Labs, programs, and centers
Much of the groundbreaking work that takes place at MIT can’t be contained within one discipline, or even one School.
Here, faculty and students from diverse fields work together in interdisciplinary laboratories, programs, and centers that tap the collaborative expertise of scholars across the Institute. Some programs, in fact, involve one or more institutions completely outside of MIT. Like the Schools, these programs have unique and important funding needs. And, also like the Schools, each makes exceptional contributions—to the Institute, and to the world.
Gifts in support of MIT’s labs, programs, and centers help advance the Institute’s mission of serving the nation and the world by furthering research and education in key areas. Here’s a comprehensive list (in part from MIT Facts 2009):
- Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
- Biotechnology Process Engineering Center
- Broad Institute
- Cambridge-MIT Institute
- Center for Advanced Visual Studies
- Center for Archaeological Materials
- Center for Biomedical Engineering
- Center for Biomedical Innovation
- Center for Bits and Atoms/Fabrication Lab
- Center for Collective Intelligence
- Center for Computational Research in Economics and Management Science
- Center for Coordination Science
- Center for Educational Computing Initiatives
- Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
- Center for Environmental Health Sciences
- Center for Global Change Science
- Center for Information Systems Research
- Center for International Studies
- Center for Materials Science and Engineering
- Center for Real Estate
- Center for Reflective Community Practice
- Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development
- Center for Transportation and Logistics
- Clinical Research Center
- Commercial Real Estate Data Lab
- Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
- Division of Comparative Medicine
- Edgerton Center
- Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory
- Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST)
- Haystack Observatory
- Information Technologies Group
- Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
- Institute for Work and Employment Research
- Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
- Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
- Knight Science Journalism Fellows Program
- Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
- Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems
- Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
- Laboratory for Financial Engineering
- Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
- Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity
- Laboratory for Nuclear Science
- Lincoln Laboratory
- Man Vehicle Laboratory
- Materials Processing Center
- McGovern Institute for Brain Research
- Media Laboratory
- Microsystems Technology Laboratories
- MIT Center for Digital Business
- MIT Design Lab
- MIT Entrepreneurship Center
- MIT-USGS Science Impact Collaborative (MUSIC)
- Nuclear Reactor Laboratory
- Office of Professional Education Programs
- Operations Research Center
- Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
- Plasma Science and Fusion Center
- Productivity from Information Technology Initiative
- Program in Polymer Science and Technology
- Program in Women’s and Gender Studies
- Program on Human Rights and Justice
- Program on the Pharmaceutical Industry
- Research Laboratory of Electronics
- Sea Grant College Program
- Singapore-MIT Alliance
- Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies
- Spectroscopy Laboratory
- System Dynamics Group
- Teacher Education Program
- Technology and Development Program
- Technology and Policy Program (TPP)
- Visual Arts Program
- Whitaker College of Health Sciences and Technology
- Women’s and Gender Studies Program
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