UPCOMING EVENTS (All events are free, open to the public and take place in the Special Events Forum unless noted.)
February 25, 2010
Ruth Ellen Steinman and Edward J. Bloustein Memorial Lecture Co-Sponsored by The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life Rachelle Alterman, The Evolution of Israel's Housing Policies: Planning in the Face of Crisis
5:30 p.m., Special Events Forum Professor Alterman, who holds the David Azrieli Chair in Town Planning at the Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, specializes in cross-national comparative planning law and land use regulation. She is the founding president of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law and Property Rights. In Israel, she is regarded as the leading academic in planning, as indicated by the prestigious Landau National Academic Prize that she was awarded in 2009. Her publications are frequently cited by the Israel Supreme Court, and she has served as a consultant to the World Bank and the UN on cross-national transfers of "best practices" in planning law, land policy, and housing. This event was submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits. Click here to learn more.
February 19, 2010 Symposium on Planning and Diversity in Perspective: Environmental Sustainability in Low Income and Minority Neighborhoods Presented by the Rutgers Association of Planning and Policy Students
Keynote Lecture: Cities in Racial Transition: Planning and Policy Challenges Robert A. Catlin Memorial Lecture by Robert Curvin, Distinguished Senior Policy Fellow, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
This event is designed to tackle the complexities of sustainable planning in inner city neighborhoods and communities of color. Panelists will address sustainable redevelopment as a community economic development activity; local, state, and federal policy efforts related to sustainability; and how to navigate a career in environmental sustainability.
Catlin lecturer Robert Curvin will discuss the history of racial composition in American cities and how these changes are reflected in policy. This event was submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits. Click Here for Flyer | Visit Website | Register for Event
February 17, 2010
Second Annual Krueckeberg Doctoral Conference in Planning and Public Policy
EJBS Special Events Forum
10:00 am to 4:00 pm; Reception follows at 4:00 pm
The Krueckeberg Doctoral Conference is the annual keystone event of the Doctoral Program in Planning and Public Policy at Bloustein. The all-day conference commemorates Professor Don Krueckeberg's enduring contributions to the doctoral program and highlights research by current doctoral students. This year, eleven students will report on
dissertation research spanning a broad range of topics in planning and public policy.
The event includes lunch and a keynote lecture by Professor Robert Beauregard, a former colleague of Don Krueckeberg and currently Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, who will speak on "Balancing Evidence and Claims: Making Research Arguments."
This is an opportunity to participate in the intellectual and professional life of the Doctoral Program and the Bloustein School, to hear about current research, to meet doctoral students across cohorts, and to engage with our academic community. Please see the schedule flyer for details.
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February 9th and 10th, 2010
Teach-in on Afghanistan
February 9, 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm and on Feb. 10th from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm at Trayes Hall, Douglass Campus, New Brunswick.
Meredeth Turshen, Ph.D and Professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, invites you to attend a teach-in on Afghanistan to be held on Feb. 9th from 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm and on Feb. 10th from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm at Trayes Hall, Douglass Campus, New Brunswick.
Rutgers professors and guest speakers will discuss the history of Afghanistan and the social, political and economic problems confronting Pakistan (Angus K. Gillespie), The Impact of Obama's Decision on the Construction of a Civil Society in the Region and the Role of Women (Fakhri Haghani), The Effects of War on Women and Iranian Anti-war Movement (Golbarg Bashi), Veterans' Opposition to the War (Ken Dalton) along with other topics and speakers.
Please see the attached flyer for more details.
2009-10 Colloquium Series
The Bloustein School is conducting its second annual series of weekly presentations by faculty and outside speakers on various issues of current interest. Click here to view the full schedule.
EVENTS RECAP
December 8, 7:30 pm
Annual Isadore Candeub Memorial Lecture in Planning
June Williamson, Associate Professor of Architecture, City College of New York
June Williamson will discuss the book she co-authored with Ellen Dunham-Jones, Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs, for this year's Candeub Memorial Lecture. An urban designer and registered architect, she has authored design guidelines and consulted on numerous urban design projects throughout the U.S. Click here to learn more.
