Centers of Excellence & Research Units Recognized by the Board of Regents (As of February 2018) CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE (ACADEMIC, RESEARCH OR WORKFORCE) Institution Center of Excellence Title Initial Regents Approval End of Approval Period BRCC Center for Workforce Excellence in Transportation Technology June 2013 06/15/2019 BPCC Cyber Technology Center for Workforce Excellence May 2017 07/01/2018 FTCC Deepwater Center for Workforce Excellence February 2014 03/01/2020 LSU Health Sciences Center – Shreveport Center of Excellence for Arthritis and Rheumatology August 2014 12/31/2019 LSU Health Sciences Center – Shreveport Feist-Weiller Cancer Center of Excellence December 2014 12/31/2019 LSU Health Sciences Center – New Orleans Stanley S. Scott Cancer Research Center March 2015 03/01/2020 LSU Health Sciences Center – New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence April 2015 04/01/2020 LSU Health Sciences Center – New Orleans Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center of Excellence 2016 06/01/2021 LSU A&M and LSU AgCenter Center of Research Excellence in Plant Biotechnology and Crop Development October 2014 03/01/2021 McNeese State University Southwest Economic Entrepreneurial Development (SEED) Center for Workforce Excellence September 2014 12/01/2020 Sowela Technical Community College Industrial and Process Technology Center for Workforce Excellence December 2014 05/01/2021 RESEARCH CENTERS/INSTITUTES Institution Research Unit Title Initial Regents’ Approval End of Approval Period Delgado Community College Center for Advanced Manufacturing & Technology February 2015 06/01/2018
Louisiana Tech University Center for Entrepreneurship and Information Technology September 2002 10/01/2018 Louisiana Tech University Center for Information Assurance December 2007 06/30/2018 Louisiana Tech University Integrated STEM Education Research Center June 2008 08/01/2018 Louisiana Tech University The Professional Development and Research Institute in Blindness September 2001 06/01/2019 LSU A&M Center for Coastal Resiliency (originally: Hurricane Center) August 2000 10/31/2020 LSU A&M Center for Computation and Technology (CCT) May 2004 06/01/2018 LSU A&M Center for Gas Turbine Innovations and Energy Research September 2001 06/30/2018 LSU A&M Center for Geoinformatics June 2001 06/01/2018 LSU A&M Center for Internal Auditing February 1999 12/31/2019 LSU A&M Center for Rotating Machinery August 2000 12/31/2019 LSU A&M Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics January 2006 07/01/2021 LSU A&M Institute for Advanced Materials December 2013 03/01/2020 LSU A&M Leadership Development Institute August 2014 09/01/2019 LSU A&M Life Course and Aging Center (LCAC) May 2003 06/01/2018 LSU A&M Professional Sales Institute October 2014 10/31/2019 LSU A&M Reilly Center for Media and Public Affairs October 1999 06/01/2019 LSU A&M Stephenson Disaster Management Institute April 2007 07/01/2022 LSU A&M Transformational Technologies & Research Center 2015 04/01/2021 LSU A&M Ethics Institute (conditional approval) October 2017 12/01/2019 LSU A&M Social Research and Evaluation Center (SREC) December 2017 12/01/2022 LSU A&M Center for Collaborative Knowledge (conditional approval) January 2018 02/01/2019 LSU A&M (Pennington Biomedical Research Center) Institute for Dementia Research and Prevention October 2008 06/30/2018
University of Louisiana, Lafayette National Incident Management Systems and Advanced Technologies Institute (NIMSAT) October 2007 03/01/2018 University of Louisiana, Monroe Precision Agriculture and Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research & Applications Center April 2014 04/01/2020 University of Louisiana, Monroe Small Business Risk Management Institute December 2011 12/01/2019 University of Louisiana, Monroe Environmental Education and Research Center December 2016 01/01/2019 University of New Orleans Advanced Materials Research Institute December 2012 01/08/2023 University of New Orleans Center for Hazard Assessment Response and Technology June 2001 06/30/2018 University of New Orleans Ethyl & Herman Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies June 2017 07/01/2022 University of New Orleans Greater New Orleans Center for Information Assurance (GNOCIA) August 2009 06/30/2018 University of New Orleans Hospitality Research Center September 2001 02/01/2022 University of New Orleans Joseph Canizaro & James Livingston Gulf States Center for Environmental Informatics September 2015 09/30/2020 University of New Orleans Merritt C. Becker, Jr. UNO Transportation Institute (UNOTI) August 2001 09/01/2020 University of New Orleans National Center for Advanced Manufacturing (NCAM) September 2001 12/31/2019 University of New Orleans Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences June 2001 04/01/2022