A Small Sampling of Our Distinctive Research

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  Collaborative Spinal Cord Research
  It’s where global research collaboration on spinal cord injuries was pioneered. The W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience is led by Wise Young, a world leader in neuroscience and the researcher behind the China SCINet spinal cord treatment clinical trials featured in Nature.
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  The Vanguard of Women's Studies
  Home to the top-ranked women’s and gender history program in the nation, Rutgers–New Brunswick is where the papers of suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are archived and studied. Photograph by J.H. Kent. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-USZ61-791
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  Mathematical Insights
  The internationally acclaimed Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) is one of the original National Science Foundation Science and Technology Centers. DIMACS’s work leads to advances in genetics, evolutionary biology, epidemiology, and homeland security.
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  Turfgrass Development
  Much of America’s commercially available grass seed originates in turfgrass research at Rutgers–New Brunswick. Grasses developed at the Center for Turfgrass Science are on the White House lawn, New York’s Central Park, and at golf courses, athletic fields, parks, and elsewhere (including, more likely than not, your own lawn).
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  Measuring the Ocean
  When the federal government sought coordinated access to real-time data on the Gulf oil spill, the Rutgers Coastal and Ocean Observation Laboratory got the call. Its data center and undersea gliders are the state-of-the-art in robotic ocean exploration. In 2009 the lab’s Scarlet Knight glider completed the world's first trans-Atlantic crossing.
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  The World's DNA Library
  The Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository is the largest university-based repository of its kind in the world. It it a key national center for the study of genetics and mental health, drug abuse, alcoholism, diabetes, and digestive and kidney diseases.
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  Guardian of the Roads
  The Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation is a national leader in transportation safety and innovation. A $17.9 million U.S. Commerce Department grant will lead to technologies for early detection of flaws in bridge decks—the surfaces on which vehicles travel—saving money and keeping travelers safer.