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Bloustein School announces new Associate Dean of Academic Administration

August 12, 2020

Dona Schneider will step down and Marc Weiner will assume the role on 9/1.

Recognizing our 2019-20 faculty retirees

August 6, 2020

Six long-time members have had an immense impact at the Bloustein School, Rutgers University, and the disciplines of planning, policy, and health.

Bloustein School seeking applications for part-time lecturers for urban planning and design courses

January 25, 2018

Hughes: NJ needs to "retrofit suburbia" to accommodate the new lifestyle requirements of young millennials

July 7, 2014

With one-quarter of New Jersey’s office space lying vacant, the state needs to engage in "retrofitting suburbia" in order to make spaces more attractive to young millennials, according to Dean James W. Hughes. He noted that the tech economy is moving to Brooklyn, and...

Heldrich Center, Federal Reserve Bank collaborate to address education, workforce development polices in edited book, October 2014 conference

May 28, 2014

Dr. Carl Van Horn, the founding director of the John H. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development and a visiting Non-Resident Scholar with the Federal Reserve Bank for the 2013-14 academic year, was recently promoted to the position of Distinguished Professor at the...

Greenberg discusses environmental impacts of Keystone XL pipeline

May 10, 2014

Bloustein professor Michael R. Greenberg, author of The Environmental Impact Statement After Two Generations: Managing Environmental Power, was interviewed by Scientific American recently about the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which forces agencies to...

Rutgers study finds after Hurricane Sandy, NJ residents support government mitigation, but not footing the bill

April 17, 2014

New Jersey residents who were surveyed four months after Hurricane Sandy battered the East Coast of the United States in October 2012 expressed strong support for government policies to reduce the likelihood of severe damage from future hurricanes, according to a...

Andrews, Greenberg reappointed to NJDEP Science Advisory Board

April 16, 2014

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s Office of Science recently announced that professor Clinton J. Andrews was reappointed to a three-year term to the NJDEP’s Science Advisory Board, and professor Michael R. Greenberg was reappointed to the Public...

Greenberg collaborates on virtual journal issue on the economics of risk analysis

March 20, 2014

Professor and Associate Dean of the Faculty Michael Greenberg, a former editor of Risk Analysis, An International Journal, and current editor Tony Cox, have collaborated on several edited books about terrorism risk analysis and more recently, the economics of risk...

Analyzing Regulation’s Impact On Jobs

March 17, 2014

The question of whether regulations to protect public health have hurt employment has been very prominent over the past few years. One study found that the use of the phrase “job-killing regulations” increased in the media by over 17,000 percent between 2007 and...