RESEARCH & INNOVATION
Research Centers & Initiatives
Mason Gross faculty collaborate with local communities and with researchers across the university and around the world to advance research that serves the public good.
Arts In Health Research Lab
The Arts in Health Research Lab is a collaboration between Mason Gross School of the Arts, the Rutgers School of Public Health, and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. The Arts in Health Research Lab harnesses the transformative power of creativity to improve health outcomes through three foundational pillars: research, education, and community engagement. These three pillars shape the Lab’s interdisciplinary approach to advancing health through the arts.
Read our media release on the lab’s launch.
Documentary Film Lab
The Documentary Film Lab collaborates with researchers across the university and around the world, engaging students in creating documentaries about pressing issues in the sciences, in the history of our local community, and other topics of widespread importance and concern.
Environmental Arts
Faculty and students at Mason Gross School of the Arts are engaged in work at the leading edge of the field of Environmental Arts. Our efforts in this area are now coalescing into major initiatives—many of them in collaboration with our colleagues at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences—in the areas of artistic research, curriculum, and public programming.
Integrated Dance Collaboratory
The Integrated Dance Collaboratory is a hub of interdisciplinary research exploring dance’s unique rehabilitative potential for individuals with a wide range of physical and mental health conditions such as autism, traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, stroke, chronic pain and fibromyalgia, mental illness, and cognitive decline.
Rutgers Print Collaborative
The research-driven Rutgers Print Collaborative cultivates an experiential learning environment for publication, education, and the advancement of prints/multiples. The studio provides guest artists the environment and resources to research topics based on current social issues in the art world—and world at large—through the catalyst of student interaction and experimentation.