Bloustein Research Day
2024-04-12 09:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Gov. James J. Florio Special Events Forum, CSB, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
You are invited to our third annual Bloustein Research Day! It will be an in-person event. Anyone may register to attend. Faculty and staff may sign up to deliver lightning talks. Graduate and undergraduate students may sign up to present posters and potentially win a Best Poster Award. We strongly encourage participation by all members of the Bloustein community. Sign up today!
Registration: https://forms.office.com/r/RRag8YBJAc
Agenda:
Continental Breakfast (8:00 – 9:00 am)
Faculty/Staff Lightning Talks (9:00 – 10:15 am)

Jane Miller
Beyond Statistical Significance: A Holistic View of What Makes a Quantitative Research Finding “Important”

Andrea Hetling
State welfare policies and racial equity: Assessing the impact of COVID-19 policies on caseloads?

Muazzam Toshmatova
Using the New Jersey Statewide Data System to explore Dual Enrollment Outcomes

Julia Sass Rubin
The Impact of New Jersey’s County Line Primary Ballots

Ruth Winecoff
Longitudinal Spillovers in Public Benefits Enrollment: The Effect of the Medicaid Expansion on Future Medicare Insurance Choices

Jon Carnegie
Transit use, gender and sexual orientation: How identity influences how we travel

Hannah Younes
Are e-scooters more dangerous than e-bikes and bicycles?

Yen-Tyng Chen
Racial discrimination and mental health in the context of anti-Asian xenophobia: An intersecting approach of race, ethnicity, nativity, and socioeconomic status.

Janine Barr
“And the survey says!”: A Case Study on Engaging Stakeholders to Inform Statewide Environmental Policy

Andrea Restrepo-Mieth
Environmental Conservation and the Politics of Infrastructure Scarcity in Galápagos, Ecuador

Garin Bulger
A Case Study Analysis of Food Sovereignty as a Climate Adaptation Strategy across the Americas

Jeanne Herb
Research informing action: Expanding access to nature for people with disabilities

Vanessa Tropiano
Better Buyouts: Collaborative Research to Inform NJDEP’s Blue Acres Program

Pritpal Bamhrah
Flooding Impact on Municipal Finance in NJ – NJ Adapt based analysis

Student Poster Session (10:15 – 11:30 am) with Light Refreshments
Keynote Address (11:30 am – 12 pm) Keynote Address by Dr. Joel Cantor
FAQ: What’s a lightning talk? What a poster presentation?
Organizing Committee: Clint Andrews, Liz Cooner, Laura Geronimo, Jeanne Herb, David Listokin, Will Payne

Career Virtual Drop-ins
2024-04-15 11:00 - 13:00, 2024-04-22 11:00 - 13:00, 2024-04-29 11:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Bloustein Career Development Specialists Cheryl Egan and Andrea Garrido will be in a Zoom Room on Monday’s beginning January 22, 2024 (excluding holidays and spring break) to answer questions, provide advice. No need to make an appointment! Simply drop in to speak with one or both of them!
URL: https://go.rutgers.edu/VirtualCareerDropIns

Freights and Ports Capstone Presentations 1
2024-04-15 18:00 - 21:00 | Virtual
All are invited to attend the capstone presentations to be given by graduate students in the Urban Planning: Freights and Ports course. There will be two sessions: Monday, April 15, and Monday, April 22, both from 6-9 pm.
A complete list of presenters and times for each session are included below, as well as in the attached PDF. Questions and comments will be limited to mentors who will be attending and viewing the presentations, so the audience will otherwise remain muted. The students have been working hard on their projects and presentations, and this year’s topics are excellent, so all you have to do is log in and listen!
These events will be held on Zoom only; please check the Bloustein listserv for an email sent out with Meeting ID and passcode information.

