October 14, 2025 | News, WorktrendsRU Podcast
Listen to the latest episode of the Heldrich Center’s Work Trends RU podcast, featuring James Moore, Ph.D., Principal at KPMG. Dr. Moore reflects on his career and discusses the need to modernize workforce and unemployment systems, discusses the critical role of...
October 12, 2025 | Graduate Public Informatics Student Spotlights
Neel Savalia Master of Public Informatics, Class of 2023 GIS Specialist, City of Richmond, VA For Neel Savalia, the Bloustein School stood out from the beginning because it offered a unique combination of disciplines. “Bloustein doesn’t treat urban planning, policy,...
October 9, 2025 | Event Recap, News
by Greg Bruno for Rutgers Today In co-hosting the final debate before Election Day, Rutgers scholars worked to elevate the public policy discourse. Before the gubernatorial candidates took the stage at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center on Oct. 8 for...
October 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
“Bria was already on the faculty when I arrived at Rutgers in 1974. She was a generous and welcoming presence from the start, a gift that was extremely valued by a young faculty member just out of graduate school. For the next forty or so years, Bria was unrelenting...
October 6, 2025 | News
The Bloustein School is saddened to announce the passing of Briavel Holcomb, 83, Professor Emeritus and former coordinator of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program, on September 27, 2025. Dr. Holcomb joined the Rutgers faculty in 1972 as a member of the graduate...
October 1, 2025 | EJB Talks, News
Careful Campaigns, Big Debates: Breaking Down NJ’s Governor’s Race with Eagleton’s Kristoffer Shields With just a month until New Jersey’s gubernatorial election, Dean Stuart Shapiro sits down with Kristoffer Shields, Director of Eagleton Institute’s...
September 29, 2025 | News
The New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC) / Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT) September 11th Memorial Program for Regional Transportation Planning selection committee has selected Abigail Alvarez, PPP ’25/MCRP ’26...
September 25, 2025 | News
For more information or media questions, please contact Patti Zielinski patti.zielinski@rutgers.edu Hosted by the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, the second of two public debates between the candidates in the 2025 New...
September 23, 2025 | EJB Talks, News
Social Determinants, Health Policy, and the Public Health Classroom: A Discussion with Katie Pincura Dean Stuart Shapiro and the EJB Talks podcast have returned for season 13 with associate teaching professor Katie Pincura. Katie’s path into public health began as a...
September 22, 2025 | News
The Graduate Fellows Program at the Eagleton Institute of Politics has been a cornerstone of the Institute’s commitment to advancing the understanding and practice of politics and public service since the Institute’s founding in 1956. Students selected for this...
September 18, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
In 2024, the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development launched a statewide survey of registered family child care (FCC) providers in New Jersey as part of the Rutgers Child Care Research Collaborative, an initiative focused on child care in the state. The survey...
September 15, 2025 | Informatics Event, Uncategorized
Rutgers Informatics Forum on Agentic Artificial Intelligence This webinar will host an eminent expert on agentic AI, and will also provide insights into the advanced data science, informatics and AI education, and preparation needed for informatics, DS and AI jobs and...
September 12, 2025 | News, WorktrendsRU Podcast
Join the Heldrich Center for a special “Back to School” episode of the Work Trends RU podcast series, featuring New Jersey Department of Education Commissioner Kevin Dehmer. Commissioner Dehmer discusses: The major challenges, innovations, and achievements...
September 11, 2025 | News
New Report: The Great Household Deficit: Rising Costs of Homeownership in New Jersey New Jersey homeowners are sinking in monthly bills. In a new brief from the Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality, and Metropolitian Equity (CLiME), Assistant Director of Housing Studies...
September 9, 2025 | News
ScarletWell has awarded the second round of Wellness Connection grant recipients. Grant awards range from $500–$1,000 to support student-led (Wellness Connection Grants) and faculty-staff directed (Wellness at Work Grants) wellness activities in Fall of 2025 and...
September 5, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
A new report for the New Jersey Statewide Data System, written by Ann Obadan, Ph.D., Research Project Manager at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, and Amarachi Chuka-Maduji, former Research Project Assistant at the Heldrich Center and currently at the...
September 2, 2025 | News
Rutgers University-New Brunswick’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy is pleased to announce the appointment of Laura R. Peck, Ph.D., as Associate Professor, effective September 1, 2025. Dr. Peck will also serve as a Principal Faculty...
September 1, 2025 | Bloustein Impact, News
The Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC) was seeking a way to highlight Alan Voorhees’ impact on national and global transportation planning issues. The Alan M. Voorhees Legacy Project provided the path forward. As Robert B. Noland, Ph.D., Distinguished...
September 1, 2025 | Bloustein Impact, News
Finding Trends and Modern Solutions to Break Barriers in Previously Siloed Research Areas Informatics applications have long been a part of the Bloustein School’s major areas of study—transportation, environmental management, urban design, mobility, social policy,...
September 1, 2025 | Bloustein Impact, News
Healthcare Business Becomes the Business of the Bloustein School While the Bloustein School’s founding is recorded as 1992, the development of the school’s undergraduate program can trace its formation to the 1960s with the Urban Studies and Community Development...
