The Office of Research and Innovation (ORI) fosters a collaborative culture of ideation, inquiry, and knowledge creation at Rutgers–Brunswick. ORI is housed within the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, allowing advanced research and innovation projects to align directly with the academic mission of the university. We support the activities that engage the collective knowledge, skills, and creativity of all of the schools at Rutgers–New Brunswick to advance understanding and benefit humanity, society, and the world.
What's New
This video of the “coral hospital model” is an animated description of new research stemming from the ORI-funded Coral Omics Project (team lead: D. Bhattacharya, SEBS).
Research at a Glance
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$750.8 million in annual research and development expenditures
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Home to more than 175 research centers
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20+ members in the National Academy of Sciences
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A top 25 public university in the nation
Major Goals
Ensuring robust research funding and research infrastructure
Rutgers' cell and DNA repository is the largest university-based biorepository in the world. RUCDR Infinite Biologics is a key global center for the study of genetics and mental health, drug abuse, alcoholism, diabetes, and digestive and kidney diseases.
Aligning Rutgers' ideators with emerging research opportunities
Rutgers researchers identified a small set of simple protein building blocks that likely existed at the earliest stages of life's history. The findings could lead to applications of these stackable, organic building blocks for biomedical engineering and therapeutic proteins.
Encouraging new research partnerships across disciplines
Rutgers and the University of Pennsylvania have teamed up to find new ways to address the digital divide in New Jersey and Philadelphia. The Center for the Study of Digital Inequality and Social Change builds on Rutgers professor Todd Wolfson's previous efforts to close the digital divide.
Advancing distinction in the humanities and arts
Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History, wins the 2018 Frederick Douglass Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University for her most recent book, Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (Atria/37Ink, 2017), which was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Non-Fiction.
Overseeing key interdisciplinary research centers and institutes
Overseen jointly with the Chancellor of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, the Brain Health Institute focuses on basic, translational, and clinical research into the biological bases of human brain function and dysfunction.
Championing a culture of excellence in research across all fields
Researchers Vikas Nanda and Paul Falkowski used computer modeling to reverse engineer a simple protein that may have helped start life on earth.
Promoting the innovative solutions developed at Rutgers that move the world forward
The Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation is a national leader in transportation safety and innovation. CAIT is engineering and designing pavements that add years of service life to our roadways and make them better in every way.