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Ellen Oettinger White is recipient of WTS Greater New York Helene M. Overly/Leonard Braun Graduate Scholarship
The scholarship established in 1981 to encourage women to pursue career paths in transportation and is awarded to women pursuing graduate studies in transportation or a related field.
Could A Surfside Building Disaster Happen On The NY Or NJ Coast?
Last week, search crews reached the bottom of the rubble at the Champlain Towers condo building site in Surfside, Florida, where at least 98 people perished due to a deadly collapse in June. The exact cause is still unclear, but lack of...
Improving the public good: Health administration at the Bloustein School
The Bloustein School’s rapidly growing MHA program is preparing future health administrators to improve community access to health care.
Urban narratives generate advocacy, public policy in support of under-resourced communities post-COVID
Spanning communities, racial and ethnic groups, and social classes across New Jersey, researchers sought to understand how crises such as pandemics can be handled better.
Ph.D. candidate Lauren Nolan selected for Rutgers PreDoctoral Leadership Academy
PDLA is a one-year program designed to provide doctoral students from a broad array of academic disciplines with the supplemental knowledge and skills needed for academic and administrative leadership roles.
More states are ending jobless benefit, but will workers return?
“When there’s a quick ramping up of the (economy), there’s a quick demand for workers and that means the people who pay more are going to get those workers ... just as when there’s a labor surplus they’re able to pay less and still get a competent workforce,’’ says...
From the Garden State to Route 66
Stuart Shapiro and David Listokin discuss the significance and impact of current reverse migration trends as well as the economic impacts of historic preservation activities on Route 66.
Research: zipcodeR integrates open-source datasets, official government crosswalk files to provide data on over 41,000 ZIP codes
ZIP codes are one of the most common forms of geographic data encountered by researchers in the social sciences.
Why the Olympics ban on Black hair swim caps is disturbing | Opinion
Diversity in swimming has always been an issue. In the United States, the overwhelming majority of swimmers are white. According to a 2019 Swimming Membership Demographics report, only 0.8% of their 327,337 swimmers were Black men, and 0.6% Black women. Although...
Dawne Mouzon, Kelcie Ralph receive Rutgers University Research Council Program Awards
The Research Council provides seed funding for faculty research to encourage scholarship tackling challenging disciplinary problems in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and creative arts.
Ph.D. candidate Stephanie Holcomb is recipient of Horowitz Foundation social science research grant
She is one of 25 scholars chosen to receive a social science research grant to support her dissertation research on how county-level administration of cash assistance affects program access and equity.
Many factors may have been at play – Experts differ on possible causes for the collapse
For four decades, the Champlain Tower South condominium sat about 100 yards from the sea, much of that distance covered by sand. During that time, the tide ebbed and flowed toward the building nearly 60,000 times. A full moon rose in the sky 500 times. The condo...