September 15-December 1, 2009 Room 369,Tuesdays, 4-5:30 pm
2009 Planning Film Series
The Urban Planning and Policy Development Program is sponsoring a Tuesday film series on planning subjects ranging from garden suburbs to globalization. Each film runs about 55 minutes, providing 35 minutes for introduction and discussion. Dr. Robert W. Burchell, the program chair, will host each screening with another faculty member expert in the subject area. For the full schedule, click here.
November 24
Explaining Globalization: A Worldview on a Shrinking World and an Expanding Economy
A reort originally aired on the The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Faculty guests: Professor Robert W. Burchell, Associate Research Professor Michael Lahr
November 19
Robert Weaver and the American City
Wendell Pritchett, Chancellor, Rutgers-Camden
Chancellor Pritchett lectureD on Robert Weaver, who became the the first African-American cabinet member in 1966 when he was appointed Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development by Lyndon Johnson. Pritchett's book, "Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and times of an Urban Reformer," was hailed by William Julius Wilson as a "tour de force (that) brilliantly captures...how racial tensions profoundly influenced battles over the future of American cities." Pritchett examined how race, biography, politics, and policy came together in Weaver's appointment as the first Secretary of HUD, as well as the first African American in the president's cabinet. Before coming to Rutgers-Camden, Pritchett was a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Office of Research, Planning, and Policy for the City of Philadelphia. His lecture is part of the 2009-10 Bloustein Colloquium Series.
November 12 The Obama Administration and U.S. Transportation Policy Roy Kienitz, Under Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Transportation
Roy Kienitz, the USDOT's Under Secretary for Policy, presented an overview of the Obama administration's priorites on federal transportation policy, sustainability, livable communities and reauthorization of the federal transportation program as the guest of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center.
October 30 The Great Recession, the American Labor Market, & Public Policy
The John J. Heldrich Center for Wortkforce Development hosted Erica Groshen, regional vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, along with Bloustein School professors William M. Rodgers III and Norman J. Glickman, for an analysis of the Great Recession and what the government is doing and might do to stabilize the U.S. economy, stem the loss of jobs, and accelerate economic recovery and opportunity. Part of the Heldrich Conversations Series.
October 29
R/ECON™ Fall 2009 Conference
The Rutgers Economic Advisory Service (R/ECON™) Fall Conference provided an overview of the U.S. and New Jersey jobs picture and highlighted health care in New Jersey in terms of its
contribution to the state’s economy as well as the challenges and possibilities for its delivery in the state.
Dean James Hughes and University Professor Joseph Seneca gave an overview of the current
position of the U.S. and New Jersey economies, followed by a short-term forecast for New Jersey’s economy by R/ECON Director Nancy Mantell.
Joel Cantor, director of the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy, presented on the New Jersey health care industry.
October 2 New Jersey’s Economy: Status of Gloom and Prospects for Bloom
Sponsored by the New Jersey League of Municipalities Educational Foundation, the half-day program examined the economic downturn from the national, New York regional and New Jersey perspectives. Bloustein School Dean James W. Hughes moderated a panel on current economic conditions and Professor Henry Coleman moderated a second panel on the economic outlook.
August 23-26, 2009
National HIV Prevention Conference, Atlanta, GA
EJB Program Delivers Key Presentation
Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control, the annual conference drew 3,000 participants from across the nation to focus on new developments in HIV prevention. The Bloustein School's HIV Prevention Community Planning Support and Development Initiative (CPSDI,) a joint program with the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, delivered a prestigious podium presentation regarding the Jersey SISTA's program. To view the presentation abstract, click here.
July 20, 2009
Planning and Designing Climate-Friendly Towns: A Workshop for DEP Grants
Co-sponsored by the New Jersey Sustainable State Institute, NJ Future and the Mayors Committee for a Green Future, the workshop familiarized municipal and county officals with a new state grants program, the Local Government Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program. The workshop focused specifically on the development and implementation of climate-friendly design guidelines and zoning standards that allow for compact, walkable mixed-use development and/or transit-oriented development. The Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center partnered in the event. Click here for the program.
May 17, 2009
Nicholas Music Center
2009 Bloustein School Convocation This Bloustein School held its 6th Convocation ceremony, honoring the graduates of its doctoral and master's programs.
9th Annual Bloustein School Family Feud This annual alumni event, which pits returning graduates from our planning and public policy master's programs against each other in a test for intellectual supremacy, this year featured NJ Network news anchor Jim Hooker as emcee. Hosted by the Bloustein School Alumni Association. Click here for the program.
