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Sustainable Raritan River Mini-Conference, December 5. Register now!

November 18, 2013

The Bloustein School’s Sustainable Raritan River Initiative will host the Sustainable Raritan River Mini-Conference on Thursday, December 5 at Duke Farms. This free mini-conference will pick up where the June conference left off, highlighting current issues of concern...

Special speaker presentation on transportation disaster coordination in US and China, October 28

October 8, 2013

As part of the three-day Workshop on Transportation Disaster Coordination in the U.S. and China, Mr. Weng Lei, Deputy Director General for Safety & Supervision, Ministry of Transport, People’s Republic of China, will present an overview of several mega...

Symposium on “New Jersey Gold Coast”—19-mile Hudson Waterfront area—to be held October 25

October 4, 2013

The Bloustein Local Government Research Center, Rutgers University, in conjunction with the American Planning Association New Jersey Chapter, will host a half-day long symposium on Friday, October 25, “The New Jersey Gold Coast: How We Got Here and Where We are...

NTI’s Larrousse presents transit planning, financial, organizational sessions in Singapore

September 24, 2013

Paul Larrousse, director of the National Transit Institute, recently participated as one of the U.S. facilitators/trainers as part of the Singapore-United States Third Country Training Program Workshop on Sustainable Urban Transport Planning and Management. The...

NSF to present EJB’s Arctic Planning Studio Project, July 25

July 24, 2013

On Thursday, July 25, the National Science Foundation will host Sustainable Arctic Villages and Oil Development: Planning to Avoid the Natural Resources Curse, a presentation of the Bloustein School’s recent Arctic Planning Studio project, “Community Impact of Moving...

NJ League of Municipalities Educational Foundation to present forum on reinventing NJ’s suburban office market

June 26, 2013

New Jersey experienced one of the greatest suburban office building booms in history during the 1980s. Our globally recognized core economic specialization was automobile-dependent suburban office campuses, the nation’s cutting-edge growth model at the time. But,...

Rutgers Hosts Statewide Conference on Climate Change Preparedness in NJ

May 28, 2013

On May 22, a diverse group of public and private New Jersey leaders gathered at Rutgers University to engage in a dialogue about enhancing capacity in the Garden State to better plan for and adapt to a changing climate. Organized by the New Jersey Climate Adaptation...

Spring R/ECON forecast: New Jersey’s recovery still trails nation’s

April 19, 2013

While New Jersey is on pace to add 48,600 nonagricultural jobs in 2013, that figure is 0.1 percent lower than last year’s total (49,100) and helps to explain while the state’s recovery rate is slower than the nation’s. “Although our economy has improved the past two...

NCADD, Bloustein School hosting 2013 Legislative Event on prescription drug abuse, April 24

April 3, 2013

The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD) of Middlesex County and the Bloustein School are hosting the 2013 Legislative Event focusing on prescription drug abuse on Wednesday, April 24 at the Busch Campus Center, Piscataway, NJ on the campus of...

Workshop on Flood Mitigation and Hazard Reduction, March 16

March 1, 2013

The Raritan-Millstone Rivers Flood Control Commission (RMRFCC), in conjunction with the Sustainable Raritan River Initiative at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, is presenting an all-day “Workshop on Flood Mitigation and...