October 7, 2020 | News
The New Jersey Department of Human Services has announced that the Department’s Division of Disability Services is launching a $1.4 million grant program to help communities across the state promote inclusive approaches to supporting the health and well-being of...
October 6, 2020 | EJB Talks
In March 2020 the spread of COVID-19 was rampant and New Jersey was at the epicenter of the outbreak. Hospitals and their administrators were faced with unthinkable challenges. In combatting these challenges, hospitals had to change their way of operating. For our...
October 2, 2020 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
A new paper by Bloustein School Assistant Professor Eric Seymour and colleagues K. Arthur Endsely (WA Franke College of Forestry and Conservation, The University of Montana, Missoula), and Rachel Franklin (School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle...
October 1, 2020 | News
On September 29, the Bloustein School’s Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University convened a full-day virtual symposium to share information and gather input from sector leaders regarding COVID-19 responses and thoughts on what to expect from...
September 29, 2020 | News
September 29, 2020 | EJB Talks
The effects of COVID-19 on the economy will be deep and long-lasting. One of the more important impacts may be on housing markets. In this episode of EJB Talks, Stuart Shapiro has a revealing conversation with Assistant Professor Eric Seymour about the rental housing...
September 28, 2020 | In the News
New Jersey just experienced its second-hottest summer on record, yet another sign of how climate change has intensified temperatures across the Garden State. But people in urban areas — which tend to lack greenery to break up the concrete landscapes — are more...
September 28, 2020 | News
Graduate urban planning student Ooha Uppalalapati (MCRP ’21) was one of nine selected as 2020-21 Morgan Stanley Community Development Graduate Fellows. Through the fellowship, students will share their expertise and provide much-needed support to a local...
September 28, 2020 | News
As part of Hunger Action Month, the Bloustein School’s Graduate Society of Healthcare Leaders put their efforts toward raising donations for Elijah’s Promise Community Kitchen. Graduate students gathered food supplies from the kitchen’s wishlist as well as...
September 28, 2020 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
In a special issue of the Journal of Urban Affairs (November 2019), Bloustein School Associate Professor Julia Sass Rubin, Ryan M. Good Ph.D ’16 (Eastern Mennonite University), and Michelle Fine (City University of New York) advocate for a broader research...
September 26, 2020 | Event Recap
9/25 The Future of Planning for Economic Democracy and Self-Determination: Towards a Post-COVID Just Recovery click to play Historic urban planning and policy decisions have led to higher impacts of COVID-19 in low-income communities — special attention should be paid...
September 24, 2020 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
In a recent article, “Not adding up: free ridership and spillover calculations in energy efficiency evaluations,” (Energy Efficiency, June 2020), Bloustein School Research Professor Frank Felder and colleagues Zachary Froio (Applied Energy, Red Bank, NJ) and Pranay...
September 22, 2020 | News
The Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, Rutgers University is assessing Somerset County’s current communication and outreach efforts regarding its services, programs, and amenities available for residents. To aid in this research, we created a 10-minute...
September 22, 2020 | EJB Talks
EJB Talks returns! In the first episode of our second season, Professor Stuart Shapiro talks with Associate Teaching Professor Patti O’Brien-Richardson about her research and advocacy on natural hair discrimination. She discusses the CROWN Act, a statute adopted...
September 21, 2020 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
In “Gender differences in marriage, romantic involvement, and desire for romantic involvement among older African Americans (PLOS ONE, May 2020),” Bloustein School Associate Professor Dawne M. Mouzon and colleagues look at the dearth of research on the correlates of...
September 21, 2020 | In the News
An op-ed from Linda Stamato and Sandy Jaffe explores the possibilities for policy development following the pandemic. They note that states should work together to embrace as many aspects of our regional existence as possible in order to aid, rather than inhibit, the...
September 17, 2020 | In the News
A new report finds it will take years for the New Jersey economy to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. But a complete job-loss rebound could take decades. According to Michael Lahr, a professor of planning and public policy and director of the Rutgers...
September 15, 2020 | In the News
Academic research has shown that perceptions of risk of COVID-19 varies with the level of support for President Trump. It doesn’t require much of a leap of imagination that perceptions of risk regarding other highly politicized issues such as crime and...
September 11, 2020 | Alumni Spotlight, COVID-19
What Nicolette says: I am a motivated, goal-oriented professional with first-hand clinical, operational, leadership, and marketing experience. I aim to bring a constant level of drive and passion to the team that others have called contagious. Over the last three...
September 11, 2020 | In the News
That’s what makes the data-driven approach to saving lives so problematic, says Charles T. Brown, a senior researcher and professor at the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers, who wrote the book’s foreward and served as Schmitt’s technical adviser. “What...
