Michael Smart shares his background in transportation, discussing how his work with people reentering society after incarceration influenced his interest in transportation challenges and emphasizing the importance of meaningful research that addresses pressing societal issues and aims to impact real-world problems.
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EJB Talks with Professors Joel Cantor and Kathe Newman
Professors Joel Cantor and Kathe Newman are part of a new Rutgers initiative, the Housing and Health Equity Cluster, which aims to address health equity issues through interdisciplinary collaboration across university departments.
Bloustein Graduate Planning Studio Presents Recommendations to Dunellen Mayor and Borough Council
In mid-December, a Bloustein School graduate redevelopment studio hosted public presentations in Dunellen, NJ for the mayor and borough council, and for the redevelopment community meeting.
Four Bloustein Students Chosen as 2024 Eagleton Graduate Fellows
The Eagleton Graduate Fellowship Program, a core education program of the Eagleton Institute of Politics, was one of the first activities undertaken by the Institute after it was established in 1956 with a bequest from Florence Peshine Eagleton. Rutgers graduate...
Kedar Nagarajan Named ANHD/Morgan Stanley Community Development Graduate Fellow
Kedar Nagarajan (MCRP ’23) was one of nine graduate students selected as a 2023-24 Morgan Stanley Community Development Graduate Fellow. He has five years of professional experience across three of India’s largest cities Bangalore, Bombay and New Delhi and worked with Professor DeFilippis on an ethnographic research project.
Nashia Basit Named ANHD/Morgan Stanley Community Development Graduate Fellow
Nashia is a dual MPP/MCRP candidate and is passionate about expanding opportunities for underserved communities through the implementation of new social safety net programs.
Alumna Susana Gonzalez, AICP, MCRP ’18, highlighted by Congress for New Urbanism
Susana is as an accomplished professional with a rich background in architecture, urban planning, and community development, consistently making significant contributions to the field and striving to create sustainable and thriving urban environments.
Bloustein’s graduate program in urban planning remains the #3 planning program in the US
The 2023 edition of the Planetizen Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs has ranked the Bloustein School’s Program in Urban Planning and Policy Development 3rd among the Top 25 graduate urban planning programs. This was the same as our previous ranking.
NJSPL – Fifteen-Minute Neighborhoods in New Jersey
Over the past several months, researchers from the Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC) have been leading a graduate planning studio examining how the 15-minute neighborhoods planning model can be applied throughout New Jersey by developing three case studies in Bridgeton, Cherry Hill Township, and Newark.
EJB Talks New Faculty Spotlight: From SARS to HIV – Inspiring a Career in Public Health
Assistant Professor Yen-Tyng Chen talks about how the SARS outbreak personally impacted her interest in public health, and shares how her experiences during her Ph.D. studies inspired her personal and intellectual interests in how race and built environments have huge impacts on health disparities.
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Bloustein School Convocation
Jersey Mike's Arena 83 Rockefeller Road, Piscataway, NJ, United StatesThe formal BLOUSTEIN SCHOOL CONVOCATION ceremony will recognize each graduate individually with pomp and circumstance. Students will cross the stage and have their names read as they are recognized. Seating is general […]
Dissertation Proposal: Pixels, Plates, and Pesos: On Digital Food Delivery Platforms and Socio-Economic Change in the Philippines
Virtualpresented by Nasha Virata
Implications of Robotics for Public Policy
VirtualThis presentation offers a systematic analysis of the emerging routes by which applications of embodied artificial intelligence—robotics—elicit public policy responses.
2024 Transit-Oriented Development Symposium
Bloustein School, Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesRegistration is now open for the 2024 TOD Symposium. This free full-day event will be held in person on Thursday, May 16, 2024 at the Edward J. Bloustein School of […]
2024 New Jersey Big Data Alliance Annual Symposium: Artificial Intelligence Impacts on Society & Higher Education
Douglass Student Center 100 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesThe New Jersey Big Data Alliance (NJBDA) is an alliance of leading higher education institutions, government organizations and industry members that catalyzes research and collaboration in advanced computing and data […]