Centres, Institutes and Related Infrastructure
Acadia University's research environment encourages student and faculty researchers to work closely together to answer important questions. We support this research with a variety of centres, institutes, and facilities.
For a small university, Acadia offers a remarkable array of opportunities, including custom-built laboratories and a private island wildlife reserve. Many of Acadia's research spaces have been recently modernized, most notably the revamped Acadia Science Complex and its new Huestis Innovation Pavilion. Our campus also boasts a number of innovation and incubation spaces, as well as laboratories that provide unique services to industry, like the Acadia Laboratory for AGRI-Food and Beverage and the motion Laboratory of Applied Biomechanics.
Research at Acadia is known for being highly collaborative and interdisciplinary. Many Acadia researchers establish connections across disciplinary and industry boundaries, exploring problems from multiple angles and forming meaningful partnerships with other scholars and organizations along the way.
Acadia's Research Centres and Institutes
- Acadia Laboratory for Agri-Food and Beverage (ALAB)
- Acadia Centre for Estuarine Research (ACER)
- Acadia Centre for Microstructural Analysis (ACMA)
- Acadia Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computation (ACMMaC)
- Centre of Lifestyle Studies (CoLS)
- Centre for the Sensory Research of Food (CSRF)
- Centre for Analytical Research on the Environment (CARE)
- Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies (ACBAS)
- Acadia Tidal Energy Institute (ATEI)
- Acadia Institute for Data Analytics (AIDA)
- Acadia University's Planter Studies Centre (AUPSC)
CFI-Funded Research Labs
- Chemical Analysis and Bio-imaging Laboratory (CABL) (Hillier)
- Psychomotor Behaviour Lab (Shields)
- Lab for Eukaryotic Microbiology & Parasitology (Smith)
- Plant Developmental Morphology & Systematics Laboratory (Evans)
- Environmental Biogeochemistry Lab (O'Driscoll & Murimboh)
- John McIntyre Motion Lab of Applied Biomechanics (Landry)
- Centre for Public Culture (Trofanenko)
- Infrastructure to enhance the cognitive neuroscience of reading and speech processing lab (Newman)
Field Stations
- Evelyn and Morrill Richardson Field Station in Biology, Bon Portage Island
- Beaubassin Field Station — Watch video
- Morton Centre