Bloustein Research Seminar Series: Soon Yeon Lim and Lauren Nolan
2024-04-16 16:00 - 17:15 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
From Flowers to High-Rises: How Planning Experts Shape Greenbelt Land Development
and
“Information not Provided by Applicant”: Missingness in Mortgage Lending Data and its Implications for Assessing Fair Lending Practices.
This venue will enable our faculty to share research, build community, and extend our networks. Pizza will be served. The goal is for the seminar to include a mix of Bloustein faculty, occasional advanced PhD students, and external speakers who will present research talks. The seminar series is open to the entire Bloustein community.

Evaluating sectoral decarbonization pathways for India’s net-zero ambitions
2024-04-18 09:50 - 11:30 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
You are invited to join Professor Mike Lahr for a guest speaker presentation by Professor Kakali Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D. (she/her/elle), McGill University, Montreal, CANADA
Associated reading: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667095X22000113
PAPER ABSTRACT:
In the first of its kind, this study evaluates the socio-economic impacts of two ambitious decarbonization pathways for India (i) aligned with India’s Nationally Determined Commitments (NDC) negotiated through the Paris Agreement in 2015 and (ii) more ambitious NDC plus decarbonization trajectory aligned with India’s recent COP26 commitments at subnational level. The analysis uses a newly developed dynamic macro-econometric regional simulation model – E3-India to evaluate changes in key economic and emission parameters due to energy transition at both national and state levels for India. Impacts on emission intensity of the economy, GDP, employment and income are assessed to highlight the larger macro-economic and regional distributive impacts of existing NDC targets for India.
The results provide three key insights, (i) overall socio-economic impacts of committing to an ambitious decarbonization trajectory primarily articulated through NDCs for India will be positive, but the transition trajectory will have unequal distributive impacts across states and sectors. (ii)The NDC trajectories will have an expansive impact on the harder-to-abate construction sector so along with decarbonization of the energy sector, the steel and cement sector would also need focused decarbonization measures. (iii) In the absence of policies promoting ‘Just transitions’ smaller coal-bearing states will be worst off, stuck with the expansion of only primary and extractive mining sectors while high renewable energy potential states will show expansion in technology-focused sectors and high skilled sectors.
BIO:
Kakali Mukhopadhyay is an Associate Professor for the Agricultural Economics Program (Department of Natural Resource Sciences) at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. She is a former Professor of Economics at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune, India and Adjunct Professor/Senior Fellow associate at McGill University, Department of Agricultural Economics (2016-23). She earned an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in economics with specialization in energy and environment from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India. She has been a senior advisor of E3-India Model, a collaborative initiative of the Regulatory Assistance Project, Vermont, USA and Cambridge Econometrics, UK, for its development and validation.
Prior to joining McGill in 2007, she was a postdoctoral research fellow and subsequently a faculty at the Center for Development and Environmental Policy, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, and Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India. She was also a postdoctoral/visiting fellow/visiting research scholar of the Faculty of Business Management, Oulu University (Finland 2001,2007); Stockholm Environment Institute (Sweden 2001); the SOM Research School, Groningen University (the Netherlands 2003); UNU MERIT, Maastricht University (the Netherlands 2003;2010;2019); OECD (2017) and the School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand 2005). Additionally, she has served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the De La Salle University, Manila, the Philippines (2014,2016), and as a visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (2017).
Her research focuses on energy and environment, renewable energy and economic growth, trade and environment, air pollution and health, regional economic integration, R&D, Global Value Chain, economics of health and Nutrition, and food safety. She has received a number of international fellowships and awards by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Indo-Dutch Program, the Ford Foundation, and the Presidential Award from the Chinese Government. She has also received the Best Professor Award in Energy and Environmental Economics in 2017 and 2018, under the National Education Award in India. She holds a key expert position at the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and similar positions in ASEAN Vision 2025, the Asian Development Bank, and Shastri Indo-Canadian Program. As the Project Director, the first of its kind regional Supply Use Table for the state of Maharashtra was constructed, sponsored by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Maharashtra at GIPE, Pune.
She has over 110 publications including peer-reviewed journal articles of international repute and several books, edited book chapters, popular articles and working papers. She has authored seven books in various fields of energy, environmental pollution, trade and I-O modelling. She has completed several studies on behalf of the United Nations Environment Programme, UN-ESCAP, UNCTAD, Asian Development Bank, ERIA-Indonesia, Shastri-Indo Canadian Institute, Public Health Agency of Canada, Genome Canada and Genome Quebec, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, BioFuelNet Canada, West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency, Indian Council of Social Science Research, Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Maharashtra and South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics—SANDEE.

