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 …
- lead the single worldwide repository for three-dimensional protein structures, a free, online library to study, store, and share molecular information;
- are chief archivists for the papers of inventor Thomas Edison and suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony;
- discovered ancient footprints that show some of the earliest humans walked like us 1.5 million years ago;
- issue the nation’s annual report card on state-funded preschool education;
- built and run one of the world’s largest open-access labs for testing new wireless technology;
- run the Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT), one of only 15 Tier 1 University Transportation Centers in the nation. CAIT is the prime contractor for the Federal Highway Administration's Long-Term Bridge Performance Program, a national initiative to ensure the safety and longevity of America's 590,00 bridges;
- founded the world's largest university-based repository of DNA and cell lines to study schizophrenia, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and other diseases; and
- stand out in nutrition research, education, and outreach, including running the nation's only university-based nutritional sciences preschool dedicated to teaching and researching healthy eating habits to children ages 3 to 5. To focus on obesity and its associated diseases, Rutgers has just established the Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health with a four-year, $10 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Graduate and undergraduate students at Rutgers join in the pursuit of meaningful, original research, guided by faculty for whom discovery is a lifelong passion.
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.
