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Nurse practitioners, physician assistants playing larger roles in health care — why some doctors are pushing back
Another difference is that physician assistants are educated more similarly to how a doctor is, to focus on the body’s respiratory, digestive and other systems, and symptoms common to those systems, said Ellen Kurtzman, a professor of health administration at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Kevin Dehmer, MPP ’08 Heldrich Center Executive Director, Nominated to be Commissioner of NJDOE
During his tenure at the Heldrich Center, Kevin Dehmer has provided outstanding leadership, supervising over 25 research and administrative professionals on multi-million-dollar projects aimed at raising the effectiveness of state and federal education, workforce, and social programs.
Compare Electric Rates in New Jersey
New Jersey deregulated its energy market in 1999, allowing people to choose which companies generate the electricity that powers their homes. “Not everyone is making the effort to take advantage of the opportunity to change,” said Clinton Andrews,
We can still make a good economy much better
“Progressives do not have the power — at least not yet — to win an economic bill of rights,” Mark Paul concedes. “To see poverty eradicated, progressives will have to continue pressing their case — via mass movements and grassroots organizing, over the dinner table, and in the public sphere.”
NJSPL – Are E-Scooter Users More Seriously Injured than E-Bike Users and Bicyclists?
Do e-scooters lead to more severe injuries than other micromobility modes? Which micromobility injuries are most commonly associated with a motor vehicle? What are some demographic differences related to e-scooter injuries (with equity implications)? Researchers Hannah Younes, Robert Noland and Leigh Ann Von Hagen worked on this study.
New Jersey Hit By Cyber Attacks On Schools, Hospitals
Class was canceled Monday across the Freehold Township school district, but not for the familiar January troubles of slushy roads, frozen pipes or a busted boiler. No, this was “a cybersecurity event” that ground school business to a halt. Marc Pfeiffer weighs in on ways to protect against such attacks.
Eagleton experts discuss new state law allowing 17-year-old voters to participate in primary elections
“New Jersey is a state whose politics are controlled by political machines, and they like to know who’s going to vote,” she said. “And the primary is the most important election in New Jersey because we don’t have very competitive general elections for the most part.” – Julia Sass Rubin
Rising Tides – Tackling Housing & Resilience in New Jersey’s Meadowlands
The studio team, led by Professor Barbara Faga in Fall 2023, analyzed areas for new affordable housing in the New Jersey Meadowlands District, an ecologically sensitive and economically valuable location in North Jersey.
Scientific Research needs a Radical Restructuring
Because senior researchers hire postdocs according to their projects’ need for labor, rather than the number of faculty openings awaiting the trainees, postdocs now vastly outnumber available faculty positions. The result: We have transformed a competition based on skills and talent into a lottery where few can win.
An uneven recovery? NAIOP panelists see different paths for different asset types in 2024
Rutgers professor Will Irving was less sanguine about the office market and the state’s economy. With respect to a hard or soft landing, he said, “it’s still a landing, and the landing that we’re seeing in New Jersey is a little ahead and a little harder than we’re seeing elsewhere.”
‘Kim-mentum?’ A tide of unease about Tammy Murphy washes across NJ Democratic grassroots
Kim’s campaign has attracted activists who have mobilized in recent years in an effort to reform or abolish the county party ballot “line,” based on research by Prof. Julia Sass Rubin.
Full-time perks for part-time work? For these politicians, taxpayers footed the bill
“There’s going to be a percentage — a small percentage — of outliers who try to or are gaming the system with this,” Pfeiffer said. “But at the same time, there’s a lot of people caught in the middle who actually do stuff.”