Office ofResearch + Creative Activity
Catalyzing Research + Creative Practice
Our mission is simple: to act as a catalyst for faculty and students in attaining their research and creative practice ambitions, and to position these activities as a central component of the research enterprise at Penn State.
We aim to foster within the college a vibrant culture of inquiry that promotes excellence within our disciplines, while at the same time leveraging the potential of a comprehensive research university.
If you are a member of our community, we invite you to use the resources here to further your research agenda.
Please be in touch with the Research Office to discuss your research and creative practice needs.
Graduate research and creative achievements
Research Centers + Initiatives
The College of Arts and Architecture provides research space, funding and project development opportunities through a variety of Centers and Institutes.
A&A Sustainability
A&A Sustainability seeks to advance sustainability, integrating it into the college’s strategic plan and fostering it in teaching and learning, research, community engagement, and operations.
Arts and Design Research Incubator
ADRI coordinates and hosts a range of programming designed to foster, support, and broadly disseminate innovative arts, design, and health-focused research and practice.
Borland Project Space
Borland Project Space projects, workshops, and exhibitions move beyond traditional notions of exhibition, performance, and scholarly programming to reveal the processes and procedures of “arts research.”
C-PAD
C-PAD is a nexus for scholars, artists, designers, practitioners, and community members who share a common interest in learning and teaching through the arts.
Ecology + Design
E+D engages research-activated design intervention that seeks to significantly improve the ecological health of the designed world, particularly in the areas of biodiversity, energy, risk and hazard, and water systems.
Hamer Center for Community Design
The Hamer Center serves as a laboratory for community partnerships that integrate socio-economic and environmental conscious resolution to design and planning problems.
Stuckeman Center for Design Computing
The SCDC is a multidisciplinary community of researchers exploring computation as a subject of creative and scholarly inquiry in design across scales and modes of engagement
Studio for Sustainability + Social Action
Imagine the visual arts at Penn State with sustainability and social action at their core. S3A is dedicated to sustainability and a philosophical and moral call to social action through artistic practice.
News from A&A
Architecture graduate students earn Engineering for Change Research Fellowships
UNIVERSTY PARK, Pa. — Dima Abu-Aridah, Ali Ghazvinian and Tiffanie Leung, all graduate students in the Stuckeman School’s Department of Architecture, have been named 2021 Engineering for Change Research Fellows
Improv Showcase closes inaugural ‘Reflection Project’ course
