November 21, 2016 | In the News
The new fellows will receive an official certificate and a gold and blue (representing science and engineering, respectively) rosette pin at the AAAS Fellows Forum on Feb. 18, 2017. The forum will be held during the 2017 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts....
November 17, 2016 | In the News
After last week’s presidential election, there has been much handwringing about how Democrats can communicate with the Rust Belt voters that turned on them. On the one hand, that is natural; the losses in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan were surprising and...
November 16, 2016 | In the News
“I don’t know that Red Bank Charter is doing anything particularly better than the district,” said Julia Sass Rubin, a professor at Rutgers University who has studied Red Bank schools and advocates for district schools. “The district is much more impoverished, but...
November 16, 2016 | In the News
Will Trump, the president, replace Trump, the campaigner? Two forces are in contention these days; both are compelling. President Obama and Hillary Clinton are right, classy even, to take the high ground and urge us to hold together in ways that unite our divided...
November 15, 2016 | In the News
The $116-million project is a public-private partnership financed in part by $33 million in tax credits from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, as well as tax breaks and bond financing from the City of Newark.The project also is supported by NJPAC as part...
November 14, 2016 | In the News
William Rodgers, an economist at Rutgers, remembers when Trump started his campaign; Rodgers said the movie “Network” came to mind. “I was waiting for him to say to people, ‘I want you to go to your windows,'” Rodgers said, “and...
November 14, 2016 | In the News
The new president-elect cannot simply rip up the regulation, which became effective in June and requires financial advisers to act in the best interests of their clients in retirement accounts. Trying to scrap it through the legislative process also can be a heavy...
November 13, 2016 | In the News
The city already leads the nation’s biggest cities in bike lanes per square mile, according to data compiled by one national bike advocacy group. And Minneapolis is adding an ever-increasing number of bike lanes to its streets, with a goal of 30 miles of protected...
November 10, 2016 | In the News
Stuart Shapiro, a regulation law expert at Rutgers University, described the regulatory process constraints that any new president faces in an article for The Hill published last December. A new administration can avoid implementing any relatively new regulations....
November 10, 2016 | In the News
As talk now turns to the transition of power, there’s a new focus on President-elect Donald J. Trump’s economic policy proposals. Those measures, as they take shape, would cause ripples throughout New Jersey. “Business hates uncertainty,” said...
November 10, 2016 | In the News
The election was surprising, said Joseph Epstein, an Edward J. Bloustein School of Public Health senior. “Hearing the numbers be way off from projections for both of them showed me that nobody knew what was flying with this election,” he said. But the results did not...
November 10, 2016 | In the News
Stuart Shapiro, a regulation law expert at Rutgers University, described the regulatory process constraints that any new president faces in an article for The Hill published back in December. A new administration can avoid implementing any relatively new regulations....
November 9, 2016 | In the News
Thalya Reyes is an Edward J. Bloustein School of Public Policy master’s candidate for public policy and city and regional planning. Her column, “Concrete Jungle Gym,” runs on alternate Wednesdays. The 1896 Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson...
November 8, 2016 | Career, News
In October Bloustein School faculty, alumni and students attended a PoP Topics panel discussion on dynamic redevelopment in Newark, NJ, held at the Rutgers Business School. Led by Professor David Listokin, the panel members each discussed their particular role in the...
November 8, 2016 | In the News
In the eyes of McCook’s and Red Willow County’s tourism director, a contention by Eastern professors that the Golden Plains should be abandoned to the buffalo and deer and antelope keeps providing the impetus to prove the learned Poppers wrong. “The...
