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  • Institutes

    • Advanced Biological Studies Group
      • The Advanced Biological Studies Group turns Alan into a perfect inhabitant of the planet Theta. (Episode The Architects of Fear)

    • Akira Advanced Genetics Research Unit
      • Medical organization. Dr. Surmak Ren, former member of the Higa Metar sect of the Bajoran Underground, was a member, noted for his work in viral function studies. (Season 1 episode Babel)

    • The Andre Sandrov Center for Cryogenics
      • When Fargo's grandfather is revived from a cryogenic pod, it is revealed that the famous Eureka scientist Andre Sandrov took credit for Pierre Fargo's work, and the center that was named after him is renamed after Pierre Fargo. (Season 2 episode Family Reunion)

    • Androids-R-Us
      • Lab where Sledge Hammer and Doreau go looking for information about androids, and meet Dr. Arthur Deco. (Season 2 episode Hammeroid)

    • Ansible
      • Private intelligence firm that machine number and FBI Agent Nicholas Donnelly mentions. (Season 2 episode Prisoner's Dilemma)

    • Arboria Institute
      • New Age research facility founded by Dr. Mercurio Arboria to explore the boundary between science and spirituality and bring humankind toward a form of enlightenment using benign pharmacology, sensory therapy, and energy sculpting.

    • Arnold Sinclair Institute for Child Development
      • 4400 Heather Tobey's new school. (Season 4 episode Audrey Parker's Come and Gone)

    • Atlanta Plague Center
      • Somebody had slipped. Either that, or the disease that Charles D. Campion had brought to Arnette was a lot more communicable than anyone had guessed. Either way, the integrity of the Atlanta Plague Center had been breached, and Stu thought that everyone who had been there was now getting a chance to do a little firsthand research on the virus they called A-Prime or the superflu.

    • Barbeau Observatory
      • Research facility in the Arctic Circle that is all but abandoned in February 2049, three weeks after a cataclysmic event that wipes out most of the Earth's population with powerful radiation.

    • Barnacle Bay Oceanographic Institute
      • Institute that Marge and Lisa visit in Barnacle Bay. Yes, we make change for parking. (Season 18 episode The Wife Aquatic)

    • Barringer Hypnosis Institute
      • Institute in Tarzana, California where achine number and certified hypnotherapist Hayden Price received his training. (Season 3 episode The Perfect Mark)

    • The Belmont Bevatron
      • While on a visit to the Belmont Bevatron, eight people become stuck in a series of subtly and not-so-subtly unreal worlds.

    • Berkeley Nuclear Biotechnology Institute
      • No description available

    • Biotest
      • Jimbo Scott steals a monkey from Biotest and tried to sell it to pet shop owner Rudy Alvarez of Rudy's Pet Shop in Cedar Creek, California.

    • Borg Artifact Research Institute
      • Romulan organization overseeing the Romulan Reclamation Site, the research facility established inside a derelict Borg cube.

    • The Brandenburg Institute for Evolutionary Genetics
      • Institute that partnered with I.S.A. To create the bio-vault aboard the Elysium.

    • Cabbage Research Centre
      • Located on the fringes of Big Cabbage, dedicated to the scientific study and promulgation of knowledge of all sorts of brassica.

    • Cambridge Primate Research Centre
      • Institute where activists release monkeys infected with the Rage virus.

    • Carl Sagan Institute
      • Scientific institute on the clone world where Quinn's counterpart works in the quantum lab. (Season 4 episode My Brother's Keeper)

    • The Center for Democratic Studies
      • Willard skims through a document near end of the film that was "Commissioned by The Center For Democratic Studies, Santa Barbara, California".

    • The Center for Global Progress
      • Organization that Homer imagines when Lisa says the phrase "Think tank”. (Season 19 episode E Pluribus Wiggum)

    • Christian Science Reading Room
      • Scientific facility destroyed during the Springfield residents' riot against science. (Season 9 episode Lisa the Skeptic)

    • The College of Emotional Engineering
      • The various Bureaux of Propaganda and the College of Emotional Engineering were housed in a single sixty-story building in Fleet Street.

