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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 COOL Operations Center maintains the world’s most advanced coastal ocean observatory. State-of-the-art sampling capabilities are continuously upgraded as new technologies developed and demonstrated by the research group are immediately transitioned into the operational setting of the Center. Cost-effective sustained spatial sampling of the coastal ocean is accomplished with a variety of new platforms and sensors that include: (1) the local acquisition of satellite imagery from the international constellation of thermal infrared and ocean color sensors, (2) a triple-nested multi-static HF radar network for surface current mapping and waves, and (3) a fleet of long-duration autonomous underwater gliders equipped with physical and optical sensors,  Raw datasets are shared with a variety of super-users throughout the U.S. for real-time backups, data archiving, and advanced product generation. Operational data products are produced in real time and displayed on the World Wide Web for use by scientists, educators, decision-makers and the general public.

The Rutgers CyroEM & Nanoimaging Facility (RCNF) preserves biological specimens in their native state by vitrification; images them at the nanoscale through cryo-transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM), cryo-scanning electron microscopy (cryo-SEM), or cryo-focused ion beam microscopy (FIB/SEM); and reconstructs three-dimensional information through computational analysis of these nanoscale images through techniques like single-particle analysis (SPA) and cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET).

RUBIC was built with a $1.82 million grant from the National Science Foundation in 2010 and is affiliated with the Psychology Department and the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience. This first grant allowed RUBIC to purchase a Siemens Trio. A second grant for $1.48 million from the National Science Foundation in 2019 allowed RUBIC to buy a Siemens Prisma. 

RUBIC enables researchers from the Rutgers campuses as well as those from nearby institutions (e.g., Kessler Foundation, UMDNJ, etc.) to develop new research strategies and increase understanding of brain processes underlying typical functioning (e.g. human development, learning and memory, perceptual dynamics, neuroeconomics, computational neuroimaging) as well as atypical functioning such as that associated with developmental problems, mental illness, and addiction. Research at RUBIC is supported at present by various agencies and foundations including NSF, NIH, NIDA, NEI, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation.

RUMIC offers non-invasive approaches to observe disease states, disease progression and therapeutic responses in living systems and ex vivo organs. The approaches used allow researchers the ability to generate multiple, spatially-resolved anatomical, functional, and molecular-level readouts from a single study. 

The School of Engineering (SoE) Nanofabrication Core Facility offers measurement instrumentation, wet processes and majority of process tools for a range of research activities. The core objectives of the Facility include supporting research activities of Rutgers School of Engineering, educating students and postdocs with skills and capabilities that can be readily applied in high-tech semiconductor industries and research institutes, promoting research collaborations between research centers and industrial organizations, bringing in Research Incomes through Grants, User Access Fee and Trainings and leading the applications of federal and state-funded competitive fundings.

A Core Facility has been established in Foran Hall on the George H. Cook Campus that will enable students and faculty and outside users to have access to instrumentation whose purchase and maintenance costs would be cost prohibitive for any one investigator. The instrumentation offered at the Core Facility is grouped according to applications and include Bio-imaging, Bio-sensing, Flow cytometry, Real-time PCR, and High throughput screening.

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Rutgers Health: University Behavioral Health Care is dedicated to a mission of excellence that includes the delivery of evidence based and compassionate behavioral health and addiction services to individuals and families across New Jersey, advancing the science through programmatic research and educating the next generation of health care professionals.

The Waksman Institute Shared Imaging Facility provides training and consultation for the independent use of four advanced fluorescence microscopes. The Facility microscopes include the Leica TCS SP8 confocal, Leica TCS Stellaris8 confocal, Andor Dragonfly spinning disk confocal, Zeiss Elyra7 SIM super resolution, and two computer workstations.