Research at Rutgers–New Brunswick
The Vice Provost for Research serves as a strategic partner in New Brunswick fostering collaborations, advocating for resources, and developing communication to promote a culture of faculty and student innovative and inclusive research. The Office of the Vice Provost for Research provides advice and planning for university-wide research initiatives and priorities including its centers and institutes, supporting Rutgers–New Brunswick, its cross-campus and chancellor-led units’ research infrastructure development.
Our Goals
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Support and increase impacts of innovative inclusive research fostering interdisciplinary and cross campus collaboration
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Increase diversity in research faculty and build capacity for publicly engaged research
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Center research opportunities for students at all levels of training from undergrad to postdoctoral
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Promote equitable infrastructure and core facilities development
Research Resources
Ready to innovate? Get started with on a new research project, identify institutional collaborators, and find funding through Rutgers’ Office for Research.
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Aresty Research Center
Aresty aims to create opportunities for Rutgers undergraduate students to participate in research. Rutgers professors can get involved in the center by advertising research opportunities, recruiting undergraduate researchers, and mentoring students towards professional engagement with research.
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RISE at Rutgers
RISE (Research Intensive Summer Experience) at Rutgers is a nationally-acclaimed summer research program for outstanding undergraduates from diverse backgrounds. Scholars participate in cutting-edge research in the biological, physical, and social/ behavioral sciences, math, engineering, and exciting interdisciplinary areas under the guidance of carefully matched faculty mentors.
Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program
The McNair Scholars Program is a federally-funded initiative established in memory of physicist and Challenger Astronaut Ronald E. McNair, created to help prepare undergraduates for their doctoral studies by providing necessary research and scholarly activities.
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Centers & Institutes
Rutgers–New Brunswick’s centers and institutes serve as fertile ground for pioneering interdisciplinary ideas, bringing together faculty from across the university to address today’s important challenges while adding to the sum of collective knowledge.
Vice Provost for Research Denise Hien serves as a strategic partner fostering collaborations, advocating for resources, and developing communication to promote a culture of faculty and student research. She provides advice and planning for university comprehensive capital renovation projects to improve scientific and other research facilities.
Valerie Tutwiler, PhD
Valerie Tutwiler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers, where her lab studies the structure and mechanics of blood clots. She received her PhD from Drexel University in Biomedical Engineering and conducted her postdoctoral work in Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Pennsylvania where she was a NIH NHLBI K99/R00 Postdoctoral Fellow. Valerie is passionate about increased research and professional development opportunities at a university level.
Alisa has over 15 years of higher education experience, and five years’ experience in New Jersey public school education, both as a high school business education teacher and as a part-time adult education computer skills teacher. Alisa has worked in many facets of higher education, from student service to her most recent position as office manager of Kean University’s University Senate for six years. Alisa received a Master of Science in Higher Education Administration from Southern New Hampshire University.
Jenny Perez is an Executive Assistant for the Office of the Chancellor-Provost.