    • The Coolidge Institute
      • The NSA hires Martin Bishop and his team to investigate mathematician Dr. Gunter Janek and the mysterious Russian funded project he's working on at the Coolidge Institute think tank called Setec Astronomy that's creating some sort of little black box.

    • Crystal Lake Research Facility
      • In the year 2010, Jason Voorhees is captured by the United States government and held at the Crystal Lake Research Facility.

    • CURI
      • Pierre Ruskin's dream factory in Oakland where private detective Karim Washington goes looking for Michelle. (Season 2 episode Angel of Death)
      • Institute from various episodes.
      • Sisko mentions the Daystrom Institute to Vash, suggesting that they would be interested in learning more about her adventures in the Gamma Quadrant, and encouraging her to return to Earth. (Season 1 episode Q-Less)
      • Famed terraformer Professor Gideon Seyetik asks Sisko to send the obituary he wrote for himself to the Daystrom Institute for publication. (Season 2 episode Second Sight)
      • There is a letter to Captain Picard from the Daystrom Institute in the Picard family album. (Star Trek: Generations Special Edition DVD Bonus Feature)
      • Picard travels to the Daystrom Institute in Okinawa, where he discovers that the synthetic being known as Dahj may be Data's daughter through an experimental procedure known as fractal neuronic cloning – meaning she is an android with an organic body but a positronic brain. (Season 1 episode Remembrance)

    • Decima Technologies
      • Private intelligence firm initially believed by Harold Finch as having developed a virus designed to infect the Machine. (Season 2 episode Trojan Horse)

    • Delos Research Group
      • Division of The Delos Corporation, the name on top of Delos' baseline interview form. (Season 2 episode The Riddle of the Sphinx)

    • The Dharma Initiative
      • Fictional research project with the objective of altering any of the six factors of the Valenzetti Equation, an equation which "predicts the exact number of years and months until humanity extinguishes itself," to allow humans to exist for longer by changing their doomsday. DHARMA = Department of Heuristics and Research on Material Applications.

    • Divinity and Water Polo
      • Religious institute. When the Infinite Improbability Drive arrived and whole planets started turning unexpectedly into banana fruitcake, the great history faculty of the University of MaxiMegalon finally gave up, closed itself down and surrendered its buildings to the rapidly growing joint faculty of Divinity and Water Polo, which had been after them for years.

    • The Donnelly Institute
      • Special school in Georgia where Harry recommends Max's parents send him. (Season 1 episode Love Language)

    • Duk-Hee Genetic Institute
      • Where murder suspect Roland David Barrett's research contributed to the creation of synthetic life on the cellular level. (Season 3 episode Marionette)

    • Duke Phillips Agricultural Institute
      • "We use nuclear technology to grow fresher tomatoes, bigger carrots and potatoes that play the bagpipes" (Season 2 episode Dukerella)

    • Dyad Institute
      • Institution devoted to research for the advancement of biotechnology and is promoting Neolution, a scientific organization pushing the scientific limits of human evolution.

    • Epsilon Science Station
      • Also known as The Scientists' Playground. Captain Mercer's first mission on the Orville is delivering supplies to the science station on Epsilon 2 (Season 1 episode Old Wounds)

    • The Farm
      • After a transporter accident, Boimler is sent to the Farm, a facility described as a great medical spa on Endicronimas V that's run by Division 14, which handles unsolvable space illnesses and science mysteries. (Season 1 episode Much Ado About Boimler)

    • The Foreign Language Institute
      • Company that sends Lisa her German verb wheel in the mail. (Season 8 episode The Canine Mutiny)

    • The Freecloud Institute of Entertainment Robotics
      • Service advertised in Stardust City on Freecloud. (Season 1 episode Stardust City Rag)

    • Genetic Primate Research Center
      • Institute where Dan works - and gives a Dawn of the Planet of the Apes-style intelligence drug to apes.

