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As part of the Division of Continuing Studies, the Center for Mathematics, Sciences and Computer Education has a mission to improve mathematics, science, and computer education programs in New Jersey and across the nation. The center fosters collaboration among educators, business leaders, practitioners, and researchers to enhance the learning and teaching of mathematics and science and to show how technology can contribute to these goals. 

As part of the School of Arts and Sciences, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies is an interdisciplinary center composed of faculty drawn from the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. The center hosts public events throughout the academic year that foster academic and cultural engagement with issues relevant to the study of the Middle East region and its peoples. The center is also home to the Middle Eastern Studies Program, which offers an undergraduate major and minor, through which students are able to study with faculty experts in many different disciplines.

As part of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, the Center for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution is at the forefront of a movement that believes disputes can be settled by constructive negotiation and consensus-building and problem-solving approaches instead of by force or adversarial argument. The center’s mission comprises education, training, research, and direct services in preventing and resolving disputes. It serves as a resource both in and outside New Jersey for those interested in negotiation and the theory and practice of conflict resolution.

The Center for Nutrition, Microbiome, and Health at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences brings together a diverse range of experts at Rutgers and beyond to facilitate collaborations. The center aims to aggregate multidisciplinary efforts in basic science and clinical research to understand how nutrition and microbiome work together to impact human health and diseases, and importantly to translate the findings into applications in both the clinical setting and everyday life.

The Center for Psychological Services (CPS) is a state-of-the-art outpatient training center and a community-based center within the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP) providing confidential mental health services for a wide range of populations, disorders, and difficulties. CPS is comprised of a main clinic offering assessments and psychotherapeutic services, as well as an array of specialty clinics. The center serves children, adolescents, and adults from Rutgers University and the surrounding communities.

The Center for Quantitative Biology at the School of Arts and Sciences enables scientific exchanges and collaborations between faculty residing in different academic departments who are interested in quantitative modeling of biological phenomena. Research interests of the center's faculty members comprise both experimental and theoretical approaches and range from evolutionary dynamics, stochastic processes in biology, and single-molecule biophysics to modeling onset and progression of cancer.

Rutgers Business School is committed to developing women leaders for tomorrow’s evolving workforce through innovation, education, and community-building opportunities. The Center for Women in Business was created to support and fulfill this vision. The goal of the center is to create a thought leadership loop between students, alumnae, corporations, and faculty so that all groups benefit from the programs developed by the center to advance women in business. Our mission is to develop women business leaders by removing barriers and empowering them with the confidence and expertise necessary to enter and succeed in a continuously evolving workforce.

The Center for Women and Work (CWW) at the School of Management and Labor Relations is a leader in research, education, and programs that promote economic and social equity for women workers, their families, and their communities. CWW addresses women's advancement in the workplace, conducts cutting-edge research on successful public and workplace policies, provides technical assistance and programs to educators, industry, and governments, and engages issues that directly affect the living standards of New Jersey's and the nation's working families.

The Center for Youth Social Emotional Wellness is a cross-disciplinary center and a community-based center within the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP) that works in partnership with the Brandt Center with the goal of bringing together researchers, community and business leaders, and mental health providers from psychology, social work, education, psychiatry and other disciplines to develop holistic and comprehensive strategies to address the significant mental health inequities among young people that exist in New Jersey and nationally.

The mission of the Ceramic, Composite, Optical Materials Center (CCOMC) at the School of Engineering is to develop new, interdisciplinary technologies to increase the level of ceramic and particulate science, technology, and engineering and to transfer these technologies to its industrial members to foster the development of competitive, reproducible ceramic and composite materials, for advanced, high-performance systems.