Caring for Me is Caring for You: A Win-Win Strategy to Thrive Personally and Professionally
2024-04-18 16:00 - 17:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Recognized as a passionate leader in education, research and clinical care, Dr. Catherine Florio Pipas is the author of A Doctor’s Dozen: 12 Strategies for Personal Health and a Culture of Wellness. The book delivers the framework for a wellness curriculum for health professionals – and everyone else! Committed to improving health nationally and internationally, Dr. Pipas provides coaching and training across professions to promote healthy individuals and healthy organizations. Her vision is for Healthy Individuals Contributing to Healthy Communities.
In this talk, she will discuss the importance of well-being and drivers of burnout for all health professionals. By applying evidence -based wellbeing strategies to advance personal health, she aims to help professionals create their own personal health improvement plan (PHIP) to sustain well-being over a lifetime.
Guests are invited to join us for a short reception immediately following the lecture to honor the life and public service career of Gov. James J. Florio. Following a tour in the U.S. Navy, he served three terms in the New Jersey General Assembly and represented New Jersey’s First Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1990. He served as New Jersey’s Governor from 1990-1994 and as a Senior Fellow for Public Policy at the Bloustein School, teaching classes for the next generation of policy makers through his passing in September 2022. The reception will begin at approximately 5:30 p.m. in the Main Lobby of the Bloustein School.

Spring Health Administration Virtual Networking Event
2024-04-18 16:30 - 18:30 | Virtual
Interested in learning more about careers in various healthcare sectors? Attend this virtual networking event to meet with, ask questions, and gain invaluable advice from Bloustein Alumni who graduated from the MHA, undergraduate Health Administration and Public Health programs and are working in various healthcare industries.
RSVP HERE

RAISE 2024: Student Data Science / Informatics Competition Finals
2024-04-19 08:30 - 12:30 | Gov. James J. Florio Special Events Forum, CSB, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Rethinking AI for Shared Empowerment (RAISE) 2024 is a public informatics data science competition that will test skills in data analysis and problem-solving while highlighting the importance of data analysis in enabling improvements to public policy and social empowerment. Hosted by Rutgers Bloustein School’s Master of Public Informatics (MPI) program, this year’s theme is Does News Media Spread Fear of AI? Teams can include 2-5 members of all undergraduate or all graduate students.

The competition is open to currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students from accredited US institutions. Participants must be legally residing in the US for the entire duration of the competition.

Priority team registrations
Feb 15 2024
Submission deadline
March 10 2024

Finalists announced
March 14 2024
Final materials submission
April 14 2024

Final in-person round will be held at the Bloustein School, New Brunswick, NJ on April 19 2024.
Gov. James J. Florio Special Events Forum, Bloustein School

To register as a participant, please visit https://go.rutgers.edu/RAISE24event

15-Minute Neighborhoods
2024-04-19 11:00 - 14:30 | Virtual
15 Minute Neighborhoods: A Pathway to Creating Healthier, More Just, Resilient & Sustainable Communities in New Jersey
The 15-minute neighborhood concept gained visibility as the global pandemic demonstrated that local access to basic life needs is critically important. In addition to being an important contribution to New Jersey’s efforts to achieve its goals of reducing pollution that causes climate change, 15-minute neighborhoods provide residents with easy access to parks, schools, gathering places, social services, places to buy healthy fresh food, and, in some cases, public transit, within a comfortable walk or bike ride.
Near-term, multi-billion-dollar investments in infrastructure, a revolution in transportation technologies not seen in a century, the recalibration of relationships between people and places brought about by the pandemic, and converging policies related to energy, health, climate, transportation, and environmental justice provide New Jersey with an unprecedented opportunity to rethink and adjust how we design and build communities.
Join Jon Carnegie, Executive Director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University, for a summary of a two-year study designed to investigate how a comprehensive, multi-goal planning and policy framework can be used to achieve carbon-neutral transportation choices that simultaneously support healthy, just, and resilient communities for all New Jersey residents.
PRESENTATION
Jon Carnegie, Executive Director, Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, Rutgers University
MODERATOR
Jeanne Herb, Executive Director, Environmental Analysis and Communications Group, Rutgers University Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
RESPONSE PANEL
Alex Ambrose, Policy Analyst, New Jersey Policy Perspective
Zoe Baldwin, Vice President, Regional Plan Association
Elizabeth Semple, Director of Adaptation, The Nature Conservancy NJ
Register Here

