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Research at Rutgers

Research at Rutgers

The World's Molecular Library

The Protein Data Bank at Rutgers is the world's single repository for the three-dimensional structures of large molecules and nucleic acids. This free online archive of more than 50,000 molecule structures allows biological researchers and students to study, store, and share molecular information on a global scale, with implications for a wide range of research from HIV/AIDS to allergies to heart disease.

Research Highlight

Well-Applied Math
Since its inception 20 years ago, the renowned Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at Rutgers has moved beyond its early roots to embrace such diverse disciplines as life sciences, social sciences, and public policy. Learn more.

Insight into How We Form Memories

Insight into How We Form Memories A Rutgers–Newark and Collége de France, Paris, research team has pinpointed for the first time the mechanism that takes place during sleep that causes learning and memory formation to occur. Learn more.

As New Jersey’s premier public research university, Rutgers creates new knowledge, fueling economic progress, improving lives, and enriching our humanity. Autism. The ocean floor. Walt Whitman. Islamic art. DNA. Airport security. Supply chain management. Transportation safety. We explore it all, bound only by the reach of human imagination.

When one thinks of our nation’s most ambitious goals for turning research into ideas, products, and practices that take us all to new heights, one thinks of America’s great research universities. Rutgers is one of these greats. Rutgers is the only public university in New Jersey in the Association of American Universities (AAU), a group comprising North America’s 62 leading research universities. Rutgers and Princeton are New Jersey’s only AAU members.

 

Rutgers researchers …

Graduate and undergraduate students at Rutgers join in the pursuit of meaningful, original research, guided by faculty for whom discovery is a lifelong passion.