Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy

Virtual Information Session: Master of City and Regional Planning/Master of City and Regional Studies
2025-02-11 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York) | 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) and Master of City and Regional Studies (MCRS) programs during the Spring 2025 semester. We are excited to share helpful information about the Bloustein School and 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 fall 2025 applications. Work experience is not required of applicants. The application deadline for fall 2025 admission is May 1st.
All sessions will be held virtually via Zoom.

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

Inside the Black Box: Mapping Neighborhood Boundaries in a Muslim Informal Settlement. Case of Jamia Nagar, Delhi, India
2025-02-11 16:00 - 17:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Presented by Zehra Mahdi, Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellow at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and doctoral candidate at the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India. Her doctoral research focuses on neighborhood change in informal settlements in Delhi, India that are predominantly inhabited by the Muslim community and influenced by the presence of anchor institutions.
Muslim spaces in India are often characterized by a socio-spatial bundle of attributes enmeshed in planning informalities. They are frequently viewed through a lens of opaqueness and homogeneity by the State, planners, policy-makers, and other residents. Such a generalization of space leads to stigmatization and uneven distribution of State resources. This talk illustrates the internal heterogeneity and dynamics of socio-spatial organization within Muslim spaces. It examines how residents define their neighborhoods by evoking spatial and non-spatial variables of distinctions, and how their perception and delineation of neighborhoods differ based on their positionality. It then provides a method to reach consensus from multiple, overlapping boundaries to operational neighborhood units. It is an attempt to move beyond the binaries of formal-informal, religious, and ethnic groups as black-box typifications in urban spaces, and to counter map admin-political boundaries ‘from below’ by accounting for residents’ sensibilities, agency, and consensus.

POSTPONED Rutgers University Winter Career and Internship Fair
2025-02-12, 2025-02-13, 2025-02-14 | Sonny Werblin Recreation Center, 656 Bartholomew Road, Piscataway, 08854, United States
After careful consideration due to forecasted weather conditions, the Office of Career Exploration and Success (CES) has made the difficult decision to postpone the in-person Winter Career & Internship Mega Fair scheduled for February 11 – 14 at Sonny Werblin Recreation Center. While the weather forecast may change, due to our employer participants’ travel arrangements, and to ensure the safety of those scheduled to attend, we must make this decision in advance.
In place of the in-person fair, we are working to move the event to a virtual format on a future date, allowing students to connect with employers remotely.
Thank you for your understanding and flexibility during this time, and we look forward to sharing more details about the virtual fair. For the most up-to-date information, please visit our website.

A Talk with Dr. Brian Bridges, NJ Secretary of Higher Education
2025-02-12 09:30 - 11:30 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
The New Jersey State Policy Lab will be hosting a talk and Q&A with Dr. Brian Bridges, the Secretary of Higher Education for the state of New Jersey.
During this event, Dr. Bridges will discuss trends in higher education’s affordability, accessibility, and attainment in the Garden State, as well as challenges confronting assorted stakeholders. The event will include a continental breakfast, and there will be opportunities for networking before and after the seminar.
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2025 Bloustein Alumni Awards Celebration
2025-02-12 18:00 - 21:00 | Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Since 1994, the Bloustein School Alumni Association has aimed to present awards to accomplished alumni each year. Our goal is to pay tribute to alumni and friends to recognize their outstanding achievement and/or service to the Bloustein School, their communities, and/or their professions. Alumni are recognized by the Bloustein School Alumni Association in the following two categories: Career Achievement and Rising Star. In 2025, we have also added a new award for retired faculty, to honor extraordinary dedication and lasting contributions, celebrating the distinguished careers of those who have shaped the minds of countless students, made significant research contributions to their field, and long-standing service to Bloustein and the Rutgers academic community at large.

PARKING REGISTRATION REQUIRED: All non-Rutgers guests must register to park on campus. Please use this link for special event parking permission in Lots 1, 11 & 16. This parking is for the Bloustein Alumni Awards Celebration ONLY. A confirmation email will be sent to the email address provided on the form.

