Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy

Undergraduate Prospective Student Information Sessions (PSIS)
2023-11-30 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | 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 at https://go.rutgers.edu/EJBfall23ugprospect-events

CAREERS: Virtual Career Drop-In
2023-12-04 11:00 - 13:00, 2023-12-11 11:00 - 13:00, 2023-12-18 11:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Meet with Andrea Garrido or Cheryl Egan for up to 15 minutes to answer any career/internship related question you may have. | To “drop-in”, click on:

Parking Fight! The Stuart Meck Memorial Lecture in Land Use Law and Affordable Housing
2023-12-06 16:30 - 18:00 | Gov. James J. Florio Special Events Forum, CSB, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Presented by Henry Grabar, Journalist and Loeb Fellow, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
In the 2023 Stuart Meck Memorial Lecture in Land Use Law and Affordable Housing, journalist Henry Grabar argues that the pursuit of a perfect parking space is the prime mover of local politics, contemporary architecture, and urban design. He presents his historical research on the “parking problem,” reporting on parking’s role in community decision-making, and explains the environmental disaster that is American parking policy. Finally, he reviews the movement for parking reform, from the pioneering work of Donald Shoup to contemporary policy changes and their results, as activists try to repair the harms of a century- long experiment in planning for parking.
Henry Grabar is a journalist who writes about cities. He’s a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and a staff writer at Slate. His work has also appeared in 99 Percent Invisible, the Atlantic, the Guardian, Harper’s, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He has discussed these subjects on television and radio, and before audiences at New America, the National Press Foundation, and various conferences and classrooms. His most recent book is Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, which was published in May, 2023 by Penguin Press.
RSVP at https://go.rutgers.edu/parkingfight

CAREERS: Job and Internship Search Strategies and Panel Event
2023-12-06 16:30 - 18:00 | Virtual
One of the best ways to learn how to go about the job and internship/AFE search process that many of you are about to embark upon is to hear how your fellow students and recent graduates went about it. Join some of our recent MCRP, MPI, MPP, and MHA graduates and 2nd year graduate students to ask your questions, get advice and support directly from those who have very recently been in your shoes! This event is co-sponsored by BGSA
RSVP: https://go.rutgers.edu/r8v57dzv

Ph.D. Colloquium: Getting your first publication
2023-12-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Presented by Clint Andrews See email for Zoom link!

Keep your enemies close: Adversarial collaborations will improve science
2023-12-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Presented by: Cory Clark, University of Pennsylvania’s Adversarial Collaboration Project
Cory Clark is a Visiting Scholar in the Wharton School and the School of Arts and Sciences at University of Pennsylvania. She and colleagues advocate for adversarial collaborations, a methodological procedure in which disagreeing scholars mutually design research procedures to test their competing hypotheses. This process can facilitate more rigorous science because both proponents and opponents must agree to fair and unbiased tests.
Sponsored by Cooperation Interest Group at Rutgers (CIG@R), a university-wide group of people interested in cooperation and collaboration, involving Individuals from both Rutgers and Arizona State.

CAREERS: LinkedIn Best Practices
2023-12-08 13:00 - 14:30 | Virtual
There’s no doubt that LinkedIn is a MUST have tool for all professionals in all stages of one’s career. Learn more about this powerful tool and professional portfolio in this informative workshop conducted by Andrea Garrido and Cheryl Egan, Bloustein’s in-house career specialists. Topics covered include creating a profile so you can be found by your target audience, incorporating your unique personal brand into your profile, and learning how to use LinkedIn in your job/internship search and to support your networking goals.
RSVP at the link below.

Graduation Ceremony for Korea Development Institute Scholars
2023-12-08 13:00 - 15:00 | Gov. James J. Florio Special Events Forum, CSB, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
The Bloustein School is pleased to present the 23rd annual graduation ceremony in honor of our KDI-EJB Scholars, students in our one-year exchange with the KDI School of Policy and Management in Seoul, Korea. These students will be leaving us at the end of this calendar year to return home with one of our Master of City and Regional Studies (MCRS) or Master of Public Affairs and Politics (MPAP) degrees.
The ceremony will be in-person and is expected to last about a half hour. Lunch will be provided post-event for attendees, including graduates and their families. RSVP is required.

