A View of Tomorrow–With virtual reality, juvenile lifers practice for a world they may experience
As the promise of VR spreads, critics assert that prisons are looking for a relatively inexpensive tech solution to a social problem. How well VR works to rehabilitate inmates is unknown since these programs are the first of their kind. Nancy Wolfe, a professor at Rutgers University whose research focuses on mental health issues and […]
A new shift toward suburbanization? RRR analyzes Census dating showing population growth in surburbia surpassing that of urban core
A new Rutgers Regional Report, “The ‘Burbs’ Bounce Back: ‘Trendlet’ or ‘Dead Cat Bounce’?” finds that the predicted transformative demographic shifts of the early part of the decade (2010-2016)—an urban resurgence and a suburban malaise—may, in fact, be reversing. The report, authored by James W. Hughes, University Professor and Dean Emeritus of the Bloustein School; Joseph J. […]
Frank Felder, director of CEEEP, appointed new director of Rutgers Energy Institute
Frank A. Felder, Research Professor and Director of the Bloustein School’s Center for Energy, Economic and Environmental Policy (CEEEP), has been appointed Director of the Rutgers Energy Institute (REI) effective August 1, 2018. The announcement was made by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation on July 16. The Rutgers Energy Institute […]
Alum Angela Burnett Penn MCRP ’14 discusses work in BVI and the aftermath of Irma
by Silvia Cuevas, MCRP ’19 August 7th, 2017 could have been a normal day for the British Virgin Islands. It was the tail-end of the islands’ dry season, a time of sunshine and balmy temperatures. On this particular day, however, it was everything but normal when the islands received a quarter of their annual rainfall. The […]
Alumni Spotlight: Jazmyne McNeese MPP ’18
by Zoe Linder-Baptie MPP/MCRP ’18 Jazmyne graduated from the Bloustein School in May 2018 with a Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree and a concentration in race and economics. Her journey has been busy, and she continues to move onward and upward. Later this year, she will begin the next phase of her journey as she enters […]