Dona Schneider Appointed Associate Dean for Academic Programs
Professor Dona Schneider has been appointed the Bloustein School’s Associate Dean for Academic Programs, responsible for such functions as student financial support, faculty support, on-line and continuing education, and instructional technology. In addition, she will work with Dean James W. Hughes, the other two associate deans, and the program directors as part of a leadership team on school-wide issues that are critical for the Bloustein School’s development, academic programs, and capital campaign.
The associate dean position had been vacant for nearly two years – during the illness of Donald Krueckeberg, and then after his passing. Don had served with distinction for six years as Associate Dean for Masters and Professional Programs. During the vacancy, Associate Dean of the Faculty Michael Greenberg took on the position responsibilities.
In making the appointment, Dean Hughes cited Professor Schneider's “distinguished scholarly research, and teaching accomplishments, her effective leadership skills—especially of the Undergraduate Programs where she greatly increased tuition income and improved the school's financial position—her extensive experience serving on many university-wide committees, and her long-term commitment to advancing the school.”
July 2008
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Awards Project L/EARN $2.95 Million Grant, Miller to Become Co-Director
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded Project L/EARN a $2.95 million, three-year grant to support its eforts to increase diversity in the health research field. With the grant, EJB Professor Jane Miller will become Faculty Director, serving as the program's co-director starting next year. To learn more, click here
June 2008
Listokin, Senick Take Part in America-Israel Green Buildings Conference
Professor David Listokin moderated a panel on "The Meadowlands-Going Green" during the June 4 America-Israel Green Buildings Conference held at the Meadowlands Environment Center. Jennifer Senick, the founder and executive director of the Rutgers Center for Green Building at the Bloustein School, served on the panel with Meadowlands Commission Executive Director Robert Ceberio and James Kirkos, president of the Meadowlands Regional Chamber of Commerce.
April 2008
Vazquez Delivers Presentations at APA National Conference
Leonardo Vazquez, director of the Professional Development Institute and a co-founder of The Leading Institute, delivered a series of presentations on leadership that attracted about 400 planners and other professionals at the American Planning Association annual conference in Las Vegas. Vazquez helped facilitate a three-hour workshop on leading high-performing teams, and spoke on the detrimental effects of poor leadership on planning performance. The workshop and presentation were both based on Vazquez's "Leading from the Middle" model of leadership for planning, development and policy professionals. The APA national conference is the nation's largest conference for urban planners. His book, Leading from the Middle, is scheduled to be published in July by the Center for Government Services.
April 2008
Norman J. Glickman named Thomas Hartmann Policy Fellow
New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP) has created the "Thomas Hartmann Policy Fellow" and named Norman J. Glickman, University Professor at Rutgers University, to the position. Dr. Glickman will contribute his expertise to NJPP over the course of the next year, expanding NJPP's capabilities in such areas as labor market analysis, income inequality and economic development. One of his projects will be The State of Working New Jersey, an examination of the situation working men and women face in the state today. NJPP's new position is named for Thomas B. Hartmann, who served as a member of its Board of Trustees from the organization's founding in 1997 until his death in November 2007. Tom was a professor of Journalism and Mass Media at Rutgers University's Livingston College after helping to found the college. In 1992, Rutgers gave him the Presidential Award for Distinguished Public Service.
February 2008
Robert Curvin Joins EJB as Distinguished Senior Policy Fellow
A world-renowned expert on urban politics, economic development and social policy, Dr. Robert Curvin joined the Bloustein School in February as a Distinguished Senior Policy Fellow. He will present major lectures and take part in regularly scheduled graduate and undergraduate courses and seminars, sharing his vast experience and knowledge on public policy issues and concerns, especially in urban issues, issues of quality and equity, and philanthropy.
His first public lectures were part of a series of events this year at the Bloustein School reflecting back upon the 1967 Newark Disturbances and the resulting Governor’s Select Commission on Civil Disorders, better known as the Lilley Commission. As a Newark community activist at the time, Dr. Curvin worked to restore calm and became a forceful witness for the city's minority population before the Lilley Commission. He was a key organizer in fashioning the coalition that successfully campaigned for the election of Kenneth Gibson, the first African American mayor of Newark. He went on to join the Editorial Board of The New York Times.
