UW faculty conduct research on the benefits of cultural diversity, as well as its challenges. This generates new knowledge that has economic, social and cultural impacts, on both local and global scales.
Research Centers and Institutes
Banks Center for Educational Justice — Focuses on research projects and activities designed to improve practice related to equity issues, intergroup relations, and the achievement of all students.
Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Native Art — Promotes scholarly research on northwest Native art.
Center for Human Rights — Promotes interdisciplinary excellence in the education of undergraduate and graduate students in the field of human rights.
Center for Multicultural Education — Focuses on research projects and activities designed to improve practice related to equity issues, intergroup relations, and the achievement of all students
Center for Women’s Welfare — Dedicated to research that influences contemporary policy issues of income inequality and economic opportunity, including tools to measure poverty and income inadequacy
Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children — Facilitates basic and clinical interdisciplinary research related to women’s health across the lifespan, with bio-behavioral and gender disparities core programs
Haring Center for Inclusive Education — Researchers study the most difficult barriers to learning faced by children with disabilities and design leading-edge solutions.
Indigenous Wellness Research Institute National Center of Excellence (IWRI NCoE) — Marshals community, tribal, academic, and governmental resources toward innovative, culture-centered interdisciplinary, collaborative social and behavioral research and education.
Northwest Center to Reduce Oral Health Disparities — Performs research aimed at reducing oral health disparities in the Pacific Northwest
UW Institute on Human Development and Disability (UW IHDD) — Provides an integrated interdisciplinary program in the field of developmental disabilities to advance basic and translational research and to enhance the capacity of communities to provide state-of-the-art comprehensive services.
Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race (WISIR) — An interdisciplinary research center dedicated to bringing the tools of contemporary social science inquiry to the careful examination of issues of social, economic, and political exclusion and disadvantage of marginalized minority populations in the United States, and their potential solutions.
West Coast Poverty Center –- Advances research on poverty with a view toward engaging policy practitioners
Women’s Reproductive Health Research Career Development Center — Recruits and facilitates the career development of obstetrician- gynecologists who have demonstrated research potential and are committed to a career in academic medicine.