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Research & Innovation

Office of the Vice President for Research & Innovation (OVPRI)

Core Facilities and Multidisciplinary Research Centers

Our core facilities and research centers support a unified, multidisciplinary research & innovation ecosystem across Cornell’s Ithaca, Geneva, and New York City campuses.

Go to List of all Cornell Centers

Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Regional Hub Network – Mid-Atlantic

The AFRL Mid-Atlantic Hub Network helps identify barrier-breaking innovations for the Air Force and Space Force and together advances them towards commercialization leveraging regional academic, government, corporate, startup, and venture members, programs and assets.


Center for Advanced Computing

The Center for Advanced Computing is a core facility that serves the computational and data analysis needs of Cornell scientists, researchers, and scholars. The center provides a broad range of professional research computing services, including high-performance computing services, cloud computing services, and technology consulting tailored to individual research needs.


Center for Alkaline-based Energy Solutions (CABES)

CABES is a collaborative university and national lab research center that is advancing the science of energy conversion, storage, and application through an understanding of the fundamental factors governing electrochemical energy conversion in alkaline media. CABES is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science as one of the Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs).


Center for Applied Mathematics (CAM)

The Center for Applied Mathematics offers a PhD in applied math, a minor in applied math, and a postdoc program. Center faculty, drawn from 14 departments across four colleges, have a wide range of interests including mathematical biology and physics, probability theory, nonlinear dynamics, numerical analysis, network theory, optimization, mathematical finance, signal processing, mathematical physics, and game theory.


Center for Bright Beams

The Center for Bright Beams is pursuing the understanding needed to increase the intensity of beams of charged particles while decreasing the cost of key accelerator technologies, thereby transforming the brightness of beams available to science, medicine, and industry.

 A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center, the Center for Bright Beams joins researchers from diverse fields at eight universities and three national labs.


Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society (CDSES)

The Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society aims to unify Cornell programs and curricula in data science, with an initial emphasis on questions grounded in data that are generated by human activity.


Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS)

Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems is a transdisciplinary center for developing groundbreaking tools to listen and talk to plants and the associated organisms that make up their microbiomes. The center’s multi-institutional team of experts seeks to create an Internet of Living Things (IoLT) that will revolutionize crop performance in the field, with long-term impacts on sustainability, productivity, and profitability.


Center for Vertebrate Genomics (CVG)

Center for Vertebrate Genomics enhances research and education in vertebrate genetics and functional genomics at Cornell. The center administers scholarships for trainees, seed funding for faculty research projects, travel funds, monthly seminars, an annual symposium, and other programs.


Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability

The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability is the hub of collaborative sustainability research at Cornell University. The center’s funding and programming accelerate groundbreaking research within and across all of Cornell’s colleges and schools.


Cornell Center for Antimicrobial Resistance Research & Education

The Cornell Center for Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Education facilitates development of transformative, multidisciplinary solutions to the problem of antimicrobial resistance by uniting epidemiologists, basic and clinical microbiologists, chemical biologists, immunologists, sociologists, economists, and communication experts across Cornell’s Ithaca and New York City campuses.


Cornell Center for Astrophysics & Planetary Science (CCAPS)

The Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science (CCAPS) fosters cooperative research among astronomers, engineers, geologists, and other researchers with specialties relevant to space sciences.


Cornell Center for Innovative Proteomics

The Cornell Center for Innovative Proteomics aims to establish a cross-campus community of proteomics labs and users with the goal of improving collaborations.


Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR)

The Cornell Center for Materials Research is a core user facility that supports interdisciplinary materials research and development. Open to researchers within and beyond Cornell who are performing non-classified research, CCMR offers world-class materials analysis and processing equipment overseen by a staff of experts.


Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS)

The Cornell Center for Social Sciences accelerates, enhances, and amplifies social sciences research at Cornell by providing advanced computing and other research infrastructure, seeding grants and fellowships, supporting quantitative and qualitative research, and building a diverse and inclusive community of scholars.


Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS)

The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) is a high-intensity x-ray source primarily supported by the National Science Foundation, Air Force Research Lab, National Institutes of Health, and New York State. A national user facility, CHESS provides state-of-the-art synchrotron radiation facilities for research in all fields of science and engineering.


Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA)

The Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA) is a dynamic community of researchers, farmers, industry partners, and other stakeholders working to advance more sustainable agriculture and food systems. The center’s cross-disciplinary approach integrates fundamental discoveries across the life sciences, engineering, computing, and social sciences.


Cornell Institute of Biotechnology (Biotech)

Cornell Institute of Biotechnology promotes scientific discovery, innovation, and commercialization in the field of biotechnology. The center maintains the Biotechnology Resource Center (BRC), a core user facility that serves over 600 principal investigators each year. The Cornell CAT, housed at the center, supports academic–New York State industry collaborations to develop life science­–technologies products aimed for the market.


Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences & Education (CLASSE)

CLASSE is a federation of research centers that leverage shared scientific, technical, and administrative expertise and infrastructure to advance the frontiers of beam science. CLASSE’s vision is to understand the behavior of matter and fields at all scales of distance and time to sustainably advance science and benefit society.


Cornell ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center

The Cornell ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center is a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research center that seeks to understand the biological basis of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and develop a treatment.


Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF)

The Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF) is a core user facility for micro- and nanofabrication. A member of the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI), CNF is dedicated to providing access to nanotechnology infrastructure and expertise. Projects range from pure university research to product development for small and large companies. World-class equipment and flexible policies allow CNF to undertake projects that would not be possible in many other nanofabrication environments.


Cornell Reproductive Sciences Center (CoRe)

The Cornell Reproductive Sciences Center investigates the fundamental biology of the reproductive system as it pertains to fertility, health and nutrition, pregnancy, and early childhood development.


Kavli Institute at Cornell

The Kavli Institute at Cornell is devoted to the development and utilization of next-generation tools, methodologies, and materials for exploring the nanoscale world. Open to all members of the Cornell nanoscience community, the institute funds small, innovative teams to develop cross-cutting approaches to science at the boundaries of nanoscale imaging, manipulation, and control. 


Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics (LASSP)

The Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics is a multidisciplinary center focused on the fields of condensed matter, biological physics, and optics. Current research spans quantum materials, spintronics, soft matter, biophysics, low-temperature physics, ultracold atoms, x-ray physics, and quantum information. 


PORTENT Center for Point of Care Technologies for Nutrition, Infection and Cancer for Global Health

The PORTENT Center aims to advance promising point-of-care diagnostics through technology development, human validation, user and developer training and rotations, and commercialization. The center will be enabled by a one-of-a-kind international network across four continents, enabling the validation of technologies on a global range of populations and with a unique set of users.


Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is the world’s leading archive of public opinion survey data, with data ranging from the 1930s, when survey research was in its infancy, to the present. The center collects, preserves, and disseminates public opinion data; serves as a resource to help improve the practice of survey research; and broadens the understanding of public opinion through the use of survey data in the United States and around the world.


Semiconductor Research: Superior Energy-Efficient Materials and Devices (SUPREME/JUMP)

The SUPeRior Energy-efficient Materials and dEvices (SUPREME) Center is a Cornell-led multi-institutional research center to accelerate development of energy-efficient semiconductor materials and revolutionary new approaches for microelectronics systems. SUPREME is one of seven centers funded by the Semiconductor Research Corporation’s JUMP 2.0 consortium.


Stem Cell Program

The Stem Cell Program, which consists of more than 30 laboratories engaged in stem cell research at Cornell, promotes synergistic interactions among investigators, supports development of essential core facilities, and facilitates training and educational activities.


Weill Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology

The Weill Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology stimulates new discoveries in cell biology research that can be translated into medical advances that improve human health. In addition to cutting-edge research, the institute creates opportunities for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, organizes symposia, and invites visiting scientists to share their expertise and contribute to graduate and undergraduate courses that help to provide the Cornell community with the latest ideas and technologies.