College and Department Research Centers, Labs, and Groups

University and institute-level centers provide support, structure, and organization for faculty-led research efforts that cross disciplinary and college boundaries. With funding and administrative support and oversight provided by the senior vice president for research and innovation, college, or institute, there are hundreds of centers and laboratory groupsto help advance major scholarly objectives involving faculty.

Center Name	Director	Phone
Adult Day Services Center	Ila Schepisi	540-231-3161
Apex Center for Entrepreneurs	Derrick Maggard	540-231-1328
Arlington Innovation Center for Health Research	Mun, Seong	571-858-3201
Bioinspired Science and Technology Center	Rolf Mueller	540-231-6005
Business Leadership Center	Kimberly Carlson	540-231-2604
Center for Advanced Separation Technologies	Roe-Hoan Yoon	540-231-7056
Center for Applied Behavior Systems	Scott Geller	540-231-8145
Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities	Radcliffe, David H.	540-231-7753
Center for Biostatistics and Health Data Science	Alexandra Hanlon	540-526-2264
Center for Business Analytics	Jay Winkler	540-231-9755
Center for Coastal Studies	Robert Weiss	540-231-
Center for Communicating Science at Virginia Tech	Patty Raun	540-231-9301
Center for Design Research	Robert Dunay	540-231-9935
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture	Timothy Luke	540-231-6633
Center for Educational Networks and Impacts (CENI)	Lisa McNair	540-231-8325
Center for Embedded Systems for Critical Applications	Yaling Yang	540-231-5713
Center for emerging Issues in Accounting (Thomas M. Wells and Kathy Dargo)	Sarah Stein	540-231-5881
Center for Emerging, Zoonotic, and Arthropod-borne Pathogens	X. J. Meng, M.D.	540-231-7354
Center for Energy and the Global Environment	Saifur Rahman	571-858-3300
Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems	Lei Zuo	540-231-7270
Center for Enhancement of Engineering Diversity	Bevlee Watford	540-231-3244
Center for Environmental Analytics and Remote Sensing	Valerie Thomas	540-231-7811
Center for European Union, Transatlantic, and Trans-European Space Studies	Yannis Stivachtis	540-231-
Center for Excellence in Global Agricultural Trade (CEGAT)	Jason Grant	540-231-7559
Center for Family Services (NOVA)	April Few-Demo (dept chair)	703-538-8460
Center for Forest Products Business	Henry Quesada	540-231-7107
Center for Geospatial Information Technology	Brandon Herndon	540-231-8490
Center for Geotechnical Practice and Research at Virginia Tech	Adrian Rodriguez-Marek	540-231-5778
Center for Gerontology	Pamela Teaster	540-231-7657
Center for High Performance Environments	James Jones	540-231-7647
Center for High Performance Manufacturing	Matt Earnest	540-231-1260
Center for Human-Computer Interaction	Doug Bowman	540-231-2058
Center for Humanities	Sylvester Johnson	540-231-1981
Center for Infrastructure Delivery Excellence (CIDEx)	Michael Garvin	540-231-7255
Center for Injury Biomechanics	Hardy, Warren	540-231-4314
Center for Innovation in Construction Safety, Health, and Well-Being	Brian Kleiner	540-231-9442
Center for Instructional Tech Solutions in Industry and Education	Ken Potter	540-231-7020
Center for International Research, Education and Development (CIRED)	Brady Deaton	540-231-6338
Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability	Michael Mortimer	571-858-3339
Center for Neutrino Physics	Patrick Huber	540-231-8743
Center for One Health Research	Nammalwar Sriranganathan	540-231-7171
Center for Organizational and Technological Advancement	Lesa Hanlin	540-767-6100
Center for Packaging and Unit Load Design	Laszlo Horvath	540-231-7107
Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention	James Hawdon	540-231-2345
Center for Photonics Technology	Anbo Wang	540-231-4363
Center for Power and Energy	Chen-Ching Liu	540-231-1373
Center for Power Electronics Systems	Dushan Boroyevich	540-231-4381
Center for Preservation and Rehabilitation Technology	Humberto Rodriguez-Camilloni	540-231-5324
Center for Quantum Information Science and Engineering (VTQ)	Sophia Economou	540-231-1929
Center for Race and Social Policy	Wornie Reed	540-231-6107
Center for Real Estate Excellence	Kevin Boyle	540-231-2907
Center for Real Life Kitchen Design	Greg Galford	540-231-6164
Center for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies	Katrina M. Powell	540-231-6501
Center for Renewable Energy and Aerodynamic Testing (CREATe)	William Devenport	540-231-3168
Center for Research and Development in Int'l Education (CRaDIE)	Barbara Lockee	540-231-7020
Center for Smart and Green Civil Systems	Linbing Wang	540-231-5262
Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics	Uwe Tauber	540-231-8998
Center for Space Science and Engineering Research	Scott Bailey	540-231-0459
Center for Statistical Mechanics, Mathematical Physics, and Theoretical Chemistry	George Hagedorn	540-231-6575
Center for Study of Rhetoric in Society	Derek Mueller	540-231-8458
Center for Sustainable Mobility (CSM)	Rakha Hesham	540-231-1505
Center for Sustainable Transportation Infrastucture (CSTI)	Gerardo Flintsch	540-231-1569
Center for Tire Research (CENTIRE)	Saied Taheri	540-231-0032
Center for Transformative Research on Health Behaviors (CTRHB)	Warren Bickel	540-526-2088
Center for Truck and Bus Safety (CTBS)	Hanowski, Rich	540-231-1513
Center for Vehicle Systems and Safety	Mehdi Ahmadian	540-231-7467
Child Development Center for Learning and Research	Karen Gallagher	540-231-6148
Child Study Center	Tom Ollendick	540-231-8276
Commonwealth Center for Aerospace and Propulsion Systems	ChangminSon	540-231-7064
Community Design Assistance Center	Elizabeth Gilboy	540-231-5644
Conservation Management Institute	Scott Klopfer	540-231-7348
Family Therapy Center of Virginia Tech	Megan Dolbin-MacNab	540-231-7201
Forest Modeling Research Cooperative	Harold Burkhart	540-231-6952
Forest Operations and Business Research Cooperative	Chad Bolding	540-231-6924
Four Design	Jeff Joiner	540-231-1450
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute	Michael Friedlander	540-526-2500-
Fralin Life Sciences Institute (Fralin)	Robin L. McCarley	540-231-7354
Global Change Center	William Hopkins	540-231-7292
Henry W. Wiss Ctr for Theory and History of Art and Architecture	Humberto Rodriguez-Camilloni	540-231-5324
Hume Center for National Security and Technology	Eric Paterson (Interim Director)	540-231-2314
Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT)	Benjamin Knapp	540-231-0856
Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS)	Stefan Duma	540-231-2597
Institute for Policy and Governance	Max Stephenson	540-231-6775
Institute for Society, Culture and the Environment (ISCE)	Karen Roberto	540-231-7657
Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Mathematics (ICAM)	Terry Herdman	540-231-7667
International Archive of Women in Architecture	Donna Dunay	540-231-5512
Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics	Michael Moehler	540-231-7543
Macromolecules Innovation Institute	Bob Moore	540-231-4552
Multidisciplinary Analysis and Design Ctr for Adv Vehicles	Rakesh Kapania	540-231-4881
Occupational Safety and Health Research Center	Maury Nussbaum	540-231-2560
Psychological Services Center	Lee Cooper	540-231-6914
Stack@cs Center for Computer Science	Kirk Cameron	540-231-4328
Synergistic Environments for Experimental Computing (SEEC)	Wu-chun Feng	540-231-1192
Training and Technical Assistance Center	Patricia Bickley	540-231-5167
Translational Plant Sciences Center	Guillaume Pilot	540-231-0475
Virginia Center for Civil War Studies	Paul Quigley	540-231-5331
Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research	Michael Karmis	540-231-7057
Virginia Tech - Advanced Research Institute	Saifur Rahman	571-858-3300
Virginia Tech Center for Engineering Communication Center	Marie Paretti	540-231-1144
Virginia Tech Center for Autism Research	Angela Scarpa-Friedman	540-231-2615
Virginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery	Paul Carlier	540-231-6570
Virginia Tech Center for Housing Research	McCoy, Andrew	540-231-3993
Virginia Tech National Security Institute	Eric Paterson	540-231-2314
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI)	Zac Doerzaph	540-231-1500
Virginia Water Resources Reseach Center	Stephen Schoenholtz	540-231-5624
VT Engage: The Community Learning Collaborative	Meghan Weyrens Kuhn	540-231-7935
Wood-Based Composites Center	Chip Frazier	540-231-8318