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The Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences is an interdisciplinary community that fosters research, education, and outreach about the Earth's interior, continents, oceans, atmosphere, and biosphere, their interactions, and co-evolution through our planet's history, and humanity's dependence and impacts upon these systems. Among the many initiatives and facilities within the institute's community are cutting-edge research and instruction on assessing and managing the risks that climate change and habitat change create for communities, economies, and ecosystems; one of the world’s leading integrated oceanic and atmospheric observation and prediction systems; and active oceanographic, ecological and glaciological field programs in the Arctic and the Antarctic.

As part of the Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick, the Institute for Ethical Leadership is dedicated to the study of leadership ethics and to programs for students and practitioners that aim to cultivate the knowledge and imagination to exercise ethical and effective leadership.

The Institute for Families at the School of Social Work has a mission to support and strengthen families and communities by increasing the capacity of human service professionals and organizations. The institute achieves this through training, technical assistance, professional development, applied research and evaluation, and direct service and advocacy.

The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research facilitates collaboration among the social and behavioral sciences, clinical disciplines, basic sciences, and related fields to promote research on critical population health issues. The institute is comprised of three major divisions, four centers, a community health collaborative, a research group, an undergraduate research training program, and a national program office funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases at New Jersey Medical School is a hub for centers of excellence that pursue novel approaches to detect, treat, and prevent a wide range of current and emerging diseases caused by infectious agents and harmful inflammation. Research at the institute focuses on the breakthrough field that examines the link between infectious and inflammatory diseases.

As part of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the Institute for Neurological Therapeutics has a mission to promote translational research to illuminate the pathogenesis of chronic incurable neurodegenerative disorders and develope novel therapies. The institute provides an environment for training graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and physician scientists in translational research in neurological therapeutics. Undergraduates, medical students, and neurology residents or trainees from other departments who wish to explore research opportunities in neurologic diseases also rotate through institute's laboratories

The Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine brings basic and applied researchers together with clinicians pursuing grand challenges in biomedical research using quantitative tools of measurement and analysis from chemistry, computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, and statistics.

The Institute for Research on Women (IRW) advances interdisciplinary scholarship on gender, sexuality and women. Part of the School of Arts and Sciences, IRW was founded in the mid-1970s by faculty and administrators seeking to expand feminist scholarship and activism beyond the university’s fledgling women’s studies program. Today, IRW supports a broad range of programming designed to stimulate research and activism on gender, sexuality, and women within and across the disciplines throughout and beyond Rutgers.

The Institute for the Study of Child Development is a research center within the Department of Pediatrics at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. The institute's faculty is comprised of psychologists, educators, and other professionals interested in understanding and facilitating the development of children and their families. The institute seeks to understand individual children by studying normal and atypical development patterns.

The Institute for Teaching, Innovation, and Inclusive Pedagogy facilitates initiatives, provides services, and shares resources that advance teaching and learning at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. The institute offers services to instructors of all appointment types, ranks, and disciplines including consultations, school and departmental support, and course observations.