Undergraduate Internship Presentations
2023-12-15 09:00 - 19:00, 2023-12-19 09:00 - 19:00 | Gov. James J. Florio Special Events Forum, CSB, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States

Rutgers Winter Break
2023-12-23, 2023-12-30, 2024-01-06 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States

Virtual Information Session: Graduate Program in Public Informatics
2024-01-10 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
You are cordially invited to join us at this virtual informational session for the – Bloustein School’s spring 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 2024 applications. The application deadline for fall 2024 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/ejbmpiinfo24

Career Services (Graduate) Virtual Orientation
2024-01-11 16:30 - 17:30 | Virtual
Meet Career Management Specialists, Andrea Garrido and Cheryl Egan, to learn more about the career services and resources provided to Bloustein graduate students.
REGISTER HERE

MLK Holiday
2024-01-15 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
All university offices are closed. Spring semester starts the following day.

International Student Resources Information Session
2024-01-19 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
Join your Bloustein student and academic services support staff- Andrea Garrido, Cheryl Egan, Greg Marrero and Courtney Culler – as well as our partner from RU Global – Audrey Nguyen, Bloustein Liaison and International Student Advisor – to learn about the career and internship resources and services available at Bloustein and Rutgers University to support our international students.
Register: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYof-Gsrz4oHtMPaJnpcDt7VPS2l_gUafwt

Career Virtual Drop-ins
2024-01-22 11:00 - 13:00, 2024-01-29 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

NJADAPT: New Tools and Critical Enhancements
2024-01-23 13:00 - 14:30 | Virtual
NJADAPT is a suite of data visualization and mapping tools providing critical support in planning for future climate conditions, assessing climate change related hazards, and communicating risks and hazards. Guided by input from our users, the Rutgers team has thoroughly enhanced NJADAPT with new and updated data, guidance for applying the tools to local planning, and numerous new features including links to municipal land-use, public health, and hazard mitigation planning.
Join Lucas Marxen, Associate Director, NJAES Office of Research Analytics, for an introduction to the latest release of these powerful decision-support tools, and learn how to use them in your own practice. Products to be discussed include:
• New Jersey Public Health Adapt: An online tool for exploring the potential impacts of climate change on public health.
• New Jersey Local Planning Navigator: The first of our guided tools to help municipalities develop Climate Change-Related Hazard Vulnerability Assessments under the NJ Municipal Land Use Law.
• Updates to NJADAPT Tools: Overview of some of the updated datasets and analyses included in our existing NJADAPT tools.
• Hazardous Materials/Substances Commercial Facilities Flood Analysis: A statewide analysis of commercial facilities with hazardous materials/substances that could be impacted by flooding, with correlation to Overburdened Communities.
• Statewide FEMA 100-Year Flood Zone +3ft Data Layer: Upcoming release of a statewide GIS data layer for planning purposes to visualize the FEMA 100-Year Flood Zone plus and additional 3 feet of flooding as specified under the NJDEP’s Inland Flood Rule.
This virtual event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Register at: https://go.rutgers.edu/NJADAPTnewtools

Brownfield Development Area (BDA) Workshop
2024-01-24 09:30 - 12:30 | Virtual
Does your municipality have abandoned or underutilized contaminated properties? Do you have a vision for your blighted brownfield sites? This workshop is open to elected officials and staff of municipal, county, quasi-governments,
and associated consultants.
NJDEP’s Brownfield Development Area (BDA) program is a voluntary partnership between municipalities, stakeholders and the NJDEP Office of Brownfield and Community Revitalization to work closely together to repurpose abandoned or underutilized contaminated “brownfield” properties. The BDA program partners with diverse communities affected by multiple brownfield sites to identify technical and financial resources to help design and implement investigation, remediation, and reuse plans for these properties in a coordinated manner, so blighted brownfield properties can be remediated and redeveloped in a timely manner.
You will learn:

How your municipality would benefit from being designated as a Brownfield Development Area
How other municipalities have benefitted from a BDA designation
The components of the BDA application
How to obtain free technical assistance in transforming your brownfields into community assets

