It just amazes me that so much research goes on at the major universities in our country. Just a tiny fraction of the discoveries that are made ever make the news headlines yet every discovery contributes to our knowledge of the world God created and its inhabitants.

With Benjamin Franklin as its founder and first president, it’s no wonder that the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia has become one of the premier research universities in the nation. Here is the list of research programs going on “Penn”; everything from ancient studies to AIDS to smell and taste, anxiety and family violence.

• Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute
• Ackoff Center for Advancement of Systems Approaches (ACASA)
  
• Alice Paul Center for Research on Women and Gender
  
• Ancient Studies Center
  
• Anneberg Public Policy Center
  
• Bioengineering Research Labs
  
• Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research
  
• Campbell Collaboration
  
• Cartographic Modeling Lab
  
• Cell & Developmental Biology
  
• Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
  
• Center for Advanced Study of India
  
• Center for AIDS Research
  
• Center for Animal Health and Productivity
  
• Center for Animal Transgenesis and Germ Cell Research
  
• Center for Bioethics
  
• Center for Bioinformatics
  
• Center for Brain Injury and Repair
  
• Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
  
• Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
  
• Center for Cognitive Therapy
  
• Center for Computer Analysis of Texts (CCAT)
  
• Center for Digestive, Liver and Pancreatic Diseases
  
• Center for East Asian Studies
  
• Center for Excellence in Environmental Toxicology
  
• Center for Functional Neuroimaging
  
• Center for Genetics and Complex Traits
  
• Center for Greater Philadelphia
  
• Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research
  
• Center for Healthcare Improvement & Patient Safety
  
• Center for Human Modeling and Simulation
  
• Center for Human Resources
  
• Center for International Comparisons
  
• Center for Leadership and Change Management
  
• Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research
  
• Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research (CNDR)
  
• Center for Neuroscience and Society
  
• Center for Nursing Research
  
• Center for Particle Cosmology
  
• Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing
  
• Center for Public Health Initiatives
  
• Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society
  
• Center for Research on Reproduction and Women’s Health
  
• Center for School Study Councils
  
• Center for Sensor Technologies
  
• Center for Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology
  
• Center for Teaching and Learning
  
• Center for the Interaction of Animals and Society
  
• Center for the Study of the History of Nursing
  
• Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety
  
• Center for Undergrad Research and Fellowships
  
• Center for Urban Ethnography
  
• Center for Veterinary Critical Care
  
• Chemical Heritage Foundation
  
• Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics
  
• Computational Biology and Informatics Laboratory
  
• Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE)
  
• Data Mining Group
  
• David Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences
  
• Distributed Systems Laboratory
  
• Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center on Family Violence
  
• Fels Center of Government
  
• Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management
  
• General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Lab (GRASP lab)
  
• Hartford Center for Geriatric Nursing Excellence
  
• Inst. For Environmental Medicine
  
• Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism
  
• Institute for Environmental Studies
  
• Institute for Law and Economics (ILE)
  
• Institute for Medicine and Engineering
  
• Institute for Regenerative Medicine
  
• Institute for Research in Cognitive Science
  
• Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT)
  
• Institute on Aging
  
• International Literacy institute (ILI)
  
• Italian Studies Center
  
• Jerry Lee Center on Criminology
  
• Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies
  
• Kleinman Center for Energy Policy
  
• Laboratory for Biological Research in Nursing
  
• Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM)
  
• LDI Center for Health Incentives
  
• Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
  
• Linguistic Data Consortium
  
• Logic and computation Group
  
• Mari Lowe Center for Comparative Oncology Research
  
• McNeil Center for Early American Studies
  
• Metabolic Magnetic Resonance Research and Computing Center
  
• Middle East Center
  
• Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology
  
• Nano/Bio Interface Center
  
• Singh Center for Nanotechnology
  
• National Center on Adult Literacy
  
• National center on Fathers and Families
  
• NIH Center for Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Diseases
  
• Out-of-School Time Resource Center
  
• Penn Cardiovascular Institute (Penn CVI)
  
• Penn Humanities Forum
  
• Penn Institute for Economic Research
  
• Penn Institute for Urban Research
  
• Penn Language Center
  
• Paul F Harron Lung Center
  
• Penn Medicine Transplant Institute
  
• PennGen Medical Genetics
  
• Pennsylvania Muscle Institute
  
• Pension Research Council
  
• Population Studies Center
  
• Positive Psychology Center
  
• Premenstrual Syndrome Program
  
• Prevention Research Center
  
• Real-Time Systems Group
  
• Reginald H. Jones center for Management Policy, Strategy, and Organization
  
• Regional Laser and Biotechnology Laboratory
  
• Research and Evaluation of Social Policy
  
• Research Center in Oral Biology
  
• Risk Management and Decision Processes Center
  
• Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research
  
• Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate Center
  
• SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management
  
• Smell and Taste Center
  
• Social Science Data Center
  
• Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Center
  
• SwitchWare Project
  
• T.C. Chan Center for Building and Energy Studies
  
• The Center of Neurobiology and Behavior (CNB)
  
• The Eldridge Reeves Johnson Foundation for Molecular Biophysics
• The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research
  

• Treebank Project
  
• University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
  
• Walter Flato Goodman Center for Comparative Medical Genetics
  
• Wharton Financial Institutions Center
  
• Wharton Global Family Alliance
  
• Wharton Small Business Development Center
  
• Wharton Sports Business Initiative
  
• William and Phyllis Mack Center for Technological Innovation
  
• Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research