Joe Zagari wasn’t necessarily looking to network, much less find an internship in commercial real estate.
But the Rutgers University graduate student would accomplish both after accepting the invitation of classmate Mark Russo, NAIOP New Jersey’s education coordinator, to attend one of the organization’s events in 2012. Zagari, then a student at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, was preparing to hear Dean James Hughes speak when he sat down next to Mark Goldstein.
Read Original Post on Rutgers Today, April 28, 2026 Lt. Governor’s Daughter Blazes Her Own Trail of Service at Rutgers Ashley Caldwell, who has served on the New Brunswick school board since her junior year, graduates this spring On the first day of her final semester...
Students enrolled in Introduction to Urban Planning & Design recently took part in a hands-on field trip to two recently completed waterfront park projects as part of the course's Spring lecture series and experiential learning component. Led by Professor Carmelo...
The Bloustein School is pleased to announce that at their recent meeting, the Rutgers Board of Governors approved Will Payne and Jermaine Toney as Associate Professors with tenure. In his research, Will uses quantitative and qualitative methods to study the...
Over the last few months several Bloustein School alumni and faculty have been elected, or appointed to, key positions in New Jersey and elsewhere, underscoring the school’s longstanding role in preparing leaders who shape public policy across the state. “These...
Read Report It is my privilege to serve as the Executive Director of the New Jersey State Policy Lab. Since its launch in 2021, we have worked to build something meaningful—producing high-quality blogs and reports, sharing them widely on our website and across social...