microcontamination Control (CMC)
- Center for Microwave Magnetic Materials and Integrated Circuits (CM3IC)
- Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine
- Center for Population Health and Health Disparities (CPHHD) – Boston Puerto Rican Health Study
- Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS)
- Center for Translational Cancer Nanomedicine (CTCN)
- Center for Translational NeuroImaging (CTNI)
- Dietary Assessment Center
- Domestic Violence Institute (DVI)
- Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy
- Electronic Materials Research Institute (eMRI)
- George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security
- Health and Law Program
- Humanities Center
- Institute for Global Innovation Management (IGIM)
- Institute for Information Assurance
- Institute for Security and Public Policy
- Institute on Race and Justice
- Institute on Urban Health Research (IUHR)
- Marine Science Center (MSC)
- National Education and Research Center for Outcomes Assessment in Health Care (NERCOA)
- New England Healthcare Systems Engineering Partnership (NEHCEP)
- New England Inflammation and Tissue Protection Institute
- Northeastern University Center for Renewable Energy Technology (NUCRET)
- Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI)
- Puerto Rico Testsite for Exploring Contamination Threats (PROTECT)
- Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute
- Sport in Society
- The Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative (NEJRC)