Institutes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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