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CUPR, a component of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, is nationally and internationally recognized for its research on affordable housing, land use policy, environmental impact analysis, state planning, public finance, land development practice, historic preservation, infrastructure assessment, development impact analysis, the costs of sprawl, transportation information systems, environmental impacts, and community economic development. As a full-time academic research institution, CUPR has developed a wide array of fiscal, environmental, transportation, and quality of life impact models that have been used in major public policy evaluations throughout the United States.

As part of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, the Center for Vector Biology has been established to provide research and information for the citizens of New Jersey about insects and the diseases they transmit. The center interprets and disseminates data collected by county agencies for surveillance of mosquito vectors and their infection rates for Eastern Equine and West Nile viruses. Population trends for state mosquitoes are reported on a weekly basis.

The Laboratory of Vision Research (LVR) is part of the Center for Cognitive Science within the School of Arts and Sciences, and is founded on three major objectives: to conduct advanced interdisciplinary research in vision by engaging undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers; to offer undergraduate and graduate courses in visual perception and related areas, and to serve as a consulting body to local and global institutions and a link to science journalists.

The Visualization Lab (Vizlab) conducts research in the areas of scientific visualization, information visualization, and computer graphics. To help analyze datasets extending to the order of thousands of petabytes, Vizlab is currently focusing on tools to sift and detect activities of interest in such huge datasets. Some of our latest projects include visualizing job database for career counseling, tracking and illustrative visualization of ocean eddies, web-based 3D data visualization, and automatically detecting activities of interest from scientific datasets.

The Waksman Institute of Microbiology is an interdisciplinary research institute devoted to excellence in research.Institute focuses on fundamental questions in microbial, animal, and plant research, it continues to engage in extensive technology transfer to push the frontiers of scientific discovery. Topics include morphogenesis, sustainable energy, cancer, fertility, congenital disabilities, neurologic disorders, nutrition and drug-resistance of infectious diseases.

The New Jersey Water Resources Research Institute (NJWRRI) is a federally-funded program of research, training, and information transfer concerning all aspects of fresh and estuarine water in the state. Its mission is to sponsor research on all aspects of water quality, water quantity, water use, and the management of water resources; train students at the undergraduate, graduate, and post graduate levels to become the next generation of water resources professionals for New Jersey, and facilitate the transfer of information from researchers to the public and to water resource managers.

WINLAB (Wireless Information Network Laboratory), an industry-university cooperative research center focused on wireless technology, was founded at Rutgers in 1989. Its research mission is to advance the development of wireless networking technology by combining the resources of government, industry and academia. The center's educational mission is to train the next generation of wireless technologists via graduate research programs that are especially relevant to industry.

The center aims to advance the contributions of women in the arts and humanities by facilitating research, hosting visiting scholars and artists, mounting exhibitions, and engaging in university-community partnerships with artists, performers, scholars and cultural-makers. The center is a consortium member of the Institute for Women’s Leadership.

The Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) was founded by feminist activist Charlotte Bunch as a project of Douglass College in 1989. CWGL is affiliated with the School of Arts and Sciences. It is also part of the Office of International Programs and a member of the Institute for Women's Leadership that connects sister institutes and centers that are committed to the progress of women at the university.

The World Languages Institute within the School of Arts and Sciences provides K-12 language teachers with a graduate-level core program in pedagogy reflecting the New Jersey Student Learning Standard for World Languages and the National Standards for Second Language Teaching.