Automated Vital Statistics System
Automated Vital Statistics System (AVSS), formerly the Health Data Research Facility, operates in cooperation with local, state, and federal health agencies to automate public health records. AVSS is used to improve the timeliness and accuracy of birth certificates by automating their production at the hospital of birth. In addition, it is used to automate other public health paper records such as confidential morbidity reports and death certificates.

Center for Black Studies Research
The Center for Black Studies is devoted to the study of people of African descent, appears uniquely qualified to enter current intellectual debates about the position and the experience of Blacks in Africa and in the Americas.  The Center's research agenda aims at unearthing the truths of life as experienced by millions of African, African-Americans and Caribbean Islanders, a reality, which remains buried under the misconceptions of public opinion and slanted historical depiction.  

Chicano Studies Institute
The Center for Chicano Studies facilitates interdisciplinary and field-specific research as scholars and students from all disciplines pursue work that helps policy makers, fellow researchers, educators, service providers and the interested public better understand the most pressing issues pertaining to Chicana/o and Latina/o populations.

Center for Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary psychology is based on the recognition that the human brain consists of a large collection of functionally specialized computational devices that evolved to solve the adaptive problems regularly encountered by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. UC Santa Barbara has developed one of the largest and most active communities of researchers in evolutionary psychology and allied disciplines in the world. The Center's goals are to promote the discovery and systematic mapping of the adaptations that comprise the evolved species-typical architecture of the human mind and brain, and to explore how cultural and social phenomena can be explained as the output of such newly discovered or newly mapped psychological adaptations.

Center for Information Technology and Society
CITS is dedicated to research and education about the cultural transitions and social innovations associated with technology. The Center comprises a diverse team of more than a dozen scholars in the social sciences, engineering, and the humanities. We conduct research, organize public forums, provide multi-disciplinary doctoral education on technology and society, and facilitate partnerships with industry and the public sector. Our research examines many aspects of the social and cultural transitions under way at present around the globe, but we have a particular focus on technological change and three topics: Social Collaboration and Dynamic Communities, Global Cultures in Transition, and Technology in Education.

Center for Middle East Studies
Center In 2000, CMES was established to administer a federally-funded National Resource Center grant secured by Middle East Studies Program faculty for instructional, programmatic and research support. CMES has been a vital campus resource for speakers, seminars, film series, conferences, cultural events, and research on the Middle East. CMES also serves the needs of heritage communities in promoting Middle Eastern languages and cultures.

Center for Nanotechnology and Society
The mission of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS) is to serve as a national research and education center, a network hub among researchers and educators concerned with nanotechnologies’ societal impacts, and a resource base for studying these impacts in the U.S. and abroad. The CNS carries out innovative and interdisciplinary research in three key areas: 1) the historical context of nanotechnologies; 2) the institutional and industrial processes of technological innovation of nanotechnologies along with their global diffusion and comparative impacts; and 3) the social risk perception and response to different applications of nanotechnologies.

Center for New Racial Studies
The Center is a developing "think tank" that focuses on the dynamics of race and racism in the 21st century. We are committed to revitalizing racial studies on our campus and beyond. We are an affiliated group of faculty from the social sciences and humanities who work on racial issues from a wide range of disciplines: historians, literary critics, musicologists, sociologists, political scientists, and specialists in education. We study race from very different vantage points: global, national, local, and experiential.

Center for Research on Women & Social Justice
The Center for Research on Women and Social Justice approaches the study of women in culture and society from an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective, inquiring into the lives of women and men, the impact of cultural notions of gender on society, and the ways that race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, age, and other factors impact on work, family, and democracy.

Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science
CSISS was funded in 1999 with support from the National Science Foundation under its program to promote research infrastructure in the social and behavioral science. CSISS recognizes the growing significance of space, spatiality, location, and place in social science research. It seeks to develop unrestricted access to tools and perspectives that will advance the spatial analytic capabilities of researchers throughout the social sciences.