Dr. Curvin graduated from Rutgers and received his MSW from the University's Graduate School of Social Work. He received his Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University. Dr. Curvin was most recently president of the Greentree Foundation; director of the Ford Foundation's Urban Poverty Program; dean of the Graduate School of Management and Urban Professions, at the New School for Social Research; associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College; community development specialist at Rutgers University; director of the Rutgers Community Action Training Program; director of the Harlem Leadership Training Institute; and a caseworker and supervisor for the Essex County Welfare Board.
In addition, he currently serves as board chair of the Fund for the City of New York, and is a member of the board of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. He has previously served on the boards of Channel 13, Princeton University, the RAND Corporation, the NJ Performing Arts Center, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, and Broad National Bank. Prior to attending college, he served as an officer in the 101st Airborne Artillery. He is married to Patricia Hall Curvin, a retired high school English teacher. They have two children and two grandchildren.
February 2008
Meck Takes Part in Princeton Symposium Marking Mt. Laurel Decision
Faculty Fellow Stuart Meck took part in a symposium at Princeton University marking the 25th anniversary of the New Jersey Supreme Court's Mt. Laurel ruling regarding municipal obligations to provide affordable housing. In addition, the Journal of Planning History published a paper Meck co-authored with Auburn University Assistant Professor Rebecca Retzlaff regarding a landmark New York state court decision that helped launch smart growth policy.
January 2008
Brownfields Center Welcomes Dr. Judy Shaw
Dr. Judy Shaw has joined the National Center for Brownfield and Neighborhood Redevelopment lead its program to develop sustainable neighborhood revitalization and encourage the innovative reuse of brownfields. Dr. Shaw worked previously with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Community Affairs, and is a certified member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and a licensed Professional Planner in New Jersey.
December 2007
Cliff Zukin Cliff Zukin Named Director of Public Policy
Professor Cliff Zukin in January became Director of the Public Policy Program. Dr. Zukin recently joined the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development and assisted NBC with exit poll analysis during the Super Tuesday presidential nominating primaries. He is the immediate past President of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
November 2007
Chronicle of Higher Education Ranks Bloustein Faculty 7th in Nation
In its 2007 index of 375 universities, the Chronicle of Higher Education ranks the Urban and Regional Planning faculty at Rutgers 7th nationally for scholarly productivity. The ranking accounts for book and journal publications, citations, and grant awards. To learn more, click here
November 2007
Bob Lake of CUPR interviewed on WTMR-AM
(Camden-Philadelphia-Wilmington) on a report coauthored with Kathe Newman, "Civic Engagement in Camden."
Get a scientific bird's-eye perspective on how city residents participate in revitalizing their hometowns as we discuss "Civic Engagement in Camden", a report in which our guest, Dr Robert W Lake of Rutgers University (New Brunswick) and the Center for Urban Policy Research, with other authors has painted a baseline portrait of what the municipal government has done to involve citizens in redevelopment decisionmaking and of what citizens themselves and civic organizations have done to make their voices heard. Perhaps you think you'll hear about citizen apathy or about officials who don't take residents' views fully into account. Perhaps you think you'll hear about a vibrant atmosphere of civic engagement. What you will certainly hear is a serious researcher who has used rigorous methodology to ferret out the truth, and here he tells you about the results.
Anglin Wins Additional Funding for post-Katrina Work
Faculty Fellow Roland Anglin received three more grants relating to his ongoing post-Katrina work on the Gulf Coast. The W.K. Kellog Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation each provided $20,000 grants for a Funders Forum on Sustainable Gulf Coast Transformation that was held in New Orleans. The Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation provided $15,000 for his assistance in helping the Gulf Mid-South Young Leaders organization arrange forums with the 2008 presidential candidates.