Freights and Ports Capstone Presentations 2
2024-04-22 18:00 - 21:00 | Virtual

Undergraduate Prospective Student Information Sessions (PSIS)
2024-04-23 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
The Prospective Student Information Sessions give interested students an opportunity to learn about the undergraduate program offerings at the Bloustein School. There is an overview of each major, minor, and certificate program, including the admissions criteria and application processes for current and prospective Rutgers students. Also, students are encouraged to bring questions and the host advisor(s) will be glad to answer them or refer the student to the appropriate department/office.
Sessions will be offered via Zoom. A link will be sent to registered students the day prior to the event.
The sessions are approximately one hour. Please log in on time.
Please register

Master of Health Administration Town Hall
2024-04-23 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual
The Town Hall is an open and informal forum discussion for students to provide feedback, offer suggestions, and hear the most up to date news about the program.
Hosted by Susan Krum, Interim MHA Program Director; Matthew Rivera, VP of Health Administration for Bloustein Graduate Student Association; Courtney Culler, Associate Director for Graduate Student Services ; and Greg Marrero, Student Counselor for Graduate Student Services.
RSVP HERE

CAWP's Annual Senator Wynona Lipman Chair in Women's Political Leadership with U.S. Senator Laphonza Butler
2024-04-24 19:00 - 20:00 | Ludwig Global Village Living Learning Center, 9 Suydam Street, New Brunswick, 08901, United States
The Power of Black Women’s Leadership in Politics
U.S. Senator Laphonza Butler
Appointed to the United States Senate by California Governor Gavin Newsome, Senator Laphonza Butler has spent her career championing fairness and justice. For nearly two decades, she was an organizer and leader in the labor movement. At just 30 years old Senator Butler was elected president of California’s largest homecare and nursing home workers union SEIU local 2015. She helped to orchestrate raising California’s minimum wage to $15 an hour and secure paid sick days for the state’s home care workers. As president, she united the power of home care workers statewide, growing the union’s membership to more than 325,000 and making SEIU 2015 the largest homecare worker union in America. From working to expand retirement security by passing CA Secure Choice Retirement Savings program, to efforts to improve health outcomes by passing legislation to protect children from cigarette marketing, Butler has been able to work across traditional lines of difference in order to make progress on issues that matter. Prior to her appointment to the Senate, Senator Butler was president of EMILYs list, which is dedicated to electing Democratic pro-choice women. During her tenure, EMILYs list recruited and supported over 600 women to run for elected office.
Register Here

Bloustein Honors Research Program Poster Session
2024-04-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
The members of the 2023-24 Bloustein Honors Research Program cohort will be presenting their individual research projects in a Research Poster Session on Thursday, April 25, from noon to 2:00 pm
They will also present an Oral Thesis Defense on Thursday, May 2, noon to 2:30 pm.
Both events will be held in the Civic Square Building, Room 369, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick.
During the poster session, students will present a brief overview of their project and answer questions from the audience about the poster portrayal of their work. During the oral thesis defense, each student will give a 15-minute academic research presentation about their project and answer questions from the faculty, leadership, and others in the audience.

Korea Development Institute Policy Paper Presentations
2024-04-25 13:00 - 16:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
All members of the Bloustein community are invited to the final presentation of policy papers by our Korea Development Institute students. Faculty, staff, and students are all welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be served.

