Arts and Sciences Centers and Institutes

• Center for Algal Microscopy and Image Digitization
  The "Gateway" to Biological Sciences archive of 185+ digitized images. The archive consists mostly of light images of cleaned diatoms generated by Rex Lowe's laboratory.
  
• Center for Biomolecular Sciences
  This Center for Biomolecular Sciences (CMBS) was formed to provide a mechanism to bring together scientists from the Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Chemistry to participate in research and graduate education. The faculty within this center are experts in their fields, many of them with national and international reputations. This center includes three sub-areas: Molecular Microbiology, Molecular Evolution, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
  
• Center for Family and Demographic Research
  The Center for Family and Demographic Research (CFDR) is dedicated to training, research and service in demography. The CFDR integrates demographic methods, data, and perspectives with other social scientific approaches to understand the well-being of children and families.
  
• Center for Materials Science
  The Center for Materials Science is an interdisciplinary group devoted to research and instruction in materials science. It includes participants from the departments of: Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics and Statistics, Physics and Astronomy, and Technology Systems. The Center is a charter member of the Ohio Materials Network (MatNet), which is a state-wide collaboration of materials researchers and characterization and synthesis facilities that can be utilized by all participants.
  
• Center for Microscopy and Microanalysis
  The Center for Microscopy and Microanalysis is a collaborative effort between the Department of Biological Science and a number of other departments, including the Department of Geology, the Department of Chemistry, and the Department of Physics, at BGSU.
  
• Center for Neuroscience, Mind & Behavior
  The Center for Neuroscience, Mind & Behavior at Bowling Green State University is a group of faculty, post-doctoral associates, graduate, and undergraduate students actively studying the dynamic relationships between the nervous system, the mind, and behavior. The Center focuses explicitly on integrating behavioral and cognitive research with the various sub-disciplines of neuroscience. Our primary goal is to offer a mechanistic understanding of integrated systems of behavior at levels of analysis that bridge individual molecules, cells, and circuits with mental processes and cognition.
  
• Center for Photochemical Sciences
  The Center for Photochemical Sciences, established in 1985, evolved from research activities of faculty in the Chemistry Department to make more effective use of focused resources in the photochemical sciences by assembling teams of scientists collaborating in an interactive, interdisciplinary research setting.
  
• Center for Policy Analysis and Public Service
  The Center for Policy Analysis & Public Service is an applied research unit of Bowling Green State University and a member of the Ohio Rural Universities Program (RUP). Our mission is to use the combined resources of RUP, BGSU, and the Center to link the needs of northwest Ohio’s local governments, public agencies, and development organizations with the knowledge base of BGSU. The Center provides information, data, internships, applied research, technical assistance, and training to assist northwest Ohio community organizations and agencies to more effectively manage and serve their communities.
  
• Center for Popular Culture Studies
  The Center for Popular Culture Studies is focused on the interdisciplinary study of Popular Culture in all its many roles, meanings, and manifestations and combining approaches of the humanities and social sciences.
  
• Center of Science and Mathematics Education: Opportunities for Success
  COSMOS is a collaboration of Bowling Green State University, Owens Community College, numerous school districts and educational service centers, and businesses to improve mathematics and science education in Northwest Ohio. COSMOS is funded by the Ohio Board of Regents and the Ohio Resource Center.
  
• Institute for Psychological Research and Application
  IPRA is a broad-based interdisciplinary research institute that offers a wide range of professional services to organizations in both the private and public sectors. The Institute has assisted clients in such areas as personnel selection and evaluation, recruitment and retention/turnover, staff training and development, program evaluation, employee health, workplace stress assessment, organizational development, benchmarking, employee attitude surveys, organizational analysis, and EEO/Affirmative Action.
  
• Institute for the Study of Culture and Society
  Institute for the Study of Culture and Society (ICS) is dedicated to understanding cultural history, to reshaping studies in the humanities and the arts in the context of contemporary thought, and to promoting work across disciplines.
  
• Social Philosophy and Policy Center
  Founded in 1981, the Social Philosophy and Policy Center is dedicated to the examination of public policy issues from a philosophical perspective. The Center is distinctive in its focus upon the ethical aspects of public policy questions. This emphasis reflects the belief that policy questions cannot be adequately addressed by empirical investigation alone. Factual research can reveal the optimal or efficient policy by which certain public ends can be attained, yet the validity of those ends is still open to question from an ethical standpoint.
  

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