Center for Unconventional Security Affairs
The Center for Unconventional Security Affairs (CUSA) was established in 2003 at the University of California, Irvine as the hub of a global network that undertakes research, education and public service activities on an emerging set of unconventional, transnational and human security issues including environmental change, global criminal and terrorist networks, and infectious disease.
Community Outreach Partnership Center
The Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC) builds bridges between UCI and the local community by engaging UCI faculty and students in addressing community priorities. COPC supports research, teaching, and outreach projects that focus on demographic change and its impacts for communities.
Center for Inequality and Social Justice
The UCI Center on Inequality and Social Justice (CISJ) supports research on inequality and social justice in Orange County and Southern California, using the region as a "learning laboratory." Their goal is to facilitate faculty research efforts at UCI tied to both concerns over the rise of inequality, and the social justice responses it creates. Thier primary intent is the production and release of timely and useful information which clarifies the many ways which inequality takes form and is challenged in Southern California and in similar regions throughout the US.
Center for Organizational Research
UC Irvine has enjoyed a long tradition of innovative, interdisciplinary organizational research that dates back to the founding of the campus in the mid 1960's. The Center for Organizational Research continues that tradition by providing a focal point for organization scholars from across
the UCI campus.
Focused Research Group in International Environmental Cooperation
This unit links researchers and techniques from the social and natural sciences in interdisciplinary efforts to address international environmental problems.
Institute of Transportation Studies
A University of California organized research unit with branches at Irvine, Davis, and Berkeley, ITS is a recognized international leader in transportation research. ITS faculty members and students are at the forefront of research linking transportation to sustainability, technology, mobility, and urban development.
The Newkirk Center for Science and Society
The Newkirk Center finds ways to develop and share research knowledge with the public and policymakers so they can make informed decisions on vital policy issues of law, education, environment, health care, crime, and public infrastructure. The center carries out its mission in several ways: through workshops, colloquia, town hall meetings, distinguished visitors, and communication programs.
Urban Water Research Center
The Center supports interdisciplinary research and graduate education on urban water issues. Planning, Policy, and Design faculty and students participating in these efforts are joined by members of five other UCI Departments (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Environmental Health, Science, and Policy, Environmental Toxicology, Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology, and Earth System System).