Career Services: What's It Like To Be an International Alumnus Who is Successfully Employed in the U.S.?
2024-04-25 16:30 - 17:30 | Virtual
Alumni of the Bloustein School and prospective employers will speak about jobs and careers in the urban planning, policy and health administration fields in the series, “What’s It Like To Be…”. Join us and learn the real deal about their day-to-day jobs and information you definitely won’t find on a job description,
Hear from Bloustein International alumni to learn how they navigated their time at Bloustein and landed internships, fellowships, and jobs after graduating. Ask your questions and get advice from with those who were once in your shoes.
RSVP HERE

Career Services: What's It Like To Apply To and Interview For Administrative Fellowships?
2024-04-25 16:30 - 18:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Alumni of the Bloustein School and prospective employers will speak about jobs and careers in the urban planning, policy and health administration fields in the series, “What’s It Like To Be…”. Join us and learn the real deal about their day-to-day jobs and information you definitely won’t find on a job description!
Join current Rutgers MHA students who have accepted Administrative Fellowship offers as they candidly discuss their administrative fellowship process. Topics of discussion will include:

Choosing and narrowing down fellowship locations
Types of fellowship programs (rotational, project-based)
Essay writing process
Interview process
Making a final decision

Moderated by Professor Ceu Cirne-Neves

ZOOM RSVP HERE or email cheryl.egan [at] rutgers.edu for the in-person session.

Placemaking in Context: Honoring the Culture and History of Communities
2024-04-26 09:00 - 12:15 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Placemaking strengthens the connection between people and places. Join us as we examine placemaking through a lens of arts and humanities with transportation, highlighting the culture and histories of local communities and encouraging safe, active transportation through the built environment.
This workshop, Honoring the Culture and History of Communities, is open to municipalities, planners, and anyone else interested in learning about placemaking. Speakers represent a variety of projects and places with different goals and outcomes – remembering events of the past, preserving community memories, acknowledging changing landscapes, and celebrating communities that occupy spaces in the present.
Attendees will walk away with:

Examples of diverse types of placemaking, demonstrated by the variety of speakers, projects, and locations.
The integration of arts and humanities into placemaking through public history, landscape architecture, and storytelling.
Placemaking and active transportation through presentations about Strollology (the science of walking), public art, and safety.
An opportunity to share their own ideas and troubleshoot issues in their communities through a hands-on workshop.

For more information and to register, visit https://placemakingvpp.eventbrite.com/

Rutgers University Spring Career and Internship Fair
2024-04-26 11:30 - 15:30 | Jersey Mike’s Arena, 83 Rockefeller Road, Piscataway, NJ, United States
Rutgers Career Exploration and Success invites the entire Rutgers community and beyond to join them in person to network and engage with over 150 employment organizations. View the complete list of participating employers via the Rutgers Handshake platform or careers.rutgers.edu/career-fairs. Rutgers candidates are encouraged to pre-register; however, walk-ins are welcome.

Rutgers Day
2024-04-27 10:00 - 16:00 | Rutgers University
Rutgers Day is set for Saturday, April 27, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. on the Busch Campus in Piscataway and the College Avenue and Cook/Douglass campuses in New Brunswick. Get ready for the ultimate celebration of everything Rutgers!
Keep checking the Rutgers Day website for updates and details on participation and programming.
Go to Rutgers Day website.

Bloustein Research Seminar Series: Community benefits: Developers, negotiations, and accountability
2024-04-30 16:00 - 17:15 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Presented by Jovanna Rosen, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Rutgers-University Camden.
This venue will enable our faculty to share research, build community, and extend our networks. Pizza will be served. The goal is for the seminar to include a mix of Bloustein faculty, occasional advanced PhD students, and external speakers who will present research talks. The seminar series is open to the entire Bloustein community.

