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When Great Minds Collaborate, Fresh Ideas Emerge

Waksman Institute of Microbiology

Centers & Institutes

Bring sharp thinkers together on an issue, and innovative solutions emerge. Great minds are the engines behind more than 200 Rutgers research centers and institutes, places that make important and lasting contributions to the world’s body of knowledge. These centers are often collaborative, interdisciplinary beehives of thought, where faculty and students from different fields, schools, and academic departments come together to attack and solve problems from all angles.

From the internationally acclaimed Waksman Institute of Microbiology to the innovative Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies to the unique Center for Children and Childhood Studies, Rutgers research centers have been forging solutions for nearly 130 years.

 
The Genetics of Disease

Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository The Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository explores the genetics of some of our most vexing medical threats—diabetes, mental disorders, and digestive, liver, and kidney diseases. To cover costs for a new space to carry out essential research, the repository recently received a $9.6 million construction grant under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, commonly called the federal stimulus. Learn more.

New British Studies Center Attracts Scholars across Many Fields

Shakespeare

Launched several years ago as the small-scale project of an enthusiastic band of humanities faculty, the Rutgers British Studies Center became a full-fledged center in 2010, bolstered by a $407,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The center’s workshops and lectures attract academics from Rutgers and other institutions across multiple fields, including history, English, anthropology, art history, and political science. Lecture topics this year range from “Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?” to “The Condition of Music” to “The Global Circulation of 19th-Century Literature.” Learn more.

The Eagleton Institute of Politics

Eagleton Institute of Politics

Florence Peshine Eagleton, a suffragist and founder of New Jersey’s League of Women Voters, made the bequest that established the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers in 1956. Today, Eagleton faculty and staff work closely with political practitioners and scholars from around the state and across the nation to accomplish Florence Eagleton’s ambitious goal: “the development of and education for responsible leadership in civic and governmental affairs and the solution of their political problems.”

Find a Center or Institute

From the Accounting Research Center to the Youth Sports Research Council, the alphabetical listing of centers and institutes illustrates the breadth of Rutgers research.
 

Off-Campus Facilities and Field Stations

Scientists, students, and visitors from around the world come to our off-campus facilities and research field stations to discover and explore and to advance human knowledge. To whet your appetite, we invite you to explore a sampling of off-campus facilities administered by the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station.

Cranberry Research for the Garden State


New Jersey is the third-largest cranberry producer in the United States. In the heart of the New Jersey Pinelands, where New Jersey cranberries are grown, is Rutgers’ Philip E. Marucci Center for Blueberry and Cranberry Research and Extension. The center helps New Jersey growers apply scientific principles to increasing crop yields, an urgent need as development restrictions in the environmentally sensitive Pinelands largely prohibit expansion and the establishment of new cranberry bogs. The center also develops cranberry pesticides that are safer than broad-spectrum formulas, now often banned due to health and environmental concerns, and studies the medicinal properties of cranberries, with recent research linking cranberry compounds to urinary tract health and more effective treatments for ovarian cancer.

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Advancing the Frontiers of Neuroscience

Researchers are making amazing new insights in the field of neuroscience, and among the pioneers are the scientists at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience. Founded in 1985 at Rutgers–Newark, the center is a hotbed of exploration into the complex workings of the brain and the molecular bases of neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Groundbreaking neuroscience research in areas as diverse as language-learning impairments and memory formation are transforming the field.

A Treasure Trove
Institute of Jazz Studies

Just as the Library of Congress is a shrine to bibliophiles, Rutgers’ Institute of Jazz Studies is the ultimate destination for those interested in one of America’s foremost contributions to world culture: jazz. Located in specialized facilities at Rutgers–Newark’s Dana Library, the institute houses the largest and most comprehensive library and archive of jazz and jazz-related materials in the world. In producing his PBS series, Jazz, renowned documentary filmmaker Ken Burns relied on the institute—which Burns called “one of the world’s great treasures”—and on the expertise of the institute’s esteemed director, jazz scholar and eight-time Grammy winner Dan Morgenstern.