The Center for High Energy Physics enhances the high energy physics research activities at the University of Oregon by sponsoring seminars on topics in high energy physics, hosting visiting scientists, supporting graduate student research, facilitating interaction between experimental activities and theoretical investigations of Oregon scientists, and fostering communication of research to a broader community.

This multidisciplinary research center generates, supports and disseminates research on gender and on all aspects of women's lives. A member of the National Council for Research on Women (NCRW), CSWS is one of 95 women's research and policy centers in the United States and among 300 centers in more than 80 countries.

The Child and Family Center staff is dedicated to understanding and promoting mental health and resilience within families in all cultural communities. The institute conducts research on social-emotional development from infancy through adolescence and provides innovative assessment, prevention, and intervention services for children and families.

The Institute for a Sustainable Environment is the center for innovative, interdisciplinary research at the nexus of ecological, economic, and social sustainability. The Institute helps resolve complex problems and enable people to sustain economies and environmental systems by engaging in research around natural resource management, land use, climate change, rural development, transportation, renewable energy, natural hazards, and environmental education.

The Institute of Ecology and Evolution, established in 2002 (formerly the Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology CEEB), promotes and facilitates research and graduate education in ecology and evolutionary biology.  The center encourages scientific interactions among its members and between members and the wider academic community.

The Institute of Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary research group of scientists, with faculty and students drawn from the departments of Biology, Psychology, and Human Physiology. Our laboratories offer graduate and postdoctoral training in the neurosciences with projects that address the development of the nervous system to human cognitive processes.

The mission of the Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior is to empower schools and social service agencies to address violence and destructive behavior, at the point of school entry and beyond, in order to ensure safety and to facilitate the academic achievement and healthy social development of children and youth. IVDB personnel study the conditions, developmental processes, and risk protective factors that are related to the prevention of violence, school failure, delinquency and other destructive outcomes among at-risk children and adolescents.

The Neuroinformatics Center's goal is to research the application of computer science and numerical computation to problems with brain modeling and imaging. High performance computing plays a significant role in the research at the NIC.

The Oregon Center for Optics encompasses research in basic and applied aspects of optics in physics and physical chemistry. Members of the OCO are faculty in physics and chemistry; Associate members are from these departments, as well as institutions outside of the university; Students—undergraduate, masters, and Ph.D.—are involved in all aspects of the research at OCO.

Founded in 1930, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology is the third oldest marine laboratory on the Pacific Coast. The 130-acre campus located about two hours from Eugene maintains housing and research facilities for visiting investigators and students from other institutions. Resident faculty are members of the Biology department and conduct research on the development, ecology, evolution and physiology of marine organisms worldwide from the intertidal zone to the deep sea.