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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.

As a consortium of nine units dedicated to education, research, and public service, the Institute for Women's Leadership examines women and gender, advocates on behalf of diversity and gender equity, and advances women's leadership in all arenas of public life. The institute brings together the expertise of its member units to examine and promote women’s leadership in education, research, the arts, sciences, politics and government, human rights, the workplace, and the world.

The Interfacial Molecular Science Laboratory at the School of Engineering conducts research in molecular dynamics simulations, glass surfaces, nanoconfined materials, and water/glass interactions.

The Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve is one of the 29 national estuarine research reserves created to promote the responsible use and management of the nation's estuaries through a program combining scientific research, education, and stewardship. The Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve encompasses approximately 116,000 acres in southeastern New Jersey, including a great variety of terrestrial, wetland and aquatic habitats within the Mullica River-Great Bay ecosystem.

The W. M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience is dedicated to multidisciplinary collaborative research and to accelerating the translation of scientific discoveries into effective human therapies. As part of the School of Arts and Sciences, the focus of the center’s work is spinal cord injury with findings also applicable to persons with brain injuries, stroke, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS), transverse myelitis, and other problems of the central nervous system. The center operates on the belief that a cure is achievable and that collaboration is the means by which that goal will be reached.

The Margery Somers Foster Center is a unit of Rutgers University Libraries dedicated to developing cocurricular initiatives on visual technology and networked culture. The center's programs promote expressive communication through the use of multimedia, while challenging Rutgers students to engage critically with structures of inequality grounded in alternative accounts of race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, and nationality

The Math and Science Learning Center supports undergraduate STEM education through research-based educational support activities including course transformations and development of innovative courses. The center provides public outreach programs to K-12 students and teachers, promotes collaboration among outreach programs across the university, and fosters the development of programming which brings together the educational expertise and rich array of research initiatives of faculty and graduate students in the STEM disciplines.