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...
September 10, 2020 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
For more information or to set up an interview with Michael Lahr, please email lahr@rutgers.edu Following the 6-month economic lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, New Jersey is unlikely to experience a job resurgence anytime soon, according to...
September 9, 2020 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
In “Burnout, Depression, Career Satisfaction, and Work-Life Integration by Physician Race/Ethnicity,” JAMA Network Open (August 3, 2020), author Luis C. Garcia, MS concludes that physicians in minority racial/ethnic groups were less likely to report burnout...
September 3, 2020 | News
State freedom of information laws are vital mechanisms for providing public access to government records. These laws support civic engagement through the implementation of public policy transparency at the state level, not unlike their federal counterpart, the...
September 2, 2020 | In the News
An op-ed by William Rodgers discusses a Congressional proposal whereby the Federal Reserve would gain a new task: reducing racial inequality. Dr. Rodgers addresses how the proposal could tackle Black unemployment, provide Blacks with more opportunity for credit, and...
August 28, 2020 | COVID-19, Undergraduate Health Administration Student Spotlights
This past spring Sidrah worked with PWNHealth, a national clinician network that provides safe and easy access to diagnostic testing. PWN partnered with Verily Project Baseline, Quest Diagnostics, and other labs that are testing for COVID-19. What Sidrah says: As part...
August 28, 2020 | In the News
Physicians in underrepresented racial/ethnic groups exhibited lower rates of burnout vs. non-Hispanic white physicians, but more research is needed to confirm these findings, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open. In a related editorial, Joel C....
August 27, 2020 | News
The Bloustein School is pleased to welcome two new faculty members to the teaching ranks in the fall of 2020. Will Payne, Ph.D. joined the Bloustein School as an Assistant Professor. He received his PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley, where...
August 26, 2020 | In the News
The 300-mile New York to D.C. ride aims to highlight barriers people of color face in biking. washingtonpost.com “Our mobility has been arrested,” said Charles Brown, who is Black and is one of the nation’s top leaders in transportation equity and justice....
