The John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development’s new national survey of recent high school graduates from 2006 to 2011 finds: - Only 27% have full-time jobs; - Nearly one in three are unemployed and another 15% are employed part time but looking for...
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Cycle For One Hour and You’ll Live an Hour Longer — “City Cycling” Talk with John Pucher
Professor John Pucher will be authoring a bi-weekly chat for the European Cyclists’ Foundation for his upcoming book, City Cycling, which will be released by MIT Press in September 2012. You can pre-order a copy of the bookfor $18. Look for his next two chats on Women...
Fourth Annual Sustainable Raritan River Conference, June 14
There is still time to register for the fourth annual Sustainable Raritan River Conference, The Raritan River Region: Flooding, Regeneration and the Next Generation, to be held on Thursday, June 14, 2012. It will be held at Duke Farms, 80 U.S. Highway 206 in...
Rutgers professor featured in documentary
In 1987, Bloustein professor Frank Popper and his wife, Deborah, currently a professor at the College of Staten Island, proposed the return of much of the drier portion of the Great Plains to native prairie and reintroduce the American bison, or buffalo, that once...
New Jersey Ambassadors in Motion debut at opening of the Route 52 Causeway Bridge in Ocean City
Route 52 Causeway Bridge Opening The New Jersey Department of Transportation, Somers Point, Ocean City and other officials formally opened the new $400 million Route 52 Causeway Bridge connecting Somers Point and Ocean on Thursday, May 24, 2012. The grand opening...
“City Cycling” by John Pucher and Ralph Buehler, available for preorder
A new book edited by the Bloustein School’s John Pucherand Virginia Tech’s Ralph Buehler, City Cycling, is available for pre-order through publisher MIT Press, Amazon, andMIT Press Direct. The book is scheduled to be released in October 2012 as part of the MIT Press...
PSEG Foundation awards seed money for New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance
The PSEG Foundation has awarded seed funds to help establish the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance, a statewide network of policymakers, practitioners, and stakeholders working together to move New Jersey forward in strategic planning and implementation to...
Shaw honored for environmental leadership
Congratulations to Bloustein research associate Judy Shaw, who was recently honored by El Paso Corporation for her environmental leadership in the removal of the Calco Dam (read more about it here) and for her work helping to restore the Raritan River. Judy is the...
Congratulations graduates!
The Bloustein School graduated: 92 M.C.R.P. 7 M.C.R.S. 14 M.P.P. 7 M.P.A.P. 10 Ph.D. 34 B.A. in Planning and Public Policy 218 B.S. in Public Health this weekend! Both the graduate AND undergraduate classes were the School’s largest ever. We wish all of our graduates...
New Heldrich Center survey of college grads
A new Heldrich Center survey of college graduates from 2006 to 2011 finds: Recent college graduates are struggling to find full-time jobs. In fact, just over half of recent college graduates are working full time. More than half of the nation’s recent college...