page_title: George Washington University
section_title: Centers and institutes
hierarchical_section_title: George Washington University / Research / Centers and institutes
caption_attribution_description: English: The H. B. Burns Memorial Building located on the corner of 22nd Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Built in 1931 to the designs of architect Robert O. Scholz, the Art Deco medical office building originally served as the Keystone Apartments.
context_page_description: The George Washington University is a private research university in Washington, D.C. It was chartered in 1821 by an act of the United States Congress.
  The university is organized into 14 colleges and schools, including the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, the Elliott School of International Affairs, the GW School of Business, the School of Media and Public Affairs, the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, the GW Law School and the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. George Washington's main Foggy Bottom Campus is located in the heart of Washington, D.C., with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank located on campus and the White House and the U.S. Department of State within blocks of campus. GWU hosts numerous research centers and institutes, including the National Security Archive and the Institute for International Economic Policy. GWU has two satellite campuses: the Mount Vernon Campus, located in D.C.'s Foxhall neighborhood and the Virginia Science and Technology Campus. It is the largest institution of higher education in the District of Columbia.
context_section_description: The George Washington University has many research centers including (non-exhaustive):
  Centers
  Sigur Center for Asian Studies
  Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology
  GW Cancer Center
  Center for Aging, Health, & Humanities
  Center for Equity and Excellence in Education
  GW Institute for Biomimetics and Bioinspired Engineering
  Center for Otolaryngology Microsurgery Education & Training (COMET)
  The Dr. Cyrus & Myrtle Katzen Cancer Research Center
  McCormick Genomic and Proteomic Center (MGPC)
  National Crash Analysis Center
  Biostatistics Center
  Regulatory Studies Center
  Center for the Connected Consumer
  The Project on Forward Engagement
  GW Project on Extremism
  Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project
  Jackie Robinson Project
  First Federal Congress Project
  Institutes
  Institute for International Economic Policy
  Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication
  Institute for Security and Conflict Studies
  Institute for International Science and Technology Policy
  Institute for Global and International Studies
  Institute for Disaster and Fragility Resilience
  Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
  Institute for Middle East Studies
  Institute for African Studies
  Institute for Korean Studies
  Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute
  George Washington Institute for Neuroscience
  George Washington Institute for Public Policy
  GW Cancer Institute
  GW Solar Institute
  GW Institute for Biomedical Sciences
  GW Institute for Biomedical Engineering
  Rodham Institute
  Ronald Reagan Institute of Emergency Medicine
  Space Policy Institute
  Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet
  Institute for Security and Conflict Studies
  GW Institute for Massively Parallel Applications and Computing Technology (IMPACT)
  Institute for Biomedical Engineering
  Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
  Washington Institute of Surgical Education (WISE)
caption: The Burns Building houses different medical research centers.
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