Centers & Institutes

Innovative, high-efficiency greenhouses serve teaching, research, and extension functions in Biosystems Engineering and the School of Plant Sciences.

Addresses questions important to the development and well-being of contemporary children, youth, and families, with the goal of improving basic understanding to enhance the lives of the people of Arizona and the world.

A creative partnership of the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law and Cooperative Extension aimed at collaborating with stakeholders, mentoring student clinicians and fellows, providing scholarly legal and policy analysis, and addressing the underrepresented law and policy needs of the natural resource community of Arizona and the West.

Creates research-based educational outreach programs to improve financial literacy and help consumers to make informed financial choices in today’s complex markets.

Connects corporations with promising students, enriches education with real-world experiences, and conducts outreach that benefits consumers worldwide by aligning industry with academics.

Aims to empower informed decision-making and enrich understanding about water policy and management issues in water-stressed regions through engagement, education, and applied research.

An innovative public-private partnership that connects top scientists to the desert agricultural industry to develop solutions to the high-priority challenges of arid-land crop production.

School of Natural Resources and the Environment

Responsible for GIS institutional development, GIS environmental database design and development, application of cartographic and spatial analysis for agriculture, natural resources, and rural development.

School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences

Dedicated to the diagnosis of diseases of cultured penaeid shrimp, from samples received from farms and research facilities all over the world.

School of Plant Sciences

Uses gene sequencing to better understand areas of structural, evolutionary, and functional genomics of crop plants.

School of Natural Resources and the Environment

Works with advanced airborne and satellite remote sensing data and other geospatial information technologies to help address both fundamental and applied issues in natural resource management.

Department of Environmental Science

Assists faculty, student, and staff researchers to detect, quantify, and speciate organic and inorganic micro-pollutants — including dissolved and nano-particulate components — in complex environmental matrices by using mass spectrometry and other analytical techniques.

School of Natural Resources and the Environment

Conducts field studies to trace organic contaminants, measure wastewater and water treatment, determine the efficacy of irrigation technologies, and promote the revegetation of disturbed areas.

School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences

Houses a thoroughbred breeding herd for racehorses, and a quarter horse teaching herd for students.

School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences

State-of-the-art, USDA-inspected facility that teaches and conducts the harvesting, processing, testing, and evaluation of safe meat products for consumers and industry.

School of Plant Sciences

Stores and curates over 40,000 accessioned specimens of fungi and fungus-like organisms, with special collections of rusts, polypores, and corticioid fungi from around the world.

School of Plant Sciences

A research collection of over 420,000 dried plant specimens, with emphasis on the plants of the Sonoran Desert region and adjacent areas of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.

Department of Entomology

The insect collection maintains approximately 2 million insect specimens and is the most comprehensive in the world for the Sonoran Desert Region.

School of Natural Resources and the Environment

Fosters phenology communities of practice and the development of tools and techniques to support a wide range of decisions made related to allergies, wildfires, water, and conservation.

School of Natural Resources and the Environment and Cooperative Extension

A network of agencies studying and managing natural and cultural resources across the states of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas.

School of Natural Resources and the Environment

Enhances graduated education in fisheries and wildlife sciences through research between natural resource agencies and the university.

School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences

A state-of-the art environmental control laboratory facility with the capacity to study the effects of heat stress and other factors in sheep and cattle to decrease animal stress and increase production.