A new interdisciplinary center at SIUC will draw on the talents of faculty and students across campus to develop and commercialize new products. The Center for Innovation, housed in the College of Business and Administration, will focus on research in innovation, education in entrepreneurship and technology commercialization, and regional economic development. The center will initially draw on SIUC faculty and student expertise in business, engineering, science, and law.

A second new center, the Center for Ecology, will involve faculty and students in the Colleges of Science, Agriculture, and Liberal Arts. The center will facilitate interdisciplinary, collaborative research in ecological systems and will foster information exchange between plant biologists, zoologists, agriculture and forestry experts, geographers, and microbiologists at the University.

Also up and running is the School of Law's Center for Health Law and Policy. This new center will address such issues as health care regulation, patient safety and medical liability, bioethics, public health, mental health, and food and drug law. It will focus on research and education, including collaborative interdisciplinary programs with the School of Medicine and the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute. The center complements the School of Law's longstanding health law program.

Finally, the new Center for Integrated Research in Cognitive and Neural Sciences will coordinate and advance collaborative interdisciplinary research by psychologists, physiologists, anatomists, and biomedical engineers into how the brain functions, how it mediates behavior, and how learning and development take place. The center will provide new educational benefits by training undergraduate, graduate, and medical students to use cross-disciplinary methods and research tools.

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