    • Geospatial Predictive Analytics, LLC
      • Small tech company owned by Elizabeth Bridges, whom Finch meets while attending a conference in Hong Kong. (Season 4 episode The Pretenders)

    • GERD
      • Global Enterprise for Research and Development - shady think tank with ties to the highest levels of government that bought the mind-files from Eloise. They were around before the acronym for the heartburn condition. (Season 1 episode Fundamentals of Naked Portraiture)

    • Grand Telescope Array
      • The moon's largest facility for extra-terrestrial research.

    • The Granular Project
      • Research institute that developed Project Swarm, the program that created ADIs - Autonomous Drone Insects (Season 3 episode Hated in the Nation)

    • The Hanso Foundation
      • The Hanso Foundation pursues social and scientific research for the advancement of the human race. The major benefactor of the Dharma Initiative.

    • The Hayes Institute
      • Medical research and development facility in Cambodia that focuses on pediatric cancer was funded through a $150 million donation from Mr. Hayes.

    • Huron River Institute for the Blind
      • Institute where Jarod pretends to be a doctor. (Season 1 episode Potato Head Blues)

    • Institute for Animal Reproductive Studies
      • Institute where Jarod studied the chimpanzees, where Miss Parker, Sydney and Boots go looking for him. (Season 4 episode Risque Business)

    • Institute for Case Studies
      • Institute where Charlie Sheen's children have been staying since his death.

    • The Institute for the Preservation of Motion Picture Costumes and Wardrobe
      • Where Kramer's friend works, also known as the I.P.M.P.C.W. according to Kramer. Also known as The Institute, according to Mr. Haarwood. (Season 7 episode The Gum)

    • Institute for the Study of Emotional Stress
      • Tall building with a professor is shown having just been thrown backwards out of a window on the top floor.

    • The Institute for Trans Dimensional Studies
      • Institute owned by Veidt Enterprises experimenting with teleportation windows, opening portals to other dimensions, when the giant alien squid appeared. (Season 1 episode Little Fear of Lightning)

    • The Institute of Applied Cybernetics
      • The Institute that had complete control over the network before the war.

    • Institute of Archeology
      • Ul Qoman institute where the murdered American girl Mahalia Geary applied, successfully, to become a PhD student, and was attached to the Bol'Yean dig.

    • The Institute of Shut Your Fat Face
      • When the warden of the Springfield Juvenile Correctional Facility claims that juveniles who know how to fox-trot are 10% less likely to commit a double homicide and someone asks who conducted the study, he responds, "The Institute of Shut Your Fat Face!" (Season 15 episode The Wandering Juvie)

    • The Institute of Space Physics
      • Institute brought into to investigate and explain the disappearance and reappearance of the spaceship Taimyr.

    • Institute of Temporal Anomalies
      • Scientists from NASA and the Institute of Temporal Anomalies interview a trio of time travelers. A portal opened while they were watching Showtime, sending two of them into the future to meet the future government called The Council of Humanity and were taken to a place called the Oculus that was a gateway to other solar systems. The third person was sent back to caveman times. Sketch A Journey Through Time.

    • The Institute
      • Mysterious organization that studies children with telepathic and telekinetic abilities. Iris nicknames it "Mrs. Sigby's Home for Wayward Psychic Children".

    • The Ironwood Institute
      • Institute that turns out to be for nudists where Bob gives a lecture. (Season 5 episode The Ironwood Experience)

    • Iscandar Seldon Institute of Psychohistory
      • Mentioned in the end credits... SPECIAL THANKS: Queen Starsha of Iscandar Seldon Institute of Psychohistory Xavier's Institute of Gifted Youngsters Karova Milk Bar, Yonada - the store, not the asteroid, WWII Hero Pug Henry.
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