Columbian College is home to top research centers and institutes that encompass an array of disciplines focused on issues and ideas ranging from the origins of humans to innovations of the future.

Humanities

• Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr. Institute for Religious Freedom
• Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute
• Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project
• First Federal Congress Project
• GW Capitol Archaeological Institute
• GW Confucius Institute
• GW Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute
• Institute for Immigrants in America

Social Sciences

• Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology
• Center for Economic Research
• Center for Innovative Media
• Center for Urban and Environmental Research
• Documentary Center
• Global Media Institute
• GW Mind-Brain Institute
• GW Solar Institute
• Institute for Ethnographic Research
• Institute for Public Diplomacy & Global Communication
• Institute for Sustainability Research, Education and Policy
• Latino Health Research Center
• Regulatory Studies Center

Sciences

• Center for Quantum Computing, Information, Logic & Topology
• Computational Biology Institute
• GW Institute for Massively Parallel Applications and Computing Technology
• GW Institute for Nuclear Studies
• Institute for Materials Science
• Institute for Mathematical Sciences
• Institute for Reliability and Risk Analysis
• McCormick Genomic and Proteomic Center
• W.M. Keck Institute for Proteomics Technology and Applications