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The New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health (IFNH) underscores the commitment of the university to new transformational initiatives across the many disciplines impacting food, nutrition, and health. IFNH draws on the strengths of the entire university as it physically co-locates and strategically aligns the diverse competencies and deep capacity of Rutgers to address society's major unmet health problems. In this complex world, the institute embraces a culture of interdisciplinarity that seeks solutions to our health problems in the social as well as the biological determinants of health.

As part of the School of Nursing, the Northeast Institute for Evidence Synthesis and Translation is a center of excellence with the International Joanna Briggs Institute dedicated to conducting and facilitating systematic reviews of international research an identifying areas where health professionals most urgently require summarized evidence on which to base their practice.

The Northeast Structural Genomics is one of the four large-scale NIH-funded structural genomics centers of the protein structure initiative. The academic research consortium employs both x-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy to determine the three-dimensional structures of novel proteins. The consortium's protein structures provide novel structural information useful in modeling thousands protein domains.

The goal of the Nucleic Acid Database Project is to archive and distribute structural information about nucleic acids. The online database contains information about experimentally-determined nucleic acids and complex assemblies. For more information, contact ndbadmin@ndbserver.rutgers.edu.

The Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC) is the university’s centralized research computing and data science resource. Reporting to both the Office of Information Technology and the Office for Research, OARC provides Rutgers researchers with essential computing, networking, storage, and data-handling capabilities, and students with necessary exposure and training, through centralized resources, services, and education.

Within the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine, the Center for Oral Infectious Diseases is a modern, state-of-art basic research science facility whose faculty members investigate both host mediated and bacterially-mediated factors that contribute to the cause of various oral diseases by biochemical, immunological, and microbiological means.

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Rutgers University (OLLI-RU) is for individuals over 50 years old who are looking for an opportunity to expand their horizons, learn in an engaging environment, and meet new friends. OLLI-RU offers noncredit education that is stimulating, friendly, and informal–there are no tests and no grades! You will be part of a learning community that is full of diversity, insight, wisdom, intellectual and cultural stimulation, and friendship.

The Philip E. Marucci Center for Blueberry and Cranberry Research and Extension is a subdivision of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station of Rutgers located in Chatsworth, New Jersey (Burlington County). The center develops and distributes research to ensure the continued production of high-quality blueberries and cranberries.

As part of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, the Ralph W. Voorhees Center for Civic Engagement is a collaboration of university faculty, students, and community development actors that seek to enhance educational opportunities, facilitate innovative research, and build community development capacity. Faculty and students work in collaboration with local actors to conduct innovative original research, publish in peer review journals, and present research locally and at academic conferences.

The mission of the Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis is to advance the development and application of geospatial information science and technology (remote sensing, geographic information systems, global positioning systems, computer simulation modeling) to address issues in the built and natural environment both locally and globally. As a multi-disciplinary research center our objective is to bring the best information to bear in place-based decision-making with the broader goal of promoting sound land, coastal and marine planning, natural resource and agricultural management.