EJB Talks
Join our faculty and staff experts, as well as some of our alumni and students, as we talk about topics within the disciplines of public policy, urban planning, public health, health administration, and informatics.
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A Place for Ethics
An in-depth discussion about ethics and its application in informing planning, policy and public health, and how law can be impoverished without ethics.
Rural planner: Frank Popper and the Buffalo Commons
Discussing the Buffalo Commons, its history, its significance, and the current economic and environmental signs that confirm the idea that the depopulated center of the country should capitalize on its heritage as the home of the buffalo.
Bloustein Alumni Spotlight: 9-11 and the World Trade Center Redevelopment
Jim Bach reflects on the profession of planning and how being trained as an integrator, along with understanding the connections between scope, schedule, and budget, allowed him to successfully work with the Port Authority and the multitudes of emotionally invested stakeholders involved in the WTC project.
Improving the public good: Health administration at the Bloustein School
The Bloustein School’s rapidly growing MHA program is preparing future health administrators to improve community access to health care.
From the Garden State to Route 66
Stuart Shapiro and David Listokin discuss the significance and impact of current reverse migration trends as well as the economic impacts of historic preservation activities on Route 66.
We haven’t come a long way, baby: Sexual harassment in the workplace
There is a misconception that the pandemic lessened exposure to sexual harassment in remote work situations and in the service sector. Are there policy considerations that can bring more protections to vulnerable individuals?
A Tale of Two Alums: NJCC Assisting Small Businesses in the Time of COVID
This week Stuart Sharpiro talks to amazing Bloustein alums from New Jersey Community Capital, who discuss how the organization pivoted work during the pandemic to assist NJ’s small businesses and how the Garden State Relief Fund has been helping with the recovery.
NJDOL Commissioner speaks on policy, politics, and positive change post-pandemic
Career paths, New Jersey Department of Labor’s pandemic response, and how the crisis has the potential to make a positive change, increasing faith in a more competent government
The Trump aftermath and the “not normal” future of the GOP
A political check-in to talk about the current state of the Republican party and what the power struggle in the GOP means for the country.
Diversity, equity and inclusion in the academy and in the country
Higher education, like all society, is at a crossroads with the issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion but is philosophically is ahead of its time.
News
New VTC Report: Improving Virtual Public Involvement in Transportation Agencies
NCHRP Research Report 1178: Improving Virtual Public Involvement in Transportation Agencies Read Report Summary Virtual public involvement (VPI), defined by the Federal Highway Administration as “the use of digital technology to engage individuals or to visualize...
Engaged citizens built America. Today, civics education is coming back.
America was founded 250 years ago on the notion that the government derives its power from the people it governs. In a world dominated by monarchies, this notion was radical, and the Founding Fathers knew their experiment in people power would work only if those...
Samuel Co-Authors Editorial on the Evolution of Artificial Intelligence
From NLP to LLMs to agentic AI: The evolution of artificial intelligence Introduction Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has permeated global enterprises and societies with a velocity that is without precedent in the history of technology. Yet we must remind...
The Wrap: Electricity Rates, Hotel Controversies, Home Rule
The supply cost of electricity in your monthly bill from Atlantic City Electric beginning June 1 should show a decrease. It will not be a large decrease, but it is certainly a welcome occurrence after two years that sent monthly electricity costs for the residential...
Payne Serves as Guest Editor for Special Edition of Cartographic Perspectives Journal
A Letter from the Guest Editors "Counter-GIS" as Collaborative Practice: Grounded Experiments in Digital Mapping Download the Full Issue Over the past several decades, digital maps have increasingly become a part of the lives of non-specialists, be it through...