Research, scholarly activity and teaching in the College of Arts & Sciences is often interdisciplinary and international in scope. Centers and institutes bring together faculty from various Ohio University colleges and programs. Arts & Sciences faculty and students are leaders and colleagues in the following Centers and Institutes.
- African American Research & Service Institute
- Astrophysical Institute
- Center for International Studies
- Center for Intervention Research in Schools
- Center for Law, Justice & Culture
- Central Region Humanities Center
- Charles J. Ping Institute for the Teaching of the Humanities (inter-college)
- Contemporary History Institute
- The Institute for Applied & Professional Ethics (inter-college)
- Institute for the Empirical Study of Language (inter-college)
- Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics
- Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute
- Ohio Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies (OCEES)
- Ohio Program of Intensive English (OPIE)
- Ohio University Center of Ring Theory and its Applications
- Quantitative Biology Institute