RESEARCH CENTERS AND INSTITUTES

1. The Energy Efficiency and Reliability Center
   The Energy Efficiency and Reliability Center is helping to enhance the benefits of energy and its use by conducting research, developmental, and educational activities that increase the value, reliability, and quality of energy resources and processes. For additional information, please contact Robert Kramer, Director, at 219-989-2147. Please visit our website here.
2. Purdue Water Institute
   The PWI’s main mission is to conduct research and teaching in water resources, and assist local, regional/state agencies, and the relevant private sector in solving water-related problems. For additional information about PWI, please contact  George Nnanna, Interim Director,at 219-989-2071.
3. Northwest Indiana Center for Evidence Based Nursing Practice: A Joanna Briggs Institute Collaborating Centre
   The mission of the Northwest Indiana Center for Evidence Based Nursing Practice is to advance nursing practice by developing evidence-based practice knowledge and skills of nurses, guiding the integration of evidence into clinical practice and producing new evidence through research. For additional information, please contact Lisa Hopp, Director,at 219-989-2823.
4. Center for Science & Technology Education
   The goals of the Center for Education in Science and Technology is to create science based curricular material for elementary, secondary, and college students based on scientific and mathematical research modeling. For additional information, please contact Robert Rivers, Director, at 219-989-2348.
5. Center for Global Studies
   Established in April 2006, the Center for Global Studies at Purdue University Calumet will bring together communication, history, political science, and other disciplines, and connect researchers nationally and internationally, in pursuit of fresh and rigorously evaluated information about the practices, strategies, and trends in global culture, media, politics, and economics. For additional information, please contact Yahya R. Kamalipour, Director, at 219-989-2393 or 219-989-2880.
6. Northwest Indiana Transportation Center
   The mission of the Northwest Indiana Transportation Center is to conduct research, serve as a technical resource to assist in regional economic development, and offer educational programs in transportation related areas and technologies. For additional information, please contact Don Gray, Director, at 219-989-2472.
7. Center for Computational Science
   The Center for Computational Science at Purdue University Calumet has been established to support, enhance and enable discovery in scientific and engineering fields where advanced computing is required.For more information, please contact Shawn Slavin, Director, at 219-989-2625 or 219-989-2130.