Bloustein Honors Research Program Oral Thesis Defense
2024-05-02 12:00 - 14:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
The members of the 2023-24 Bloustein Honors Research Program cohort will be presenting an Oral Thesis Defense on Thursday, May 2, noon to 2:30 pm.
They will also present their individual research projects in a Research Poster Session on Thursday, April 25, from noon to 2:00 pm
Both events will be held in the Civic Square Building, Room 369, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick.
During the poster session, students will present a brief overview of their project and answer questions from the audience about the poster portrayal of their work. During the oral thesis defense, each student will give a 15-minute academic research presentation about their project and answer questions from the faculty, leadership, and others in the audience.

Bloustein Honors Research Program Oral Thesis Defense
2024-05-02 12:00 - 14:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
The members of the 2023-24 Bloustein Honors Research Program cohort will be presenting an Oral Thesis Defense on Thursday, May 1, noon to 2:30 pm in room 369
They will also present their individual research projects in a Research Poster Session on Thursday, April 24, from noon to 2:00 pm in the Florio Special Events Forum
During the poster session, students will present a brief overview of their project and answer questions from the audience about the poster portrayal of their work. During the oral thesis defense, each student will give a 15-minute academic research presentation about their project and answer questions from the faculty, leadership, and others in the audience.

Dissertation Proposal: Shaping Educational Equity: Understanding School Segregation in New Jersey from Black and Latino Parent and Caregiver Perspectives
2024-05-07 11:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
presented by Molly Basdeo Mountjoy

Rutgers University–New Brunswick and Rutgers Health Commencement 2024
2024-05-12 10:00 - 12:00 | SHI Stadium
Join us for the 258th Anniversary Commencement at Rutgers University–New Brunswick and Rutgers Health on Sunday, May 12, 2024, at SHI Stadium, starting at 10 a.m. President Jonathan Holloway will preside over the ceremony, conferring degrees to graduates and honorary recipients. Don’t miss out on this unforgettable experience!
In addition to the main Commencement event, partake in the School-hosted Convocation ceremonies happening around Commencement days. This is your chance to walk the stage and be individually recognized alongside your dean and peers.
All students affiliated with Rutgers University–New Brunswick and Rutgers Health, along with their guests, are invited to make the most of this celebratory occasion by attending both the Commencement and convocation ceremonies. See you there!

Bloustein School Convocation
2024-05-13 10:00 - 12:00 | Jersey Mike’s Arena, 83 Rockefeller Road, Piscataway, NJ, United States
The formal BLOUSTEIN SCHOOL CONVOCATION ceremony will recognize each graduate individually with pomp and circumstance. Students will cross the stage and have their names read as they are recognized. Seating is general admission with no tickets and no limits on numbers of family, friends or guests. Parking is ample and available in the Yellow and Green Lots adjacent to Jersey Mike’s Arena.
Important note: GRADUATE students with August 2023, October 2023, January 2024, May 2024 and August 2024 degree dates, and UNDERGRADUATE students with January 2024, May 2024, and August 2024 are invited to participate in the school convocation.
STUDENT GRADUATION PAGE

Dissertation Proposal: Pixels, Plates, and Pesos: On Digital Food Delivery Platforms and Socio-Economic Change in the Philippines
2024-05-14 15:00 - 17:00 | Virtual
presented by Nasha Virata

Implications of Robotics for Public Policy
2024-05-15 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual
Online presentation by Prof. Clint Andrews
Innovations in robotics are now present in many aspects of human endeavour, from robotic vacuum cleaners to autonomous battlefield drone swarms. Alongside the intended effects of these innovations are some emerging, unintended adverse consequences. Legal and political processes exist in part to prevent and mitigate such harms. This presentation offers a systematic analysis of the emerging routes by which applications of embodied artificial intelligence—robotics—elicit public policy responses. It develops a typology that classifies robotics applications according to how they interact with individual humans, large-scale human populations, and specific physical settings; and whether the robots operate alone, in swarms, or in integrated cyberenvironments. Each case interacts with public policymaking processes in different ways, spanning tort liability law, regulatory codes and standards, and policies for assessing and managing risk. Clear roles emerge for voluntary standards, international collaboration among governance bodies, professionals cross-trained in robotics and public policy, and institutions that effectively anticipate emerging problems.
Register Here: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/415611
