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NJSPL Report: Crash Data Availability and Best Practices
Researchers interviewed an array of subject matter experts, including state DOT staff, transportation advocates, and public health professionals to identify their best practices and show how crash data is made available across the nation.
Heldrich Report: Voices of the Family Child Care Workforce in NJ
In 2024, the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development launched a statewide survey of registered family child care (FCC) providers in New Jersey as part of the Rutgers Child Care Research Collaborative, an initiative focused on child care in the state. The survey asked individuals who provide child care in their homes to share their voices and experiences — from what inspires them to enter and stay in the field, to the challenges they face in their daily work, and their ideas for making child care a more sustainable and rewarding profession.
‘Was it all smoke and mirrors?’: How adult children are affected by grey divorce
“Women are basically the social directors of family life still in 2025, and when that goes away men become like islands in the sea,” says Crowley.
Prof. Cantor Receives Chancellor’s Lifetime Achievement Award
Professor Joel Cantor received the 2025 Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award from Rutgers Health Office of the Chancellor.
Does new NJ law allow school districts to bypass voter approval on capital projects?
Pfeiffer said voters go to the polls and reject measures for a number of reasons, depending on other conditions. They may be voting no because they don’t like the way their municipality is run, or because of economic conditions or other factors, without regard to what is going on with its schools and their needs, he said.
Assessing Pedestrian Stress with Biometrics & Surveys
We investigate the association between pedestrians’ sensor-measured stress and survey-reported stress, as well as the temporal sensitivity of sensor metrics across varying time intervals.
Intelligent Informatics @ Bloustein: AI AGENTS to the Rescue!? An Overview of the Opportunities, Risks and Economics of Agentic AI
Rutgers Informatics Forum on Agentic Artificial Intelligence This webinar will host an eminent expert on agentic AI, and will also provide insights into the advanced data science, informatics and AI education, and preparation needed for informatics, DS and AI jobs and...
NJ job market ‘stalled’ by layoffs, weak hiring
The job market so far this year in New Jersey has been “a mixed bag — overall, relatively weak,” said Will Irving with the Rutgers University New Jersey State Policy Lab. “We are through July down about 7,800 jobs, net, and that reflects losses in both a number of private-sector industries and public sector, state government in particular.”
Understanding Awareness and Perceptions of Palliative Care
Conducted in partnership with the Goals of Care Coalition of New Jersey (GOCCNJ) and the Rutgers Cancer Institute (CINJ), the research aims to inform patient-facing education, identify barriers to care, and support equitable implementation of New Jersey’s Medicaid palliative care initiative. D
“Work Trends RU” Podcast with Kevin Dehmer
Join the Heldrich Center for a special “Back to School” episode of the Work Trends RU podcast series, featuring New Jersey Department of Education Commissioner Kevin Dehmer.
Rising Costs of Homeownership in New Jersey
In a new brief from the Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality, and Metropolitian Equity (CLiME), Assistant Director of Housing Studies Katie Nelson PhD ’22 and student research assistant Miranda Alpertstein MCRP ’25 explore the sky-high and rapidly rising costs of being a homeowner in New Jersey. This includes both mortgage and non-mortgage housing costs.
Local Agencies Look to the Right Video Storage Solution for Their Environments
A number of hardware vendors have introduced Storage as a Service elements, Pfeiffer says, which could potentially help state and local governments simplify video data administration.
“You can buy cameras, pay for them over a number of years and get storage along with it,” he says