Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy

SCA Health Administrative Fellowship Information Session
2024-09-11 16:45 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Bloustein School Career Services, Rutgers Graduate Society of Healthcare Leaders, and SCA Health are sponsoring an administrative fellowship information session. Please join Emma-Louise Austin-Datta, SCA Health Operations Manager and former Administrative Resident and alumna Allie Chu MHA ’23 in a discussion of SCA Health’s Administrative Residency (Fellowship).
RSVP at https://forms.office.com/r/PUiwJxy8iw

Graduate Student Welcome Reception & Resource Fair
2024-09-12 15:00 - 18:00 | Busch Student Center Multipurpose Room, 604 Bartholomew Rd, Piscataway, 08854, United States
Enjoy food, networking, and meeting graduate student organizations and university departments that provide academic and support services from across the university. All graduate students welcome.
RSVP at https://go.rutgers.edu/welcomeRSVP

MHA Alumni Administrative Fellows Panel
2024-09-12 16:30 - 18:00 | Virtual
Get answers from those who have been there. Discover why and how administrative fellowships accelerate professional development and career growth
All things considered:

The application process / the timeline
The essay and personal statement
The interview process
Prep and follow-up
The match
Location and organization (mission, vision, values)
Type of fellowship, rotational / project based

Moderated by Professor Ceu Cirne-Neves

Virtual Information Session: Master of City and Regional Planning
2024-09-12 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual
You are cordially invited to join us at this virtual informational session for the Rutgers – Bloustein School’s Master of City and Regional Planning (MCRP) program during the Fall 2024 semester. We are excited to share helpful information about the Bloustein School, the MCRP program, and answer any questions you may have regarding admissions, applications, career opportunities in the field and the curriculum. Program faculty and staff will be on hand to answer all your questions. Each session will last approximately 1 hour.

The GRE has been WAIVED for all 2025 applications. Work experience is not required of applicants. The application deadline for spring 2025 admission is November 1st. The application deadline for fall 2025 admission WITH consideration for academic scholarship and fellowship funding is January 15th.
All sessions will be held virtually via Zoom.

RSVP required at: https://go.rutgers.edu/ejbmcrpinfo

Virtual Information Session: Master of Health Administration
2024-09-13 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
You are cordially invited to join us at this virtual informational session for the Rutgers – Bloustein School’s Master of Health Administration (MHA) program during the Fall 2024 semester. We are excited to share helpful information about the Bloustein School, the residential Master of Health Administration program (MHA), and answer any questions you may have regarding admissions, applications, career opportunities in the field and the curriculum. Program faculty and staff will be on hand to answer all your questions.

Applications to the RMHA program do NOT require the GREs. Work experience is not required of applicants. The application deadline for fall / September 2025 admission is July 1st. The application for spring 2025 / January 2025 admission is November 1st.

All sessions will be held virtually via Zoom.

RSVP required at https://go.rutgers.edu/ejbmhainfo

Virtual Career Drop-ins
2024-09-16 11:00 - 13:00, 2024-09-23 11:00 - 13:00, 2024-09-30 11:00 - 13:00, 2024-10-07 11:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Stop by virtually on Mondays (except for holidays) beginning September 9th through December 16th between 11 am and 1 pm to ask a quick (15 min) career-related question of Bloustein Career Development Specialists Cheryl Egan and Andrea Garrido.
URL: https://go.rutgers.edu/EJBcareerdropin

Virtual Information Session: Graduate Program in Public Informatics
2024-09-17 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
You are cordially invited to join us at this virtual informational session for the – Bloustein School’s fall 2024 virtual information sessions for our Master of Public Informatics (MPI) degree and our Graduate Certificate in Urban and Public Informatics. Learn more the curriculum for our master’s degree and graduate certificate, how to apply, career services support for students and scholarship opportunities.
The GRE is WAIVED for all 2025 applications. Work experience is not required for applications to the program. The application deadline for spring 2025 admission is November 1st. The application deadline for fall 2025 admission with academic scholarship consideration is January 15th. The MPI is a STEM-designated master’s program.
All sessions will be held virtually via Zoom.
RSVP required at https://go.rutgers.edu/ejbmpiinfo

Undergraduate Research Discovery Session: Public Health and Public Policy
2024-09-17 11:00 - 12:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Dr. Jane Miller will present information about the Bloustein Honors Research Program (BHRP) and independent study options available. Dr. Liz Cooner, Director of the NJ State Policy Lab, will be joining the session as a presenter to discuss research opportunities and the summer internship program at the lab.