Bloustein Research Seminar Series: Kathe Newman
2025-02-13 16:00 - 17:15 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Presented by Professor Kathe Newman
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.

Career Services: What's It Like to Have a Career in Transportation?
2025-02-13 16:30 - 17:45 | Virtual
Join us for Careers in Transportation, an online panel taking place this Thursday, February 13th from 4:30 pm – 5:45 pm featuring five dynamic Bloustein Alumni

Gretchen Minneman Kostura (MCRP 2007) , AVP, Commercial Strategy for NEC and Long-Distance Service Lines Amtrak
Dan Schned (MCRP 2010) – Head of Project Development, U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Build America Bureau;
Kelly Yemen (MCRP 2007) – Director, Office of Multimodal Planning, The City of Philadelphia;
Yatharth Saxena (MCRP 2021) – Transportation Planner, Jacobs
Luis R. Gonzalez (MCRP 2017) – Policy Advisor, NYC Department Of Transportation (DOT)

Brought to you by BEAT (Bloustein Enthusiasts and Advocates for Transportation) and Bloustein Career Services.

RSVP HERE

Virtual Career Drop-ins
2025-02-17 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-02-24 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-03 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-10 11:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Stop by virtually on Mondays (except for holidays) beginning February 3 through April 28 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

Bloustein Research Seminar Series: Matt Mleczko
2025-02-17 16:00 - 17:15 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Presented by Matt Mleczko
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.

Virtual Information Session: Graduate Program in Public Policy
2025-02-18 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
You are cordially invited to join us at one of our spring 2025 virtual information sessions for our Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree and Master of Public Affairs and Politics (MPAP) executive master’s degree for mid-career professionals as well as our Graduate Certificate in Public Policy. Learn more about the academic curricula of these programs, how to apply, career services support for students, merit-based funding awards, etc. The GRE is NOT required for all applications. We are now accepting applications for fall 2025. The application deadline for international students is April 1st and August 1st for domestic applicants.

The Zoom link for the info sessions will be emailed out to those who have RSVP’d closer to the event. Please note that all start times listed below are in EST / New Jersey local time. If you plan to join this session from a different time zone or a different country, we ask that you please make sure to note the CORRECT local time at YOUR location for this information session.

We look forward to seeing you at one of our info sessions this semester.

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

iJOBS Seminar: Advice for International Students from an Immigration Attorney
2025-02-19 11:30 - 13:00 | Virtual
If you are an international student or postdoc and are wondering how to apply for jobs in the US, join us to hear immigration attorney Michael Goldstein for a presentation about applying for H-1B visas, green cards, OPT and J1 visas as well as answer general questions about the processes.
Hosted by the Rutgers School of Graduate Studies

Geography Speaker Series: Centering Justice in Academic-Community Partnerships for Climate and Environmental Justice
2025-02-19 12:00 - 13:30 | Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901
Please consider attending the upcoming talk by Ana Baptista, Associate Professor of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management & Director of the Tishman Environment and Design Center at the New School.
In person or join via zoom.
Hosted by MACH (Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub) and co-sponsored by Geography and Human Ecology
Ana Baptista biographical details: https://www.newschool.edu/milano/faculty/ana-baptista/

Virtual Information Session: Master of Health Administration
2025-02-20 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
You are invited to join us at one our upcoming spring 25 virtual informational sessions to learn more about the Master of Health Administration (MHA) degree offered by the Bloustein School at Rutgers University. We are excited to share helpful information about the MHA curriculum and answer any questions you may have regarding admissions, applications, scholarships, career opportunities in the field, curriculum, etc. Program faculty and staff will be on hand to answer all your questions.

Applications to the MHA program do NOT require the GREs. The application deadline for fall / September 2025 admission is July 1st for domestic applicants and April 1st for international applicants. The application for spring 2025 / January 2026 admission is November 1st.
All sessions will be held virtually via Zoom and will last approximately 1 hour. The event Zoom link will be sent via email, closer to the event, to those who RSVP.

Please note that all times listed are EST / New Jersey local time. If you plan to join this session from a different time zone or a different country, we ask that you please make sure to note the CORRECT local time at YOUR location for this information session.

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

Success by Design: Building Your Personal Brand with Rich Bruno
2025-02-20 16:30 - 17:30 | Virtual
Building your “personal brand” is about how you show up each and every day! Your “personal brand” is what uniquely identifies you…the strengths, values, passions, and endearing qualities that you have.
Discussions & Insights:
– Personal development tips for individual and professional success
– Creating inspiring goal-setting frameworks
– How networking and building relationships is a “game-changer”
– Utilizing the power of the “Giver’s Mindset” to build a lasting impact and creating your legacy

RSVP HERE

MHA Faculty Panel for Early Careerists
2025-02-20 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual
Rutgers Graduate Society for Healthcare Leaders presents a dicussion featuring current Bloustein instructors including Bryan Knode, MBA, MBB, Senior Director, Strategy Development, PDS Health; Jagpreet Sant, MHA, Managerial Consultant, Kaiser Permanente; and Sunil Joshi, MBA, Strategic Advisor, Technology Development Fund, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. They will be sharing their stories from college to career, and offering advice to students on how to prepare for their own successful careers.
RSVP HERE

Historic Preservation and Development Walking Tour: East Jersey Old Town Village and Cornelius Low House
2025-02-23 12:00 - 14:15 | East Jersey Old Towne, 1050 River Road, Piscataway, United States
RSVP HERE
Members of the Bloustein School community and their friends, significant others, spouses, parents/grandparents, and children are invited to a historic preservation and development walking tour in Piscataway, NJ at East Jersey Old Town Village and Cornelius Low House on Sunday, March 3, 2024, from 1:00 p.m. until approximately 3:15 p.m.
Participants must provide their own transportation to these sites. This is a free, custom tour offered to members of the Bloustein School community led by Mark Nonesteid of the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission. The Commission operates both sites.
The tour will start promptly at 12:00 p.m. in the parking lot at East Jersey Old Town Village. The village tour will last approximately 1 hour. Participants will then drive to the Cornelius Low House for the tour starting at 2:15 p.m. This tour will also last approximately 1 hour.
12:00 p.m.: Meet in Parking Lot of East Jersey Old Town Village
1050 River Road, Piscataway, NJ (732-745-3030)
1:00 p.m.: Meet at Cornelius Low House (tour begins at 1:15 p.m.)
1225 River Road, Piscataway, NJ (732-745-4177)
Participants are encouraged to review these informational links before the tour:

East Jersey Olde Town Village

East Jersey Old Town Village is accessible to wheelchair users. Please call 732-745-3030 for further information or questions about accommodations you would need in order to visit the Village.

Indian Queen Tavern at East Jersey Olde Towne Village
Cornelius Low House
Information on archaeology work that was conducted in New Brunswick. Many of these artifacts are on display. This is a good example of archaeology work conducted through a Section 106 review process with the New Jersey State Historic Preservation Office.

Driving Directions to East Jersey Old Town Village, 1050 River Road, Piscataway, NJ – (732) 745-3030
Directions to the Cornelius Low House, 1225 River Road Piscataway, NJ – (732) 745-4177
Questions? Contact David Listokin.

Public Policy Listening Session
2025-02-26 16:15 - 17:45 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
The Public Policy Listening Session 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 Julia Sass Rubin, Public Policy Program Director; Iman Basit, VP of Public Policy Program for Bloustein Graduate Student Association; Courtney Culler, Associate Director for Graduate Student Services; and Greg Marrero, Student Counselor for Graduate Student Services.
IN PERSON in CSB Room 261 or via Zoom.
RSVP HERE

Rutgers University Winter Career and Internship Fair: Technology, Engineering, Healthcare, and Green-Related Positions
2025-02-27 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-02-28 11:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
RESCHEDULED & MOVED TO VIRTUAL DUE TO WEATHER
The fair will be hosted virtually on Handshake on February 27th and 28th

The in-person Career & Internship Fair has been rescheduled, and will be hosted virtually through Handshake on February 27 & 28, 2025
Hosted by the Rutgers University Office of Career Exploration and Success, an anticipated diverse group of employers will be available to network with Rutgers University student & alumni candidates to discuss full-time, part-time, and internship opportunities in various fields. This event is open to Rutgers University students and alumni with Handshake access, from all academic disciplines.

Candidate & Employer Registration: (Feb. 27) Technology, Engineering, Healthcare, and Green-Related Positions

Candidate & Employer Registration: (Feb. 28) Business, Communications, Education & Service-Related Positions

Bloustein Research Seminar Series: Peter Hepburn
2025-02-27 16:00 - 17:15 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Presented by Peter Hepburn
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.

Spring Health Administration Virtual Meet and Greet / Career Fair
2025-02-27 16:30 - 18:30 | Virtual
Join us in a virtual meet and greet / career fair where you will be able to meet and network with alumni / employers in small groups within break out rooms.
Introduce yourself and hear about what these alumni / employers do in health administration and learn about the available internship and job opportunities!
Video sharing is required.
Zoom RSVP

Employers registered to attend:

Atlantic Health System
Hackensack Meridian Health
IQVIA
Johnson & Johnson
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Webinar: Then and Now
2025-03-05 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
Researchers, policymakers, and practitioners are invited to join authors Nyerere Hodge, Stuart Andreason, Ph.D., and Carl Van Horn, Ph.D., as they discuss their analysis of the 21st century labor market featured in the three-part series Then and Now.
The webinar was held on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. (ET). It covered measures of economic mobility and resilience such as earnings and education gaps, student loans, medical insurance, and retirement benefits with an eye toward informing strategies to improve economic mobility.
WATCH THE RECORDED WEBINAR
Nyerere Hodge is a Policy Specialist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; Stuart Andreason, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of Programs at the Burning Glass Institute; and Carl Van Horn, Ph.D. is Director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development and Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Check out the Then and Now series:

Then and Now: Key Trends and Transformations in the 21st Century Labor Market
Then and Now: The Evolution of Key Worker Support Systems in the 21st Century
Then and Now: The Changing Landscape of Education Outcomes and Funding in the 21st Century

The webinar is hosted by the Heldrich Center in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the Burning Glass Institute. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta or the Federal Reserve System.

Rutgers Health Management Perspectives: Investing in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis
2025-03-05 16:00 - 17:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Please join us for the Rutgers Health Management Perspectives Lecture Series at the Bloustein School, created to bring leading voices in health management and policy to engage with our Rutgers community. This event will be presented by Janet Currie, PhD, Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University; Immediate Past President, American Economic Association, 2024.

She will be discussing, “Investing in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis.”

Janet Currie is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the co-director of the Program on Families and Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Currie is a pioneer in the economic analysis of child development. Her current research focuses on socioeconomic differences in health, environmental threats to health, child mental health, and the long-run impact of child health. She has presented her work at universities around the world and in venues ranging from the White House to the European Investment Bank. She holds honorary degrees from the University of Lyon, the University of Zurich, and the Università della Svizzera Italiana and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Art and Sciences, and the British Academy. She was the 2024 President of the American Economic Association. She is a distinguished CES Fellow, and a fellow of the Econometric Society, the Society of Labor Economists, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She was chosen as a NOMIS Distinguished Scientist in 2019 and won the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize in 2023. She was named one of the top 10 women in Economics by the World Economic Forum in 2015. Currie has served on the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science, as the Editor of the Journal of Economic Literature, and on the editorial boards of many other journals.

This is an in-person event but you may also attend via Zoom by registering at go.rutgers.edu/rutgershmplecture.

Spring 2025 Virtual Career Fair/Meet & Greet
2025-03-07 10:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
For Urban Planning, Public Informatics, and Public Policy graduate and undergraduate students.
Engage with Bloustein alumni and employer partners who are seeking interns or full time employees now or in the future. Learn more about their careers and organizations in which they represent. This is a terrific VIRTUAL networking opportunity.
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Bloustein Research Seminar Series: Danielle Falzon
2025-03-10 16:00 - 17:15 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Presented by Danielle Falzon
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.