Center for the Advanced Studies of Individual Differences
CASID began in 1991 as the Special Education Research Laboratory, which formulated and conducted policy analysis research and training on school implementation of national education policy. The center was founded as a means to focus broadly on educationally significant individual differences in transaction with their organization and policy contexts. The Center’s scope also includes research technology as a mediator of individual differences in organizational contexts.

Center for the Study of Film, Television and New Media
CFTNM’s mission is based on the philosophy that film, television, and new media are best studied in the context of a rigorous and broad-based liberal arts and sciences education. Although UCSB faculty conduct field-transforming research and are among the leading specialists in their fields, what separates our program from schools that focus on pre-professional training is an approach that grounds students in the liberal arts and sciences.

Center on Police Practices and Community
COPPAC focuses on interdisciplinary collaborations amongst academics from UC Santa Barbara and other institutions worldwide, police, and the community to enhance knowledge and theory on law enforcement issues. Through this work, COPPAC empowers the community, policy makers and law enforcement to develop laws, policies and practices based solidly in research.

East Asia Center
The EAC includes an unusually qualified group of scholars, graduate students, artists, writers and other people interested in East Asian cultures. The role of the EAC is to bring this diverse group of people together more often and create a space for the exchange of ideas across disciplinary boundaries and across the academy and the wider community.

Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research
ISBER is UC Santa Barbara’s Organized Research Unit for sponsored research in the Social Sciences. ISBER is organized to serve a broad range of interests, promoting interdisciplinary work that often spans the boundaries between the social sciences, the humanities, the behavioral sciences, and, in some cases, the physical and life sciences. ISBER's researchers encompass a wide range of social science and other research concerns. With over 130 principal investigators and 14 research centers, ISBER provides help with conceptualizing, finding funding for, and administering research projects.

Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
The IHC was founded 1987 to implement the Humanities Initiative begun by the President of the University of California. Out of the conviction that research and teaching in the Humanities are becoming perilously specialized, the IHC regards its principal mission as encouraging interdisciplinary scholarship and instruction by supporting research projects, team-taught courses, lectures, seminars, and conferences. The IHC seeks to broaden the traditional definition of humanistic endeavors by sponsoring activities in the performing and visual arts.

Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance
Established in 2005, LAEF addresses important questions on growth and fluctuations in national, or aggregate, economies. LAEF is directed by Nobel Laureate Finn Kydland, Jeffrey Henley Professor of Economics, and sponsors conferences, workshops, and provides an environment in which to conduct topical research in quantitative aggregate theory by resident and short-term visiting scholars.

MesoAmerican Research Center

Michael D. Palm Center
The Palm Center, formerly the Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military, uses rigorous social science to inform public discussions of controversial social issues, enabling policy outcomes to be informed more by evidence than by emotion. Our data-driven approach is premised on the notion that the public makes wise choices on social issues when high-quality information is available. The Center promotes the interdisciplinary analysis of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other marginalized sexual identities in the armed forces by forging a community of scholars, creating a forum for information exchange and debate, offering itself as a launching point for researchers who need access to data and scholarly networks, and supporting graduate student training.

Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies
In 2005 the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies was established to provide an intellectual and programmatic focus for the University’s activities in global, international, and area studies. The Center provides financial support and arrangement facilities to sponsor public programs, seminars, publications, and research planning for units across the campus.

Social Science Survey Center/Benton Survey Research Lab
The Social Science Survey Center (SSSC) was developed to enhance interdisciplinary collaboration on both theoretical and methodological planes. A central goal of the SSSC exists to assist faculty (both at UC Santa Barbara and elsewhere) in the development and execution of their funded survey research projects. As such, it can increase faculty chances of securing funding for survey research projects, as well as provide a local resource for the development of survey instruments and interviewing. The SSSC has three central goals: (1) assisting faculty with their funded research projects; (2) providing practical experience for graduate and undergraduate students in survey research; and (3) creating new knowledge in the area of survey methodology.