Centers & Institutes

5.6 CENTERS AND INSTITUTES

CSUN is home to many Centers and Institutes, where you can find faculty involved in scholarship related to your own, collaborate on projects, or find support for your own research.  You can find a list of 47 Centers and Institutes in this list.  Often faculty find ways to collaborate with these centers to achieve their scholarship, service and teaching goals and passions.

A few examples include:

 

BUILD PODER

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Funded by the National Institutes of Health, BUILD PODER (Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity, Promoting Opportunities for Diversity in Education and Research) supports and trains nearly 280 students and over 100 faculty mentors who work together on mutual biomedical research projects and present their work at professional conferences.

Faculty mentors attend a 16-hour orientation to mentoring with humility and annual training and have opportunities for research training in pilot projects, grant-writing and other methods training, conferences that inform the community about Critical Race Theory, our theoretical and transformative foundation.

The Research Enrichment Core of BUILD PODER supports faculty research mentors by (1) mentor training that integrates cultural humility, and (2) infrastructure and research skills-building to support research development. In keeping with Critical Race Theory (Bell, 1980) and Wise Mentoring (Cohen, Steele, & Ross, 1999), BUILD PODER holds high standards and expectations while supporting faculty in a customized fashion to ensure their research and mentoring provide meaningful, positive, and productive experiences for all members of our biomedical research teams.

Faculty research enrichment opportunities include:

  • Research Hubs (year-round)
  • Faculty Scholar Academy (FSA) grant-writing support (year-round)
  • Research skills workshops (fall and spring semesters)
  • Mentor Training in cultural humility employing Critical Race Theory (CRT) (fall and spring semesters)
  • External, off-campus, mentors and training (year-round)
  • Writing Groups (apply in fall for spring groups)
  • Reading Groups for professional growth (fall and spring semesters)
  • Pilot Project funding (apply in fall)

For more information, visit their webpage or contact buildpoder@csun.edu

 

CSUN Health Equity Research and Education (HERE) Center

Here Center Health Equity Research and Education

The HERE Center is a university-chartered center at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) dedicated to community-partnered participatory research. The HERE Center grew from the foundation that the Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) Promoting Opportunities for Diversity in Education and Research (PODER) program provided.

Additional Information

Want more information about the HERE Center? Visit their website. 

Want to get involved as a faculty at the HERE Center? Visit this webpage. 

Institute for Community Health and Wellbeing 

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The Institute for Community Health and Wellbeing focuses on strengthening individuals and communities through creative partnerships and education, matching campus expertise and resources in response to regional needs.  The Institute provides community engagement and research opportunities for faculty and their students, as well as collaborations on grants and community programs. Through collaborations, action projects are developed with community partners, leading to meaningful impact in quality of life.  The unique power of the Institute lies in serving as a focus for creative connections with communities in response to their expressed needs.  Strengthening individuals by promoting improved quality of life, in turn benefits whole communities.

The goals of the Institute for Community Health and Wellbeing are to:

  • Build capacity and campus-community connections related to health and wellbeing
  • Increase access to these services for members of the community
  • Leverage faculty and student knowledge as a resource to community organizations
  • Expand opportunities at the University to prepare practice-ready professionals
  • Promote wellness related scholarship of faculty and students through professional practice, scholarly work, clinical services, conference presentations, and educational workshops
  • Increase external funding of the Institute for Community Health and Wellbeing and its partners
  • Foster the development and collaboration of CSUN Centers serving individuals and families and promoting the work of centers as a centralized marketing resource for the community seeking services

More information about the CSUN Institute for Community Health and Wellbeing can be found at: Institute of Health and Wellbeing Website

Instagram: @csunhealthandwellbeing and Facebook: @CSUNHealthandWellbeing

Institute for Sustainability

Sustainability Center on CSUN campus

The Institute for Sustainability partners with various campus departments and local organizations to promote sustainability education and literacy through class presentations, hands-on workshops, and events. The Institute works to implement CSUN's Road Map to Sustainability, specifically focused on education, Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI), and Cultivating Sustainability. The Institute also operates the G.A.R.D.E.N. and Hydroponic Food Farm where students learn to grow food, gain service hours, and help fight food insecurity by donating the harvested produce to the CSUN Pantry. Faculty who are interested in partnering can request a speaker from our team Links to an external site..