Research Institutes and Centers
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Block Center for Technology and Society*
Director: Ramayya Krishnan, Dean, Heinz College, and William W. and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management Science and Information Systems
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Center for African American Urban Studies & the Economy (CAUSE)
Director: Joe W. Trotter Jr., Giant Eagle University Professor of History and Social Justice
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Center for Behavioral and Decision Research*
Steering Committee:
- Alessandro Acquisti, Associate Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy in Heinz College
- George Loewenstein, Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Economics and Psychology in Dietrich College
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Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic
Director and Founder: Mame-Fatou Niang, associate professor of French and Francophone Studies
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Center for Ethics and Policy
Director: Alex John London, Clara W. West Professor of Ethics and Philosophy
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Center for Human Rights Science
Director: Jay D. Aronson, Professor of Science, Technology and Society
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Center for Informed Democracy & Social-cybersecurity (IDeaS)*
Director: Kathleen Carley, Professor, Institute for Software Research
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Center for Risk Perception and Communication
Director: Julie Downs, Associate Research Professor of Social and Decision Sciences
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Center for Shared Prosperity*
- Executive Director: Illah Nourbakhsh, K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies
- Operations Director: Marlene Williams
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Children’s School
Director: Sharon Carver, Teaching Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean for Educational Affairs
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CMU-Pitt BRIDGE Center*
(A joint center with the University of Pittsburgh)
- Co-director: Timothy Verstynen, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
- Co-director: Julie Fiez, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
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Modern Language Resource Center
Director: Sébastien Dubreil, Teaching Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Second Language Acquisition and Technology-Enhanced Learning
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Neuroscience Institute*
Director: Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor of Auditory Neuroscience, Psychology, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering
* These institutes and/or centers cross multiple schools and colleges.