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The Center for Nutrition, Microbiome, and Health at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences brings together a diverse range of experts at Rutgers and beyond to facilitate collaborations. The center aims to aggregate multidisciplinary efforts in basic science and clinical research to understand how nutrition and microbiome work together to impact human health and diseases, and importantly to translate the findings into applications in both the clinical setting and everyday life.

The Rutgers University Center of Ocean Observing Leadership integrates across interdisciplinary scientific research, education and outreach, and the application of an operational ocean observing system. Faculty and students comprising the scientific teams participate in collaborative research programs in which academic, industry, and government partnerships are forged between physicists and biologists, between scientists and engineers, and between observationalists and modelers. The education group is the focal point for outreach activities to the K-12 community and to non-science majors within Rutgers. The Operations Center maintains a sustained coastal ocean observatory that provides real-time ocean data to the research and education groups and also serves as the training ground for Operational Oceanography students.

The Center for Psychological Services (CPS) is a state-of-the-art outpatient training center and a community-based center within the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP) providing confidential mental health services for a wide range of populations, disorders, and difficulties. CPS is comprised of a main clinic offering assessments and psychotherapeutic services, as well as an array of specialty clinics. The center serves children, adolescents, and adults from Rutgers University and the surrounding communities.

The Center for Quantitative Biology at the School of Arts and Sciences enables scientific exchanges and collaborations between faculty residing in different academic departments who are interested in quantitative modeling of biological phenomena. Research interests of the center's faculty members comprise both experimental and theoretical approaches and range from evolutionary dynamics, stochastic processes in biology, and single-molecule biophysics to modeling onset and progression of cancer.

Rutgers Business School is committed to developing women leaders for tomorrow’s evolving workforce through innovation, education, and community-building opportunities. The Center for Women in Business was created to support and fulfill this vision. The goal of the center is to create a thought leadership loop between students, alumnae, corporations, and faculty so that all groups benefit from the programs developed by the center to advance women in business. Our mission is to develop women business leaders by removing barriers and empowering them with the confidence and expertise necessary to enter and succeed in a continuously evolving workforce.

The Center for Women and Work (CWW) at the School of Management and Labor Relations is a leader in research, education, and programs that promote economic and social equity for women workers, their families, and their communities. CWW addresses women's advancement in the workplace, conducts cutting-edge research on successful public and workplace policies, provides technical assistance and programs to educators, industry, and governments, and engages issues that directly affect the living standards of New Jersey's and the nation's working families.

The Center for Youth Social Emotional Wellness is a cross-disciplinary center and a community-based center within the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP) that works in partnership with the Brandt Center with the goal of bringing together researchers, community and business leaders, and mental health providers from psychology, social work, education, psychiatry and other disciplines to develop holistic and comprehensive strategies to address the significant mental health inequities among young people that exist in New Jersey and nationally.

The mission of the Ceramic, Composite, Optical Materials Center (CCOMC) at the School of Engineering is to develop new, interdisciplinary technologies to increase the level of ceramic and particulate science, technology, and engineering and to transfer these technologies to its industrial members to foster the development of competitive, reproducible ceramic and composite materials, for advanced, high-performance systems.

The Child Health Institute of New Jersey is a comprehensive biomedical research center dedicated to improving child health through the study of mechanisms underlying children's diseases. The institute's research is integrated with the clinical approaches of pediatric physicians to understand the causes and improve the therapy and prevention of childhood illness. The institute is part of the children's academic health campus that includes Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Clinical Research Center, The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, and PSE&G Children's Specialized Hospital. 

The Clifford E. and Melda C. Snyder Research and Extension Farm is the center for sustainable agriculture. As part of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station within the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Snyder Farm initiates and disseminates research applicable to the production of a variety of food and fiber products including grain crops, tree and small fruits, turfgrass, and ornamentals. The farm's 390 acres provide a valuable capacity for research of soil and climate conditions and crops of northern New Jersey.