Research Centers
Promoting and Supporting Research – New American University in Action
More than 90 Arizona State University research centers are actively engaged in discovery, ever expanding the boundaries of their disciplines. ASU’s New American University vision—now a reality—puts a premium on use-inspired research that’s transforming society. From sustainability to space exploration, ASU is a university on the move—one that is setting a new standard for research excellence.
Four research centers report to the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Affairs: The Flexible Display Center, the Arizona Institute for Nano-Electronics (AINE); The Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict; The Institute for Computing, Information Sciences and Engineering (InCISE). They are part of a larger ASU community of science, committed to research, discovery and impact.
Flexible Display Center
The Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University (ASU) is a university, industry, government collaborative venture designed to advance full color flexible display technology and flexible display manufacturing to the brink of commercialization. The principal goal of the FDC is to develop high performance, commercially-viable, conformal and flexible displays that are lightweight, rugged, low power, and low cost.
Arizona Institute for Nano-Electronics
The Arizona Institute for Nano-Electronics (AINE) is a coordinated network of research centers focused on ASU research in nanoelectronics, including nanophotonics, molecular electronics, nanoionics and computational nanoscience. AINE’s goal is to strongly impact future technology areas related to ultra-low power/ultra-high speed electronics, and hybrid biomolecular electronics at the interface between the biological and electronics worlds.
With the unique capabilities of the Center for Solid State Electronics Research (CSSER), the LeRoy Eyring Center for Solid State Sciences (LE-CSSS), and the BioDesign Institute, as well as existing strengths in current faculty research programs, AINE is well positioned to meet these goals.
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Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict
The Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University promotes interdisciplinary research and education on the dynamics of religion and conflict with the aim of advancing knowledge, seeking solutions and informing policy. By serving as a research hub that fosters exchange and collaboration across the university as well as with its broader publics—local, national, and global—the Center fosters innovative and engaged thinking on matters of enormous importance to us all.
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Institute for Computing, Information Sciences and Engineering
The Institute for Computing, Information Sciences and Engineering (InCISE) fosters computer science and applications of data acquisition, analysis, and management, security, modeling, visualization, and interpretation in interdisciplinary research, education and entrepreneurship. InCISE has successfully fostered inter and trans disciplinary research using this informatics and computer science foundation, and has led to creation of a new School of Computing and Informatics, composed of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics Departments and a new program in Informatics. InCISE researchers and investments produced a Return on Investment (ROI) of 2.27 in FY 07, and generated over $1M in indirect cost from $2.5M Awards.
The research foci of the new School of Computing and Informatics align well with the mission of InCISE and its efforts to leverage selective investments in collaborative, interdisciplinary projects that build partnerships between researchers, improve visibility with funding agencies, and produce successful larger scale collaborative proposals that would not be possible using traditional approaches which emphasize individual researchers.
Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director of the School of Computing and Informatics and chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, leads InCISE as Director, with Jeremy Rowe of the School of Computing and Informatics as Associate Director. InCISE and SCI will continue to evolve and to identify, promote and enable innovative collaborations to take on new challenges, and meet the demands of research collaborators and our communities.
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For a full list of ASU Approved Centers and Institutes, click here.