Indiana University Health Administrative Fellowship Information Session
2024-09-17 16:30 - 18:00 | Virtual
Bloustein School Career Services, Rutgers Graduate Society of Healthcare Leaders, and Indiana University Health are sponsoring an administrative fellowship information session. Please join current Indiana University Health Administrative Fellows Anne Bowen, Max Frausto, Kendall Ranges, and Bryce Showers in a discussion about IU Health, the fellowship, and the application process.
RSVP at https://go.rutgers.edu/IUHealthAdminFellowInfoSession

Ph.D. Colloquium: What Makes for a Successful Doctoral Student
2024-09-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Presented by Professor Robert Noland

Bildner Center: Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum
2024-09-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
Jeffrey Shandler, Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University, will discuss his new book, Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum (Indiana University Press, 2024). Shandler tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum to commemorate the Jewish cultures of Eastern Europe destroyed during the Holocaust. Newly arrived in the United States, this small group of Polish Jews had devoted their professional lives to the study of Europe’s Yiddish-speaking Jews at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Faced with the devastating knowledge that returning to their former homes and resuming their scholarly work there was no longer viable, they sought to address their profound sense of loss by continuing their work, under radically different circumstances, to document the European Jewish lives, places, and ways of living that were being destroyed.
Homes of the Past explores this largely unknown episode of modern Jewish history and museum history and demonstrates that the project, even though it was never realized, marked a critical inflection point in the dynamic interrelations between Jews in America and Eastern Europe.
Supported by the Sagner Family Foundation
RSVP at https://bildnercenter.rutgers.edu/events/upcoming-events/icalrepeat.detail/2024/09/18/142/-/homes-of-the-past-a-lost-jewish-museum

Bloustein Research Seminar Series: Why is it so hard to do qualitative research in transportation?
2024-09-18 16:00 - 17:15 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Presented by Mike Smart, Ph.D, Bloustein School Associate Professor
This venue will enable our faculty to share research, build community, and extend our networks. Pizza will be served. Bloustein faculty, advanced PhD students, and external speakers will present research talks. The seminar series is open to the entire Bloustein community.

Constitution Day 2024: Aspirational Activism & Public Service For a ‘More Perfect Union’
2024-09-18 18:00 - 20:00 | Livingston Student Center, 84 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ, 08854
The Eagleton Institute’s Center for Youth Political Participation will host a panel of young adult activists and public servants as they share their stories of civic engagement with the hopes of inspiring others to create a ‘more perfect union’. Panelists include:

Mayor Jason Cilento, Dunellen, New Jersey
Solcrye Burga Granda, Reporter, Time Magazine
Chloe Desir, Environmental Justice Organizer, Ironbound Community Corporation

The event will be followed by a networking reception. Light refreshments will be served.
Open to Rutgers University students and the general public.
RSVP at https://eagleton.rutgers.edu/event/constitutionday2024/

Polling 2024: Expert Analysis on Election Polling & the State of the Race
2024-09-24 19:00 - 20:00 | Virtual
The Eagleton Institute of Politics is pleased to invite you to their inaugural event in the series “Navigating the 2024 Election and Beyond.”
Join a panel of expert pollsters for a comprehensive analysis of national polling trends in the lead up to the November 2024 election. This webinar will provide invaluable insights into the way experts interpret pre-election polls and will offer insights into a range of national and state-level polling data.
RSVP at https://eagleton.rutgers.edu/event/polling-2024-expert-analysis-on-election-polling-and-the-state-of-the-race/

Bildner Center: Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy
2024-09-24 19:30 - 20:30 | Douglass Student Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
The Raoul Wallenberg Annual Program, funded by Leon and Toby Cooperman
Jonathan Marc Gribetz, Professor of Near Eastern studies and Judaic studies at Princeton University, will speak about his new book on the history of the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center, from its establishment in 1965 until its expulsion from Lebanon in 1983. Gribetz examines why the PLO invested in research about Judaism and Zionism and how the knowledge it acquired informed the PLO’s relationship to Israel.
RSVP at https://bildnercenter.rutgers.edu/events/upcoming-events/icalrepeat.detail/2024/09/24/136/-/reading-herzl-in-beirut-the-plo-effort-to-know-the-enemy

Ph.D. Colloquium: How I Made a Community - Doctoral Studies and Beyond
2024-09-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Presented by Professor Kelcie Ralph