October 2007
Cliff Zukin quoted on NPR's All Things Considered
"Do Polls Miss Views of the Young & Mobile?" Professor Cliff Zukin helps answer this question in this NPR segment.
October 2007
Julia Sass Rubin Wins Two Contracts from U.S. Treasury Department
Two grant proposals submitted by Assistant Professor Julia Sass Rubin for the study of community development financial issues have been awarded a total of $145,000 in funding by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Professor Rubin will be principal investigator on a $100,000 study, Assessing Community Development Loan Funds' Systemic Impacts, and a $45,000 study, Community Development Venture Capital in Rural Communities.
October
2007 Clint Andrews Shares $1.8 million National
Science Foundation Grant Clinton
J. Andrews, associate professor, and Uta Krugmann, an associate
extension specialist with Cook College, were awarded a $1.8 million
grant from the National Science Foundation for their project Self-Sufficient
Urban Buildings. Andrews and Krogmann will explore the opportunities
and limitations in achieving sustainable design with water and energy
service for urban buildings.
October 2007
Jagannathan Teams with Cook Professor on 3 Grant Projects
Associate Professor Radha Jagannathan and Cook College Professor Michael Camasso are teaming on three grant projects. The Newark Department of Health and Human Services awarded a $35,000 grant to evaluate homeless services and another for $87,000 to evaluate community-based centers for the prevention of child abuse and neglect. Middle Earth, a Somerset County non-profit agency serving disadvantaged youth, hired Jagannathan and Camasso to evaluate the effectiveness of an after-school program provided by Bound Brook to 100 middle school students. The $16,000 contract was funded by the state Department of Education as part of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program.
September 2007
Newman Leads First-Year Seminar on Gentrification, Foreclosures
Assistant Professor Kathe Newman took part in a new Rutgers program for incoming freshman, leading a first-year seminar to familiarize a select group of students with the university's research agenda. Newman led the students on a tour of Harlem and, joined by University Professor Norm Glickman, a tour of Coney Island where Newman discussed her research into gentrification in New York City. The group’s work was featured in a page 1 feature of The Star-Ledger and by the Rutgers University Foundation. http://campaign.rutgers.edu/impact/
September
2007 NPR's Day to Day features Carl
Van Horn Carl Van Horn, Director of
the John J. Heldrich Center
for Workforce Development was featured on NPR's "Day to
Day" program in a segment titled "'Marketplace' Report:
The State of U.S. Workers" Click here for the transcript. Click here to listen.
July 2007 NPR Morning Edition features
Frank Popper
An interview with Professor
Frank J. Popper was included in National Public Radio's piece, Smaller is Better for Youngstown, Ohio. Click here to listen.
May 2007 Jagannathan, Nikpour, Buehler Win 2007 Jeremy Rose Teaching Excellence Awards
The 2007 Jeremy Rose Teaching Excellence Awards were presented to Associate Professor Radha Jagannathan (Faculty), Fereydoun Nikpour (Parttime Faculty) and Ralph Buehler (Teaching Assistant.) The awards are based on nominations in the three categories that are submitted to a committee consisting of past winners and representatives from the graduate and undergraduate programs.
May 2007 Three Bloustein School faculty members receive prestigious Rutgers University annual faculty awards: Michael Greenberg has won the Faculty Scholar-Teacher Award for the 2006-2007 academic year, an award that recognizes faculty who successfully integrate scholarship with teaching. Jane Miller received the 2007 Research Mentor of the Year Award from the university’s Aresty Research Center in recognition of her outstanding mentorship of undergraduate students conducting research. Meredeth Turshen was recognized as a “Leader in Diversity."
eider Appointed Associate Dean for Academic Programs
A world-renowned expert on urban politics, economic development and social policy, Dr. Robert Curvin joined the Bloustein School in February as a Distinguished Senior Policy Fellow. He will present major lectures and take part in regularly scheduled graduate and undergraduate courses and seminars, sharing his vast experience and knowledge on public policy issues and concerns, especially in urban issues, issues of quality and equity, and philanthropy.
enter Welcomes Dr. Judy Shaw