Sponsored by the NJ Department of Environmental Protection and the NJIT TAB Program.
REGISTER HERE

CAREERS: Interviewing Best Practices
2024-01-24 16:30 - 17:30 | Virtual
Join Bloustein Career Development Specialists Cheryl Egan and Andrea Garrido for a one-hour virtual workshop to sharpen your interviewing skills in preparation for upcoming internship and job interviews! We will review behavioral-based interviews and the STAR approach, virtual interviews, other types of interviews to expect as well as how to prepare for these interviews. Tell us if you have specific questions or topics you’d like for us to cover when registering!
Please go to the following link to register:
https://go.rutgers.edu/InterviewingTips

PhD Colloquium: Alan Cander on Teaching
2024-01-25 12:00 - 12:50 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Please check your email from Ph.D. program director Mike Smart for the link to the Zoom.

Lunch & Learn: One Path to AICP
2024-01-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Join APA practice leader Renee’ Kronon-Schertz, Certification Senior Associate and colleagues from the AICP who will hold a live 30-minute presentation and Q&A session for Bloustein students who may have questions related to obtaining AICP Certification. Then for the 2nd half of the program, you will hear from two (2) of our alumni, one who recently went through the AICP exam process and one from the APA-NJ Executive Board. To get the most out of this session, you need to do the following: 1) Watch this One Path to AICP video in advance of the Q&A: https://planning.org/certification/eligible/ 2) Take a look at these links: (https://planning.org/certification/) and the eligibility page (https://planning.org/certification/eligible/). 3) Include your questions in the Zoom registration form for this event.
REGISTER HERE

Rutgers School of Public Health--Consequences of the End of Roe: Lessons from The Turnaway Study
2024-01-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Join University of California, San Francisco’s Professor Diana Greene Foster – a 2023 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow – for “Consequences of the End of Roe: Lessons from The Turnaway Study,” on January 25, 2024.

This webinar is part of the Rutgers School of Public Health’s 21PHirst Signature Series, which is focused on abortion action and justice this year. This webinar will describe what is known about the change in access to abortion that resulted from the end of a federally protected right to abortion. This webinar will also describe the consequences for people who are unable to access abortion based on findings from the UCSF Turnaway Study. Professor Diana Greene Foster will conclude by describing the challenges of studying consequences of abortion bans post-Dobbs.

Zoom login information will be sent 1-week before the webinar. By registering for this webinar, we’ll invite you to future webinars that are part of this year’s series. Register at go.rutgers.edu/dgfoster

Navigating Tensions, Affirming Community--What Does Community Mean in a Polarized Society?
2024-01-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
Kazu Haga is the Co-Director of the Embodiment Project and one of the most experienced trainers in Kingian Nonviolence, a philosophy that comes out of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A leading voice nationally in various approaches to nonviolence, organizing and restorative justice, he works to empower incarcerated communities, youth and activists to work for Beloved Community. Kazu Haga lives in Oakland, California.

RSVP HERE.
To learn more, visit go.rutgers.edu/meetthemoment
Questions? Email diversity@rutgers.edu

CAREERS: Excel Up To Speed
2024-01-26 13:30 - 15:00 | Virtual
Topics covered include Basic AI tools in Excel, Intro to Formulas & Functions (absolute and relative cell references, order of operations), Formatting tools, Tips & tricks, and Autofill variations
REGISTER: https://go.rutgers.edu/ExcelUpToSpeedSpring2024

Frontline Workers and Civic Tech: Bridging the Responsiveness Gap in Automated Service Delivery
2024-01-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Heldrich Center Roosevelt-Perkins Room (second floor), 30 Livingston Ave, New Brunswick, 08901, United States
Join the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development for a brownbag lunch presentation by Dr. Gregory Porumbescu, Associate Professor at the Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration and a faculty affiliate at the Heldrich Center. Dr. Porumbescu will present on the topic, “Frontline Workers and Civic Tech: Bridging the Responsiveness Gap in Automated Service Delivery.” Bring your own lunch, but do note that the Heldrich Center will be providing light refreshments (coffee, tea, soda, water, snacks). Registration is required at the link below.
https://go.rutgers.edu/hkt5n8yy
