July 28, 2021 | News
Bloustein School Ph.D. candidate Ellen Oettinger White is the recipient of the WTS Greater New York Helene M. Overly/Leonard Braun Graduate Scholarship. Established in 1981 by WTS International to encourage women to pursue career paths in transportation, the...
July 27, 2021 | In the News
Last week, search crews reached the bottom of the rubble at the Champlain Towers condo building site in Surfside, Florida, where at least 98 people perished due to a deadly collapse in June. The exact cause is still unclear, but lack of...
July 22, 2021 | EJB Talks
On this episode of EJBTalks, Stuart Shapiro welcomes Vince Joseph, Professor of Practice in the Bloustein School’s Master of Health Administration program and former Executive Vice President at Robert Wood Johnson hospital. Stuart and Vince discuss the...
July 22, 2021 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
In the spring of 2020, a multidisciplinary collaboration of Rutgers University faculty and doctoral students came together to examine the impact of COVID-19 on marginalized communities in New Jersey. The project, “Putting Stories to Work: Confronting the Pandemic...
July 15, 2021 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Bloustein School Ph.D. candidate Lauren Nolan, AICP, has been selected for the PreDoctoral Leadership Academy (PLDA), offered by the Rutgers Center for Organizational Leadership with support from the School of Graduate Studies, School of Arts and Sciences-NB, and the...
July 13, 2021 | In the News
“When there’s a quick ramping up of the (economy), there’s a quick demand for workers and that means the people who pay more are going to get those workers … just as when there’s a labor surplus they’re able to pay less and still get a competent workforce,’’...
July 12, 2021 | EJB Talks
Professor David Listokin, a distinguished professor in our internationally-ranked urban planning program, joins Stuart Shapiro in today’s episode of EJB Talks. In a wide-ranging discussion, they cover the nationwide span of David’s work. They discuss...
July 12, 2021 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
In “zipcodeR: Advancing the analysis of spatial data at the ZIP code level in R,” (Software Impacts) Gavin Rozzi, Research Computing Specialist with the Rutgers Urban & Civic Informatics Lab at the Bloustein School, looks at the development of the zipcodeR R...
July 8, 2021 | In the News
Diversity in swimming has always been an issue. In the United States, the overwhelming majority of swimmers are white. According to a 2019 Swimming Membership Demographics report, only 0.8% of their 327,337 swimmers were Black men, and 0.6% Black women. Although...
July 8, 2021 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Prabhas V. Moghe, Ph.D., Rutgers Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs recently announced the awardees for the 78th cohort of the Rutgers University Research Council Program. Established in 1943, the Research Council provides internal seed...
July 7, 2021 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Bloustein School Ph.D. candidate Stephanie Holcomb is one of 25 scholars chosen to receive a social science research grant from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy for the 2020 award year. The Foundation received 678 applications from around the world,...
July 6, 2021 | In the News
For four decades, the Champlain Tower South condominium sat about 100 yards from the sea, much of that distance covered by sand. During that time, the tide ebbed and flowed toward the building nearly 60,000 times. A full moon rose in the sky 500 times. The condo...
July 1, 2021 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
When lockdowns began in the spring of 2020 few people regarded the ability to comply with them as a sign of privilege. However, that’s what researchers Xiao Huang (Dept. of Geoscience, University of Arkansas), Junyu Lu (School of Community Resources and Development,...
June 29, 2021 | In the News
The ransomware attack on St. Joseph’s/Candler that was first detected on June 17 is part of a growing trend of such attacks across industries and government, but especially on healthcare providers. “The truth is that there are a lot of advancements...
June 29, 2021 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Ever wonder what the life of a model is like? Glamorous? Exciting? How about vulnerable? Models are independent contractors. As such, they do not receive health insurance, vacation pay, workers’ compensation, and many other benefits that...
June 28, 2021 | In the News
Charles T. Brown, Senior Researcher and Adjunct Professor with the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC) and President and CEO of Equitable Cities, assesses the rise in traffic fatalities in an MSNBC interview. A 2021 report from Smart Growth America showed...
June 28, 2021 | In the News
Former Rutgers Law School Dean and Public Advocate Ron Chen and former NJ Attorney General and current Director of Rutgers’ Eagleton Institute of Politics John Farmer cite Bloustein School professor Julia Rubin’s research on the county line in an editorial...
June 28, 2021 | News
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has announced the appointment of William M. Rodgers III, Ph.D. as Vice President, effective July 12, 2021. He will also serve as the Director of the bank’s Institute for Economic Equity. “My personal mission...
June 24, 2021 | EJB Talks
Stuart Shapiro welcomes Professor Jocelyn Crowley to EJB Talks this week. Dr. Crowley is an expert on policy issues related to gender, including child support, gray divorce, and father’s rights. They open their discussion with how the Me-Too movement, which...
June 24, 2021 | In the News
A new study released Tuesday by the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) highlights the disparities. It analyzed data from 2015 to 2019 and found that in different types of traffic crashes, Black people were killed at higher rates than White people. Black...
