What quality of life improvements do you think New Jersey needs the most? Over the next 10 weeks, a partnership between Together North Jersey, the Star-Ledger and NJ.com seeks to gather input from the community about their priorities and what NJ needs most. Read the...
Calls for establishment of statewide working group to address those most at risk A mix of policymakers, public and private sector practitioners, academics, nongovernmental organizations and business leaders has issued recommendations to help New Jersey better prepare...
The Sustainable Raritan River Initiative (SRRI) at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University recently announced the recipients of the annual Sustainable Raritan River Collaborative outstanding achievement awards at the 6th Annual...
The Bloustein School is pleased to announce the establishment of the Dawne D. and Lawrence B. Burrows Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Planning and Public Policy. Lawrence B. and Dawne D. Burrows are longstanding supporters of the Bloustein School who have taken the...
Bloustein School alumni, current students, and faculty and staff are cordially invited to attend the inaugural event of the Bloustein School Alumni Association Philadelphia Regional Alumni Group, which will include light refreshments, a planning talk, and and a...
The Bloustein School’s Rutgers Center for Green Building, which promotes green building through research, advocacy and education, conducts applied research utilizing planned and existing green building projects, works with industry and government to promote these...
Dr. Carl Van Horn, the founding director of the John H. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development and a visiting Non-Resident Scholar with the Federal Reserve Bank for the 2013-14 academic year, was recently promoted to the position of Distinguished Professor at the...
The U.S. Department of Transportation Technology Partnership Programs, Universities and Grants Programs has announced that Jonathan deVries (MCRP ’15) has been selected to receive a 2014 Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship in the amount of $5,000. The Dwight...
Registration is now open for the sixth annual Sustainable Raritan River Conference, “Valuing Natural Capital and Ecosystems Servcies.” It will be held on Friday, June 13 at the Cook Campus Center on the Rutgers University’s New Brunswick Campus, from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. ...
Bloustein professor Michael R. Greenberg, author of The Environmental Impact Statement After Two Generations: Managing Environmental Power, was interviewed by Scientific American recently about the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which forces agencies to...
While a difficult winter has depressed job growth early in 2014, New Jersey actually has experienced slight improvement over a comparable period last year, according to Nancy Mantell, director of the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service (R/ECON). But Mantell predicts the...
As part of Rutgers University’s 248th anniversary commencement ceremonies, the Bloustein School will be holding the 11th Convocation celebration of the graduate program on Saturday, May 17 at 3 p.m. at the Nicholas Music Center, Douglass Campus, New Brunswick, NJ....
On Friday, May 9, the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service (R/ECON)semiannual subscriber forecast and conference will examine the pace of New Jersey’s economic recovery and provide insight into aspects of the real estate market that are helping establish momentum for the...
Sara Meyers (MPP 2009) has been named as a finalist for the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals in the Call to Service category. The Call to Service Medal recognizes a federal employee whose professional achievements reflect the important contributions that a...
Each fall, Bloustein School professor Frank Popper leads a senior seminar class for planning and public policy (PPP) majors at the Bloustein School. “The main goal of the course,” said Dr. Popper “Is for a student to engage his or her imagination to produce original...
The Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) held its spring conference earlier this month. The spring conference is typically devoted to the administration of public policy (and public administration) programs. Bloustein School MPP student,...
NJTIP @ Rutgers is offering a FREE opportunity for one-on-one personalized travel training for persons with brain injury living in central NJ who want to access job destinations (paid or volunteer). We are actively recruiting participants now, so if interested contact...
Jocelyn Elise Crowley, Ph.D. is a senior faculty fellow at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development with research interests in family policy and social policy in the United States. Dr. Crowley has been a professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of...
New Jersey residents who were surveyed four months after Hurricane Sandy battered the East Coast of the United States in October 2012 expressed strong support for government policies to reduce the likelihood of severe damage from future hurricanes, according to a...
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s Office of Science recently announced that professor Clinton J. Andrews was reappointed to a three-year term to the NJDEP’s Science Advisory Board, and professor Michael R. Greenberg was reappointed to the Public...
