The Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station funds the work of faculty, staff, and students in dozens of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary academic and research centers that maximize the impact of MAES research dollars. Many of these centers include faculty from across multiple departments and colleges within the University of Minnesota as well as partners at other universities or at public and private organizations.
MAES funds work within the following academic and research centers:
- Bee and Pollinator Research Lab
- Center for Biorefining
- Center for Farm Financial Management
- Center for Forest Ecology
- Center for Integrated Natural Resource and Agricultural Management (CINRAM)
- Center for Urban Ecology and Sustainability
- College of Biological Sciences Conservatory
- Food Industry Center
- Forest Pathology and Wood Microbiology Research Laboratory
- GEMS
- Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives
- Institute on the Environment (IonE)
- International Science and Technology Practice and Policy Center (InSTePP)
- Joseph J. Warthesen Food Processing Center
- Leatherdale Equine Center
- Meat Science Laboratory
- Midwest Dairy Foods Research Center
- Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center (MAISRC)
- Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA)
- Minnesota Invasive Terrestrial Plants and Pests Center (MITPPC)
- Minnesota Obesity Prevention Center
- National Center for Food Protection and Defense
- Plant Breeding Center
- Plant Protein Innovation Center
- Precision Agriculture Center
- Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory
- Sensory Center
- Soil Testing & Research Analytical Laboratory
- Stakman-Borlaug Center for Sustainable Plant Health
- The Raptor Center
- TROE Turfgrass Research and Outreach Center
- Urban Forestry Outreach, Research & Extension Nursery
- Water Resources Center