Sixth annual Krueckeberg doctoral

conference in Urban Studies, Urban

Planning and Public Policy

Monday, March 10, 2014

 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The 6th Annual Krueckeberg Doctoral Conference in Urban Studies, Urban Planning and Public Policy is scheduled for Monday, March 10, 2014 at the Bloustein School at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.

WHAT IS THE KRUECKEBERG DOCTORAL CONFERENCE?

The Krueckeberg Doctoral Conference is organized by doctoral students for doctoral students engaged in urban-, planning-, 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 Kreuckeberg’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.

Doctoral students at any stage of dissertation research are invited and encouraged to present their work at the conference. You can participate in the conference if you are first year and trying out a topic, you have just defended a finished dissertation, or you are anywhere in between. Presentations can outline a tentative research topic, survey the literature, report interim findings, or overview a completed dissertation. Each presenter will have 15 minutes, followed by a Q&A period at the end of each session.

For further information, please visit the full announcement at KDC CFP 2014

Read the full article on the abandoned housing interactive mapping project engendered by our partners at CamConnect…

Please consider making a donation for New Visions Homeless Day Shelter in Camden.  CURE is partnering with NJ PIRG at Rutgers-Camden to collect items and/or monetary donations for this organization, such as:

• Baby items (formula, jars of food, diapers)

• Canned goods (peanut butter, jelly, spaghetti o’s, fruit, etc)

• Cleaning supplies (bleach, Cleaning Wipes, Lysol)

• Laundry detergent

• Clothing (Men’s, Women’s, and Children’s)

• Toiletries (Razors, Shaving Cream, Toothpaste, Toothbrushes, Deodorant, Feminine Products, Soap, and Shampoo)

• Towels / Sleeping Bags / Bed Linens

      Dr. Jeounghee Kim is an Associate Professor at School of Social Work, Rutgers University in New Brunswick. She studies the economic well-being and mobility of disadvantaged individuals and conducts quantitative data analyses applying longitudinal research methods to large public data. She is particularly interested in how human capital (e.g., education, training, and workforce development, etc.) and various public assistance policies and programs (e.g., income security, food assistance, Workforce Investment Act, etc.) affect the labor market and marriage outcomes of individuals with disadvantaged backgrounds. She is currently examining how immigrants’ post-immigration college enrollment and job training activities as well as their labor market returns to those activities vary by socioeconomic status using the Survey of Income and Program Participation. She also teaches policy analysis, social welfare policies and services, and women’s issues for MSW and PhD programs. She earned her doctoral degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.