The scholarship promotes environmental studies by students who are residents of New Jersey or nonresidents studying in New Jersey or its surrounding waters.
Topic
Urban Planning
Red Bank “magic wand” ideas sought
Here’s a ‘magic wand’ question for you: if you could instantly transform Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank, what would it become? Ditto for creating direct access to the Navesink River from Broad Street: what’s your dream? Borough residents and other interested parties...
Do businesses hold the key for sustainable cities?
While all 17 of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals are ambitious, you can make a strong case that SDG11 is among the most stretching of goals. In aiming to make cities "inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable", it sets itself a challenge that gets bigger with...
Building community: How urban planning, design impact cities
The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy hosted a special series of panel discussion talks this Wednesday with several professionals and professors within spatial planning and urban design. The panel discussion, called "Designing Value — The Impact...
Urban planning alumnus Jessica Schellack builds community — with coffee
With an undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Michigan, it makes sense that Jessica has always spent time thinking about space and how people relate to the space around them—especially how a building or business will affect those living in the surrounding community. Prior to pursuing her City and Regional Planning degree, Jessica was living in Colorado and working at a third wave coffee roastery.
Bloustein School seeking applications for part-time lecturers for urban planning and design courses
Bloustein's graduate program in urban planning moves up to #5 in 2017 Planetizen rankings
The 2017 edition of the Planetizen Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs has ranked the Bloustein School’s Program in Urban Planning and Policy Development 5th among the Top 25 graduate urban planning programs. For the fourth straight release, the Massachusetts...
Bloustein Faculty Profile: Mike Smart, assistant professor of transportation planning
by Paul Hislip, Communications intern (Class of 2018) I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Bloustein School assistant professor Michael Smart, whose primary research has explored the ways in which social networks embedded in particular neighborhoods of...
Urban planner: Macon silent on visual preference survey results
Anton Nelessen, a professor of urban planning and design at Rutgers University, conducted the survey, as he has in 167 cities in the United States and many others around the world. Nelessen recalls resistance bordering on hostility to his work in Macon. He heard the...
Rutgers to host statewide conference on health impact assessment in New Jersey, May 7
The New Jersey Health Impact Collaborative (NJHIC), a collaboration of Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS), is hosting a statewide conference on Health Impact Assessment (HIA)...