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The Visualization Lab (Vizlab) conducts research in the areas of scientific visualization, information visualization, and computer graphics. To help analyze datasets extending to the order of thousands of petabytes, Vizlab is currently focusing on tools to sift and detect activities of interest in such huge datasets. Some of our latest projects include visualizing job database for career counseling, tracking and illustrative visualization of ocean eddies, web-based 3D data visualization, and automatically detecting activities of interest from scientific datasets.

The Waksman Institute of Microbiology is an interdisciplinary research institute devoted to excellence in research.Institute focuses on fundamental questions in microbial, animal, and plant research, it continues to engage in extensive technology transfer to push the frontiers of scientific discovery. Topics include morphogenesis, sustainable energy, cancer, fertility, congenital disabilities, neurologic disorders, nutrition and drug-resistance of infectious diseases.

The New Jersey Water Resources Research Institute (NJWRRI) is a federally-funded program of research, training, and information transfer concerning all aspects of fresh and estuarine water in the state. Its mission is to sponsor research on all aspects of water quality, water quantity, water use, and the management of water resources; train students at the undergraduate, graduate, and post graduate levels to become the next generation of water resources professionals for New Jersey, and facilitate the transfer of information from researchers to the public and to water resource managers.

WINLAB (Wireless Information Network Laboratory), an industry-university cooperative research center focused on wireless technology, was founded at Rutgers in 1989. Its research mission is to advance the development of wireless networking technology by combining the resources of government, industry and academia. The center's educational mission is to train the next generation of wireless technologists via graduate research programs that are especially relevant to industry.

The center aims to advance the contributions of women in the arts and humanities by facilitating research, hosting visiting scholars and artists, mounting exhibitions, and engaging in university-community partnerships with artists, performers, scholars and cultural-makers. The center is a consortium member of the Institute for Women’s Leadership.

The Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) was founded by feminist activist Charlotte Bunch as a project of Douglass College in 1989. CWGL is affiliated with the School of Arts and Sciences. It is also part of the Office of International Programs and a member of the Institute for Women's Leadership that connects sister institutes and centers that are committed to the progress of women at the university.

The World Languages Institute within the School of Arts and Sciences provides K-12 language teachers with a graduate-level core program in pedagogy reflecting the New Jersey Student Learning Standard for World Languages and the National Standards for Second Language Teaching.

The Lindley G. Cook 4-H Youth Center for Outdoor Education, operating since 1951, was named for a director of Extension who realized the vision of a 4-H camp in New Jersey. The camp is located within Stokes State Forest on 100 wooded acres in Sussex County. It includes accommodations for 215 people, recreation fields, and an 8-acre lake for fishing, swimming, and boating.

Founded in 1983 by Dr. David A. Feigley, the Youth Sports Research Council is a division of the Department of Kinesiology and Health at the School of Arts and Sciences. YSRC develops, synthesizes, and disseminates information about the influence of physical activity and organized sports on the healthy development of children and adolescents. Award-winning educational programs are designed for recreation directors, coaches, parents, and administrators of youth sports leagues.