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The Rutgers Center for Lipid Research is part of the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health that promotes multidisciplinary research on the biochemical, biophysical, cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in lipid metabolism, and extending this information to the underpinnings of lipid-based diseases such as obesity, lipodystrophy, diabetes, and heart disease. The center's research utilizes model organisms, cells, and tissues, and state-of-the-art instrumentation.

The Rutgers Center for Organizational Leadership is a national leader and resource for Rutgers University and the higher education community. The center provides a portfolio of offerings for current and aspiring academic and administrative leaders seeking to development and enhance their leadership, communication, and organizational competencies. As a hub for academic leadership development research and initiatives, the center's signature offerings aim to improve individual and collective leadership capacity and cultivate a culture of leadership development across the university.

The Rutgers EcoComplex "Clean Energy Innovation Center" is dedicated to moving inventions from the lab to successful real-world applications and to promote New Jersey as a center for clean energy and environmental innovations and enterprises.

The Rutgers Energy Institute integrates Rutgers’ expertise in science, engineering, economics, and policy and puts it at the forefront of alternative energy research. REI is engaged in four principal areas of activity: education of undergraduate and graduate students; pioneering research; outreach to the community to share information and engage the public; and policy advice to government, business, and civic leaders who require current knowledge about energy use, alternatives, and innovations to guide decision-making and public planning.

The Rutgers English Diversity Institute (REDI), founded by Professor Cheryl A. Wall, is a one-week summer program at Rutgers–New Brunswisk. REDI is designed for advanced college students and recent graduates whose cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds may contribute to diversity in the fields of English and American literary studies. REDI encourages students to attend graduate school and pursue careers as teachers and scholars in the field. 

New Jersey has only one media arts center programming year-round—offering over 100 annual film screenings and events: the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, which draws thousands of viewers from throughout New Jersey by providing an alternative media culture. The Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC is dedicated to the noncommercial exhibition of independent, classic, international, and experimental films and videos. 

The Rutgers Financial Institution Center at Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick lmarshals the intellectual resources of the region in examining the relevant issues facing the finance industry. The center exists to promote research on financial institutions and to act as a think tank and interface between practicing professionals, regulators, professors, and undergraduate and graduate students. The center seeks to serve industry leaders and practicing professionals through research conducted by the center and conferences on topical issues of concern to the industry.

The Food Innovation Center is a unique food business incubator and accelerator part of the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES). The center supports established early-stage entrepreneurs and existing food companies from concept to commercialization. Combining years of industry expertise and the advanced technologies offered by Rutgers, the center provides business, marketing, food safety, product design, and scale up expertise within FDA and USDA certified facilities to help companies successfully build and grow their business.

As part of the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, the Rutgers Fruit and Ornamental Research Extension Center conducts and disperses research applicable to the production of high-quality trees and small fruits, including apples, peaches, apricots, nectarines, brambles, strawberries, and ornamental nursery crops. The center increases production efficiency and protects fruit crops against environmental and biological hazards, while decreasing production costs and pesticide use.

Rutgers Global is committed to leading, developing, and promoting international initiatives and education. The unit fosters global engagement that enriches the student experience, builds faculty excellence, and enhances Rutgers University’s national and international reputation as a preeminent teaching and research university. Rutgers Global nurtures the diversity of Rutgers and New Jersey, advances cross-cultural awareness, and cultivates citizens and leaders whose knowledge and skills can bridge the local and global.