Block Center for Technology and Society*

Director: Ramayya Krishnan, Dean, Heinz College, and William W. and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management Science and Information Systems

Center for African American Urban Studies & the Economy (CAUSE)

Director: Joe W. Trotter Jr., Giant Eagle University Professor of History and Social Justice

Center for the Arts in Society*

Director: Wendy Arons, Professor of Dramatic Literature

Center for Behavioral and Decision Research*

Steering Committee:

• Alessandro Acquisti, Associate Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy in Heinz College
• George Loewenstein, Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Economics and Psychology in Dietrich College

Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic

Director and Founder: Mame-Fatou Niang, associate professor of French and Francophone Studies 

Center for Ethics and Policy

Director: Alex John London, Clara W. West Professor of Ethics and Philosophy

Center for Formal Epistemology

Director: Kevin T. Kelly, Professor of Philosophy

Center for Human Rights Science

Director: Jay D. Aronson, Professor of Science, Technology and Society

Center for Informed Democracy & Social-cybersecurity (IDeaS)*

Director: Kathleen Carley, Professor, Institute for Software Research

Center for Risk Perception and Communication

Director: Julie Downs, Associate Research Professor of Social and Decision Sciences

Center for Shared Prosperity*

• Executive Director: Illah Nourbakhsh, K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies
• Operations Director: Marlene Williams

Children’s School

Director: Sharon Carver, Teaching Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean for Educational Affairs

CMU-Pitt BRIDGE Center*

(A joint center with the University of Pittsburgh)

• Co-director: Timothy Verstynen, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
• Co-director: Julie Fiez, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh

Collaboratory Against Hate*

Executive Director: Susan Baida

The Humanities Center

Director: David R. Shumway, Professor of English

Modern Language Resource Center

Director: Sébastien Dubreil, Teaching Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Second Language Acquisition and Technology-Enhanced Learning

Neuroscience Institute*

Director: Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor of Auditory Neuroscience, Psychology, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering