Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy

Success by Design: Building Your Personal Brand with Rich Bruno
2025-02-20 16:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | 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

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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.
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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
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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.

Virtual Career Drop-ins
2025-02-24 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-03 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-10 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-24 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-31 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

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.
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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.

People, Policy, Planning, Place and Product: Lessons from a City Planner
2025-03-11 16:00 - 17:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
ANNUAL DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION AND BELONGING LECTURE
Presented by Christopher A. Watson, M.Sc., Ph.D.[c] Director of Planning and Development Services, Murphy Schiller & Wilkes LLP
Planning as a tool is ideally to organize the physical environment to effectuate the life course of residents, so that they can be triangled with the resources needed to live successful life courses. Often, whoever gets to make the decision as to how space is organize determines the outcome for those residents, enveloped in those planned areas. To better provide the support residents need to advance themselves, personal agency aside, planners must be able to be the best translators of residents’ voices within planning principles that forward an agenda that is inclusive of community voice. Without this key understanding in practice, space is disorganized, and the evolution of society is stymied by confusion.
This conversation will explore these themes and will allow us as planners to have an honest conversation as to what our mandates are, how we practice these mandates, and how we come together to organize space around who we are planning for. Planning for people should include their voices, and this lecture is to provoke a conversation as to how we get to this realization in our practices.

Giving Day Celebration - College Avenue Campus
2025-03-12 11:00 - 15:00 | College Avenue Student Center, 126 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Join us at the College Avenue Student Center for coffee and giveaways!
https://rutgersfoundation.org/give/ways-give/rutgers-giving-days

Urban Planning Listening Session
2025-03-12 16:15 - 17:15 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
The Urban Planning 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 Mi Shih, Urban Planning Program Director; Courtney Culler, Associate Director for Graduate Student Services; and Greg Marrero, Student Counselor for Graduate Student Services.
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Cultural Heritage Now: Evidence and Evaluation: Understanding What Cultural Heritage Projects Achieve"
2025-03-12 17:30 - 18:30 | Virtual
Presented by Dr. Paul Burtenshaw, Senior Director of Project Impact at World Monuments Fund

There is an increasing need within cultural heritage to provide evidence for project impact. This need has several sources, from the evolving requirements of sustainable and international development practice, changes in impact philanthropy, desire for justifying public budgets and from cultural heritage itself wishing to demonstrate its applicability to wider social agendas. This lecture will discuss these sources and how we can develop appropriate monitoring and evaluation systems and tools, including current work at World Monuments Fund.

Dr Paul Burtenshaw is the Senior Director of Project Impact at World Monuments Fund. Paul completed his PhD at University College London into the performance and politics of cultural heritage as an economic asset. He was previously the Director of Projects at Sustainable Preservation Initiative and has been a freelance consultant for projects involving heritage economics, tourism, and how cultural heritage supports sustainable and community development.

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For more information: chaps.rutgers.edu

Giving Day Celebration - Livingston and Douglass Campuses
2025-03-13 11:00 - 15:00 | College Avenue Student Center, 126 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Join us at the Livingston and Douglass for coffee and giveaways!
https://rutgersfoundation.org/give/ways-give/rutgers-giving-days

17th Annual Krueckeberg Doctoral Conference in Urban Studies, Urban Planning, and Public Policy
2025-03-14 08:00 - 17:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
The Bloustein School will present the 17th Annual Krueckeberg Doctoral Conference in Urban Studies, Urban Planning, and Public Policy on Friday, March 14, 2025. The conference is organized by doctoral students for doctoral students engaged in urban planning, urban studies, health, and policy-related research across disciplines and universities in the tri-state NJ-NY-PA metropolitan region. Named after Professor Donald A. Krueckeberg, the conference commemorates Don Krueckeberg’s long-running commitment to doctoral education by providing a one-day forum highlighting doctoral student research at the cutting edge of urban studies, planning, and public policy.
Conference Registration: https://forms.gle/rWAx3cMnqyTVtZ5S8
Conference Agenda
Doctoral students at any stage of dissertation research are invited and encouraged to present their work at the conference. First-year doctoral students are invited to participate to try out a topic, and advanced candidates may present sections of research or a finished dissertation, or anywhere in between. Past presentations have outlined tentative research topics, surveyed literature, reported interim findings, and overviewed completed dissertations. The conference aims to encourage questions, comments, and discussions during each session.
A well-known and respected scholar in the planning profession, Professor Krueckeberg’s special interests and contributions were in the areas of planning history, property theory, and land use policy. His books, Introduction to Planning History in the United States, The American Planner: Biographies and Recollections, and Urban Planning Analysis, still serve as important references for scholars and professionals in planning and public policy.
As a major contributor to urban planning and policy studies, the Bloustein School’s Krueckeberg Conference showcases some of the most unique and forward-thinking research in the discipline. Past conferences have included doctoral candidates in urban studies, urban planning and public policy from Columbia University, The New School, the University of Pennsylvania, and more.

Operationalizing Equity: Keynote of Kruekeberg Doctoral Conference
2025-03-14 13:00 - 14:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Reference to “equity” in planning is rather ubiquitous, for good reason. However, moving conceptual terms from theory to practice often belies just intentions in even the best plans and processes of implementation of urban development. In this lecture, Dr. Carolini will discuss the challenges and opportunities of moving beyond equity as a norm and consider its transition in both scholarship and practice–however complicated. While planners have long leaned on participatory decision-making strategies to ensure procedural equities and advance justice in urban planning and development, here she will draw attention to examples of how planners can also foreground epistemic and distributive equities at the local level. To this end, she will discuss project-level considerations of the quality of learning and knowledge production and the criticality of spatialized accounts of fairness in making legible the distribution of a project or program’s material benefits. She will leverage her research from across the Americas and Africa to argue that operationalizing equity can be more straightforward than it sounds. However, this requires a reframing of ex-ante and ex-post evaluative frameworks to incorporate procedural, distributive, and epistemic equities in projects and programs that can move us closer toward that which ought to be in cities.
Gabriella Carolini is an associate professor of urban planning and international development in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) at MIT, where she leads the City Infrastructure Equity Lab (CIEL). Her research and teaching are centered on providing a grounded critical analysis of how the governance of infrastructure development—including its financial architecture, implementation practices, and evaluation—shapes the distributional fairness of infrastructure benefits, particularly for and with marginalized communities.
Conference Registration: https://forms.gle/rWAx3cMnqyTVtZ5S8

NJ Climate Change Resource Center Conference: Sustaining Innovation in New Jersey Climate Policy - Past, Present and Future
2025-03-21 08:00 - 17:00 | Livingston Student Center, 84 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ, 08854
Join us for a day-long dialogue regarding New Jersey’s state climate policies, where New Jersey has to go to reach its climate goals, challenges to reaching those goals, lessons we can learn from others, and opportunities that we might explore with leading local and national experts.
REGISTER HERE
8:00 AM: Registration, Breakfast, and Networking
8:30 AM: Plenary Sessions Begin
Programming Continues Until 5:00 PM
EVENT WEBSITE
Registration ends at 5:00 PM EDT on March 17, 2025.

Public Informatics Listening Session
2025-03-24 16:00 - 17:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
The Public Informatics 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 Jim Samuel, Public Informatics Program Director; Zarak Khan, VP of Public Informatics Program for Bloustein Graduate Student Association; Courtney Culler, Associate Director for Graduate Student Services; and Greg Marrero, Student Counselor for Graduate Student Services.
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Careers in Public Informatics/Data Analytics Panel
2025-03-26 16:30 - 17:45 | Virtual
Joining us will be alumni working in consulting, non-profit/public, and private sectors who will share their journeys from student to professional in the data analytics space.

Meet our alumni panelists:
Rajisha Shah, Data Analytics Specialist at IQVIA
Yingchen Zhen, Product Analystat Pandora/SiriusXM
Raj Parikh, Transit Analyst at the Michiana Area Council of Governments (MACOG), and
Ayunthi Gunawardana, now a Senior Data Analyst at 1-800-FLOWERS.COM (former Project Analyst at NYDOT)
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SAS Scarlet Speakers: From the Heart of New Brunswick with Jim Hughes
2025-03-27 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Jim Hughes ENG’65, GSNB’69’71
University Professor, Dean Emeritus, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
“Rutgers Then and Now: Two Centuries of Physical Campus Development”
How did the campus and buildings of Rutgers today come to be?
This talk explores the evolution of the College Avenue Campus, the historic core of Rutgers University, tracing its journey from the construction of Old Queens in 1809 to today. Through over 380 images, we examine ten phases of development, highlighting changes in buildings, grounds, and layouts. Featuring over 65 iconic structures, we’ll detail how these buildings originally appeared versus their current state.
This is a virtual event hosted on Zoom. RSVP HERE
To purchase Rutgers Then and Now: Two Centuries of Campus Development: A Historic and Photographic Odyssey please click here.

Women's Leadership Meet & Greet
2025-03-27 16:30 - 18:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
In honor of Women’s History Month, we are organizing a special career event aligned with this year’s national theme: “Moving Forward Together! Women Educating & Inspiring Generations.”
We (a group of fellow students representing the MCRP, MPP, MPI, and MHA programs), in partnership with Bloustein’s Career Office, are excited to host a networking and panel session designed to connect students with accomplished alumni and community leaders who have inspired others and made meaningful contributions in their fields.
Join change-makers, Sabeen Masih, Capital Impact Group https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabeen-masih-494b2456/; Alexandra Doll, Robert Wood Johnson, Somerset https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandradoll/ and A’dorian Murray Thomas, Founder and CEO of SHE Wins, Inc. https://www.linkedin.com/in/adorianmt/
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Student Workshop: Talking Across Difference
2025-03-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Eagleton Institute of Politics, 191 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, 08901, United States
In this workshop, Eagleton Director Dr. Elizabeth Matto will be joined by Bloustein School Dean Stuart Shapiro in a discussion about American politics today, why it matters, and how you can get involved. Advanced registration is required, and dinner will be served — so reserve your spot today!
Open to current Rutgers students. Participants must register in advance. Dinner will be served.
This Talking Across Difference conversation will be moderated by Rutgers faculty and is co-sponsored by the Rutgers Democracy Lab, the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and the Rutgers New Brunswick Political Science Department.
Registration Required.