Virtual Information Session: Graduate Program in Public Policy
2024-09-26 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
You are cordially invited to join us at this virtual informational session for Rutgers Bloustein School’s Master of Public Policy (MPP), Master of Public Affairs and Politics (MPAP), and Graduate Certificate in Public Policy. Learn more about the curriculum for our master’s degrees in public policy, as well as our graduate certificate, how to apply, career services support for students, and scholarship opportunities.
The GRE is WAIVED for all 2025 applications. The application deadline for spring 2025 admission is November 1st. The application deadline for fall 2025 admission with academic scholarship consideration is January 15th.
All sessions will be held virtually via Zoom.
RSVP required at https://go.rutgers.edu/ejbppinfo

Bloustein Research Seminar Series: How have New Jersey's primary ballots enabled political machines to control the state?
2024-09-26 16:00 - 17:15 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Presented by Julia Sass Rubin, Ph.D, MBA Bloustein School Associate Professor
This venue will enable our faculty to share research, build community, and extend our networks. Pizza will be served. Bloustein faculty, advanced PhD students, and external speakers will present research talks. The seminar series is open to the entire Bloustein community.

Rutgers Robotics Workshop 2024
2024-09-27 09:00 - 16:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
The workshop is held annually as part of the NSF National Research Traineeship SOCRATES (Socially Cognizant Robotics for a Technology Enhanced Society) at Rutgers.
This annual robotics workshop is held for faculty, students, and industry representatives. The workshop will have both internal and external speakers as well as a poster session for students to present their robotics research. The workshop panels will discuss RobotGPT: current trends and future directions in robotics foundation model and unintended consequences of robotics foundation models.
AGENDA AND RSVP

Bloustein School Undergraduate Open House
2024-09-28 10:00 - 14:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
The Undergraduate Open House is a great opportunity for prospective students to learn about the Bloustein School, our undergraduate academic programs, admissions criteria, and the Rutgers-Bloustein School student experience. There will also be a tour of the school. Join us if you aspire to be a changemaker!
RSVP at go.rutgers.edu/EJBUOH24

Dissertation Proposal: The Tenuous Rise of Transportation Justice, Since the 2010's
2024-09-30 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual
presented by Angela Johnson-Rodriguez

Career Services: Meet the Consulting Firms
2024-10-01 16:30 - 17:45 | Virtual
Have you considered working for a consulting firm upon graduation or at some point during your career? Join us for this exclusive virtual event where we will be spotlighting a handful of consulting firms who will talk about their organizations and opportunities, perfect for Bloustein students. Ask questions and meet with representatives!
RSVP at https://go.rutgers.edu/MeetTheConsultingFirms

Ph.D. Colloquium: Working on Fast-Moving Policy Topics
2024-10-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Presented by Professor Julia Sass Rubin

Walk with GirlTrek
2024-10-03 16:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-04 08:30 - 09:30 | Douglass Student Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
We have been waiting for you! Yes – you!
GirlTREK is the largest health movement for Black women and girls and we seek to inspire women across college campuses to walk as an act of Joy & Justice. We are excited to have you join us as we walk in sisterhood for better health. With each step forward we are changing the trajectory of the health of Black women.
GirlTREK’s collaboration with Rutgers University is expected to get young women walking to better health across your college campus. We can not wait to have you join 1.2 million women across the world walking to save their lives’. We hope that you take the radical step towards a healthier future with GirlTREK today!
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We will be hosting 2 walks in October. Please see the dates and times below for each walk:
– Thursday, October 3rd from 4-5pm – begin at front entrance of Douglass Student Center
– Friday, October 4th from 8:30-9:30am – begin at front entrance of Douglass Student Center
RSVP HERE
We’d love to stay in touch with you! Please feel free to reach out to our National College Campus Recruiter if you have questions. Feel free to email us at nyra@girltrek.org.

Ph.D. Colloquium: Writing, Fast and Slow
2024-10-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Presented by Professor Michael Smart

Bildner Center: One Year after October 7: A Conversation with Miriam Herschlag
2024-10-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
The Ruth and Alvin Rockoff Annual Lecture
Join a discussion between Miriam Herschlag, opinion and blogs editor for The Times of Israel, and Nancy Sinkoff, the Bildner Center’s academic director, one year after the October 7 attack on Israel. Raised in New Jersey, Herschlag has been based in Tel Aviv for decades, working as a writer, editor, and broadcaster. Known for her keen observations of Israeli politics and society, she is widely respected for her expertise on the latest ideas about Israel and Jewish life.
RSVP at https://bildnercenter.rutgers.edu/events/upcoming-events/icalrepeat.detail/2024/10/09/137/-/one-year-after-october-7-a-conversation-with-miriam-herschlag
