Dr. Craemer has explored various options for paying reparations to African-Americans for the enslavement of their ancestors, which would address the wealth gap that exists between whites and African Americans.
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A Thank-You to Our Essential Workers
While most Rutgers faculty and staff have been working remotely since the start of the pandemic, a group of university employees continued to report to campus to do their jobs.
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Nurturing young minds through nature: How Rutgers’ NTN program positively impacts at-risk youth
The Nurture through Nature program provides after-school and summer programs for students in the New Brunswick school district. Rigorous program evaluation methods are in place to ensure NtN produces measurable positive progress in student development.
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Research: Pandemic has exposed fatal health inequities
The financialization of the U.S. healthcare system, water supply, and food supply chain have all contributed to health inequities that resulted in the health care disaster of COVID-19, which could have been avoided.
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Sisters overcome family challenges to graduate with Honors
Before graduating with honors from the health administration program, sisters Lisa Diodoardo and Gianna Powell faced some hardship that would have derailed most people working toward a degree.
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Lisa K. Bates, PhD to discuss Portland’s implementation of “we shall seek social justice,” April 13
“We shall seek social justice” is one of the aspirational principles of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
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The economics, politics, and science of climate change
Discussing the social cost of carbon, how quantifying the costs affect policy decisions impacting the climate, and the evolution of the climate community in realizing that combating climate change required a closer understanding of broader political concerns.
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Catlin Memorial Lecture: The legacy of Wilson’s racial politics
Wilson’s progressive politics did not extend to racial politics. President Holloway noted that the distance between Wilson’s rhetoric and his policies was vast.
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New report identifies current and future training needs of public transportation industry
The Federal Transit Administration commissioned the National Transit Institute to conduct a study to assess and codify the public transportation industry’s training practices, interests, and priorities and determine training needs
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National political and policy check in: The first two months of the Biden Administration
A discussion about where we stand two months into the Biden Administration plus the vaccine rollout, the American Rescue Plan, the HR1 Voting Rights Act, the infrastructure investment bill and regulation.
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