University of Minnesota Duluth - Centers, Institutes, and Research Labs

Centers, Institutes, and Research Labs

Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER): Conducts economic and business research, providing unbiased data and analysis concerning the economic viability of building, expanding or relocating businesses in the region.

Center for Community and Regional Research: Community-based education providing faculty and students in the social and natural sciences the opportunity to work with local and regional community organizations.

Center for Economic Development: A consulting program with one-on-one services for business start-ups and existing businesses focusing on feasibility studies, market research, surveys, business plan development, loan packaging, operational assistance, procurement assistance, manufacturing, management, compliance (EPA, OSHA, Revenue and Tax), problem solving, and information technology.

Center for Genocide, Holocaust, and Human Rights Studies: The Center engages students, staff and the wider public by offering a lecture series and workshops.

Center for Regional and Tribal Child Welfare Studies: Advances the well-being of children by strengthening families and communities through social work education, research, and outreach in the region.

Center for Water and Environment: Committed to understanding problems and developing tools for solving problems that impede environmentally sound development of the economy.

Great Lakes Maritime Research Institute (GLMRI): GLMRI is dedicated to developing and improving economically and environmentally sustainable maritime commerce by researching marine transportation, logistics, economics, engineering, environmental planning, and port management.

Large Lakes Observatory (LLO): As the only institute in the country dedicated to the study of large lakes throughout the world, LLO focuses on the global implications of aquatic chemistry, circulation dynamics, geochemistry, acoustic remote sensing, plankton dynamics, sedimentology, and paleoclimatology.

Minnesota Sea Grant Program: Facilitates interaction between university scientists and the public. Scientists work to enhance the communities, the environment and the economies along Lake Superior and Minnesota's inland waters.

Natural Resource Research Institute: The institute helps launch promising small businesses and provides ongoing research and development assistance, especially in the areas of forest products, and taconite ore mining. Environmental program areas include: water resources, land resources, land-water interactions, and environmental chemistry.

The Northland Advanced Transportation Systems Research Laboratory: Develops innovative technologies for safe, productive, and sustainable transportation systems in northern areas.

Royal D. Alworth Institute for International Studies: The Institute aims to engage students, staff and the wider public with open discussion for educational, social and democratic purposes by introducing a wide range of international issues that have domestic implications.

Visualization and Digital Imaging Lab: A multi-disciplinary lab that focuses on the integration of information and emerging visual technologies and the distribution of knowledge to the public.