More men entering female dominated fields

Dean James Hughes spoke with Dino Flammia of New Jersey 101.5 News Radio on Tuesday about the increase of men in traditionally female dominated fields.  “I think the overriding reason is that some traditional male-dominated occupations have been in steady decline,”...

Shaw honored for environmental leadership

Congratulations to Bloustein research associate Judy Shaw, who was recently honored by El Paso Corporation for her environmental leadership in the removal of the Calco Dam (read more about it here) and for her work helping to restore the Raritan River. Judy is the...

May 22: NJ Economic Policy Summit

NJ Economic Policy Summit: Presentation of CEO Survey on New Jersey Business Climate Date: Tuesday, May 22 Time: 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Cost: $25 (member), $45 (nonmember) Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue New Brunswick, NJ (Directions) Register Now On May...

EJB alum discusses pedestrian safety on New Jersey Public Radio

On Monday, May 14 recent alumnus Dan Kravetz MCRP-MPP ’12 was a guest on New Jersey Public Radio discussing pedestrian safety. The story, which used research completed by Kravetz and Dr. Robert Noland, also appears inTransportation Nation. Kravetz found that a...

Congratulations graduates!

The Bloustein School graduated: 92 M.C.R.P. 7 M.C.R.S. 14 M.P.P. 7 M.P.A.P. 10 Ph.D. 34 B.A. in Planning and Public Policy 218 B.S. in Public Health this weekend! Both the graduate AND undergraduate classes were the School’s largest ever. We wish all of our graduates...

New Heldrich Center survey of college grads

A new Heldrich Center survey of college graduates from 2006 to 2011 finds: Recent college graduates are struggling to find full-time jobs. In fact, just over half of recent college graduates are working full time. More than half of the nation’s recent college...

Congrats to Rutgers Student Employees of the Year!

We’d like to offer a special congratulations to MCRP graduate student Matt Campo and undergraduate public health major Brian Chang — selected as the Rutgers Student Employees of the Year! Campo worked at the Bloustein School’s Center for Transportation Safety,...

Curenton to join UMDNJ-RWJ faculty

Assistant Professor Stephanie Curenton was recently appointed as a volunteer adjunct assistant professor at the UMDNJ-RWJ Medical School Department of Pediatrics.

Visions of New Brunswick

Andrew I. Kay View Portfolio In this exercise, a site plan is created using Adobe Illustrator for a project for a “proposed” site, which in reality has already been completed. The basemap is from the 2002 orthophotography, taken before the construction of the Heldrich...

Bloomfield Center and Easton Avenue

Tiffany Pryce View Portfolio The site detailed is the “Six Points” downtown center of Bloomfield township. Bloomfield center was once the prime location for shopping and dining in the town but has been in decline for years. This drawing shows the Phase 1 portion of...

Chamazi Resettlement Project, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Margaret Rose Ricke View Portfolio The major goal of the Chamazi Project is to provide safe, secure and attainable housing for more than 500 families. The Federation and CCI have pursued a variety of strategies in pursuit of this goal. They have worked with municipal...

The Embankment: Jersey City, New Jersey

Jessica Hubbard View Portfolio Located among nine historic districts in downtown jersey city, the embankment is an elevated structure that once supported the tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad to the Hudson river waterfront. as of 1999, the structure itself is also...