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.
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.