Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender and Women's Studies
The Institute for Gender and Women's Studies is a multipurpose and interdisciplinary research center that serves scholars interested in gender and women's studies in the Middle East/North Africa, South Asia and Africa.
Desert Development Center
The Desert Development Center conducts research on ecologically sound and sustainable land development, trains desert settlers and investors, and serves desert communities by interacting with the people, offering extension services, disseminating valuable results, providing new crop varieties and techniques.
Center for Migration and Refugee Studies
The Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at AUC boasts a dynamic and multi-faceted research program focused on three broad areas of interest: Forced Migrants and Refugees in Urban Centers of the 'South' Immigration, Nationality and Refugee Law and Policy in the Arab Middle East, and Health and Reproductive Health and Urban Refugees.
John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement
Established in honor of AUC's former president, the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement consolidates university activities aimed at encouraging engaged citizenship and service, and promotes philanthropic giving in the Arab region. Combining learning, research, service and advocacy, the center works to expand the boundaries of philanthropy, moving it beyond charity toward social justice and development.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research
The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research serves as a catalyst for independent research in American studies both within the university and with the outside community by providing intellectual and information resources to support those wishing to study the United States more fully.
Science and Technology Research Center
The Science and Technology Research Center supports a variety of nanoscience and technology- oriented projects. Research activities are centered around generic imaging, analysis and fabrication equipment and focus on nanomaterials characterization, and design and fabrication of micro-opto-electromechanical systems.
Social Research Center
The Social Research Center conducts and encourages multidisciplinary social science research in Egypt and the Arab region, trains researchers, and guides and assists graduate students, scholars and organizations engaged in social science research in the region.
Economic and Business History Research Center (EBHRC)
Business history may be defined as a nexus of variably incorporated social sciences bound by demonstrable behavior of economic actors in history. It is the docility of the field of business history, and the variability of the material presented under its auspices, that enabled EBHRC to proceed with the task of chronicling 20th century political economy of Egypt through the history of enterprise and governance in a way that best suited the prevailing conditions. In this way business history released the center from the ivory tower to which many historians remain confined. Ground level turned out to be a fine place to start. Hence, the method of oral history.