Centers & Institutes
Centers of knowledge. Research, learning, and public dialogue meet in the activities of Dartmouth’s centers and institutes.
The centers listed below represent a sample from across the institution. A comprehensive list of the more than 50 research centers at Dartmouth is also available.
Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society
The Institute's mission is to advance an affordable, sustainable, and reliable energy future for the benefit of society by developing the next generation of energy experts, leaders, and citizens and by transforming humankind's understanding of energy systems across technological, environmental, economic, geopolitical, and cultural perspectives.
Read MoreCenter for Business, Government & Society
The Center, at the Tuck School of Business, prepares leaders to understand, shape, and succeed in the dynamic interactions between business and government in the global economy.
Read MoreDartmouth Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE)
CCNE takes advantage of Dartmouth’s culture of cross-disciplinary collaboration to integrate nanotechnology into basic and applied cancer research in order to provide new solutions for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
Read MoreDartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL)
DCAL facilitates professional development for Dartmouth’s faculty and cultivates conversation about how people learn. It works with educators across the campus and helps them practice learner-centered course design, implementation, and assessment.
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Dartmouth Center for Social Impact
The Dartmouth Center for Social Impact prepares students to be transformative leaders for the common good.
Read MoreDartmouth Centers Forum
The Forum is a collaborative alliance that promotes campus-wide dialogue on complex issues. It seeks to respond to growing political, ideological, social, and intellectual dissonance in the academy and in society.
Read MoreThe Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
The students and faculty at The Dartmouth Institute ask challenging questions about health care and use research, education, and engagement to understand and improve health care systems in the U.S. and abroad.
Read MoreDickey Center for International Understanding
The John Sloan Dickey Center aims to produce the best understanding and analysis of international issues through collaborative, multidisciplinary research on complex problems, such as global climate change, world health crises, and war and conflict resolution.
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Ethics Institute
The Institute fosters the study and teaching of ethics throughout the Dartmouth community, at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools.
Read MoreHood Museum of Art
A teaching museum, the Hood works to create an ideal learning environment that fosters transformative encounters with works of art. It currently holds about 65,000 objects in its collections, which are among the oldest and largest of any university in the country.
Read MoreHopkins Center for the Arts
The Hop is the cultural hub of campus and nurtures a passion for the arts within the Dartmouth community and in the Upper Valley region. Each year, the Hop holds more than 100 live performances in virtually all genres of music, theater, and dance, as well as over 200 film screenings and other events.
Read MoreInstitute for Security, Technology, and Society (ISTS)
ISTS is dedicated to advancing information security and privacy through interdisciplinary research, education, and outreach programs that focus on information technology and its role in society.
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Institute for Writing and Rhetoric
The Institute fosters the habits of inquiry, reading, writing, and speech that constitute the heart of a liberal arts education, preparing Dartmouth students to be critical thinkers, speakers, readers, and writers.
Read MoreLeslie Center for the Humanities
The Fannie and Alan Leslie ’30 Center is an interdisciplinary space for the production and advancement of humanistic knowledge. Everything the Center does—from hosting lectures and seminars to providing faculty and student research fellowships—helps define and promote the value of the humanities at Dartmouth and beyond.
Read MoreNeukom Institute for Computational Science
Computation is increasingly important to research conducted across the humanities, arts, social sciences, and sciences. The William H. Neukom Institute was founded in 2007 to enable Dartmouth students and faculty to integrate computational technology into their scholarship.
Read MoreNorris Cotton Cancer Center
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center is one of the nation’s premier facilities for cancer treatment and research. It is one of 69 National Cancer Institute–designated comprehensive cancer centers in the U.S. The center’s researchers and clinicians work to improve the understanding, prevention, and treatment of cancer.
Read MoreRockefeller Center for Public Policy
The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy educates, trains, and inspires the next generation of public policy leaders in all fields through multidisciplinary education, public lectures by visiting scholars and dignitaries, skills training, and research across the social sciences.
Read MoreSYNERGY: The Dartmouth Clinical and Translational Science Institute
SYNERGY fosters translational research at Dartmouth by improving research infrastructure, promoting cross-disciplinary collaboration, training scientists in translational research, and facilitating the movement of scientific discoveries into clinical trials and clinical practice.
Read MoreThe Tucker Center
The William Jewett Tucker Center offers opportunities to cultivate a sense of meaning and purpose through spiritual, ethical, and moral exploration and engagement.
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