Penn State is a pioneer in facilitating interdisciplinary research through its unique structure of University and college institutes. The broad range of disciplinary expertise encompassed in Agricultural Sciences means our faculty are actively engaged throughout this network, pursuing breakthroughs by forming collaborations that transcend academic boundaries.

Institute for Sustainable Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Science

SAFES, a College of Agricultural Sciences institute affiliated with the Institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE), establishes a novel environment for accelerating solutions to "wicked" landscape-level challenges to agriculture, food, and the environment.

Earth and Environmental Systems Institute

Affiliated with IEE and operating under the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, this institute brings together scientists from across the University to engage in transdisciplinary research related to our environment and how humans interact within it.

Ecology Institute

This intercollege Huck institute of faculty, students, postdocs, and partners focuses on resilience and adaptation, ecosystem services, ecology at the interface, rapid evolutionary change, and ecological functions.

Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences

The College of Agricultural Sciences is among eight colleges participating in this University-wide institute, which includes a network of institutes and centers of excellence, instrumentation facilities, and advanced graduate programs.

Institute for Computational and Data Sciences

ICDS enables and supports the diverse computational and data science research taking place throughout Penn State.

Institutes of Energy and the Environment

Faculty, staff, and students from the College of Agricultural Sciences lead and contribute to the important work of this University-wide institute in advancing the University's energy and environmental research missions.

Materials Research Institute

MRI is a University-wide institute that is a catalyst for multidisciplinary education and innovation in materials.

Penn State Cancer Institute

The Penn State Cancer Institute is the focal point for all cancer-related investigators and connects discovery to practices and population sciences.

Penn State Law

The Center for Agricultural and Shale Law operates under Penn State Law and conducts agricultural and shale law research and outreach activities with a specific focus on those issues of importance in Pennsylvania.

Plant Institute

This cross-disciplinary Huck institute connects researchers from diverse fields to study all aspects of plants, including evolutionary histories, genetics, and physical structures, as well as the other organisms that interact with them.

Population Research Institute

A multidisciplinary institute with over 100 faculty researchers across the University and organized in the Social Science Research Institute to advance the scientific understanding of human population dynamics and processes.

Rock Ethics Institute

Affiliated with IEE and operating under the College of the Liberal Arts, this multidisciplinary and intercollege institute promotes engaged ethics research, ethical leadership, and literacy within Penn State, and public outreach to address today's moral challenges.

Social Science Research Institute

This University-wide institute addresses critical human and social problems at the local, national, and international levels by bringing together researchers from different disciplines.

Office for Research and Graduate Education

Address

217 Agricultural Administration Building
University Park, PA 16802-2600

Office for Research and Graduate Education

Address

217 Agricultural Administration Building
University Park, PA 16802-2600