Spring Colloquium Series
The Bloustein School conducted an inaugural series of weekly presentations by faculty, students and outside speakers on various issues of current interest. Click here to view the full schedule.
April 25, 2009
Busch, College Avenue, and Cook/Douglass campuses
Rutgers Day-Bloustein School events The Bloustein School played an active role in this year's inaugural Rutgers Day celebration, hosting seven events on the New Brunswick and Piscataway campuses.
For a complete list of the EJB events, click here
April 24, 2009
First Annual Krueckeberg Doctoral Conference in Planning and Public Policy In honor of the late Professor Donald A. Krueckeberg, the Bloustein School initiated an annual Doctoral Conference in Planning and Public Policy. Professor Robert Noland and Assistant Professor Gabriella Carolini moderated presentations by eight Bloustein School doctoral candidates. The event opened with a retrospective on Professor Krueckeberg's contributions to the Bloustein School's doctoral program and the planning profession. To learn more, click here
April 13, 2009
Some Place Like Home Rutgers Film Series on New York A documentary by Furee, Some Place Like Home, The Fight Against Gentrification in Downtown Brooklyn, was screened at the Bloustein School as part of the Rutgers Film Series on New York. A panel discussion with planners and community activists followed. To learn more, click here
March 26, 2009
Conquering Gotham: Author Jill Jonnes Author Jill Jonnes discussed her book, Conquering Gotham, which chronicles the political and engineering challenges overcome by the Pennsylvania Railroad in the early 1900s when it built Penn Station New York and connecting tunnels to New Jersey and Long Island. Following her presentation, Art Silber, chief of NJ TRANSIT's ARC project discussed the imminent construction of the first new set of Hudson River rail tunnels in 100 years. Sponsored by the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center. Click here to learn more.
March 6, 2009
Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
Transportation & Infrastructure Issues for the Next Decade The Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC) co-sponsored this daylong event which featured numerous speakers, including Port Authority Chairman Anthony Coscia, the transportation commissioners of New Jersey, New York State and New York City, Anne Canby of the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership, Robert Puentes of the Brookings Institution and others. VTC Director Robert Noland and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation Mort Downey, who chairs the VTC board, also made presentations. The event was sponsored by VTC, Princeton's Policy Research Institute and the Rudin Center at New York University. Click here to learn more.
February 9, 2009
"Hydrogen in New Jersey: A New Policy?"
Dr. JoAnn Milliken, U.S. Department of Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy's hydrogen program manager, Dr. Milliken was joined by a distinguished panel of experts to discuss the work being performed in the Hydrogen Program and how New Jersey can develop a similar policy to help fulfill it's new Energy Master Plan. Panel members included:
Kenny Esser, Chief Energy Advisor to Governor Jon Corzine
David Goldston, former Chief of Staff, U.S. House Committee on Science
Clint Andrews, Director, Urban Planning and Policy Development Program, Bloustein School
The event was sponsored by the Center for Energy, Economic and Environmental Policy as part of its Hydrogen Learning Center project. Click here for more information.
February 5, 2009
4th Annual Robert A. Catlin Memorial Lecture: Herbert J. Gans Imagining the Suburban Future
A presentation by Columbia University Professor Herbert J. Gans was read, revisiting themes around suburban life first raised in his seminal works of the 1960s, “The Urban Villagers” and “The Levittowners.” Following his presentation, a distinguished three-member panel offered its reflections on the import for today’s New Jersey suburbs.
Click here for event details, and here for Professor Gans' remarks.
February 4, 2009 Syriana
The film Syriana was screened and followed by a discussion of the geopolitics of petroleum. Sponsored by Professor Meredeth Turshen
January 21, 2009
R/ECON™ Winter 2009 Conference: Outlook for the Regional Economy
The Rutgers Economic Advisory Service provided an outlook for the regional economy, covering current and prospective conditions in New Jersey and New York. The conference included a R/ECON™ short-term forecast for New Jersey’s economy, a presentation on New York’s economy by Jason Bram of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a round-table discussion with Bloustein School Dean James Hughes and Professor Joseph Seneca. Click here to read the forecast.
