News and Events

On September 20th, 2013, we hosted an Urban Issues roundtable with CURE-affiliated scholars.  We discussed each others new and ongoing research, possibilities for collaboration, and we introduced the newest CURE-affiliated scholars. 

The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, seeks a full-time tenure-track faculty member in international development planning and policy. Expertise may be in any relevant specialty (e.g.,infrastructure, housing, natural resources, development processes, globalization,migration, vulnerability). The position will be at the assistant or associate professor level.  

Faculty Position announcement

J. J. Cutuli is an Assistant Professor in Psychology at Rutgers University-Camden. His research involves the developmental processes of resilience and risk for children and families who experience high levels of adversity, such as homelessness, maltreatment, and poverty. As a developmental scientist, his work considers how factors at different levels of the person and her context come together in complex ways over time, leading to success or challenges in important outcomes like education, health, relationships, mental health, and good conduct. He received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota as an NIMH fellow with dual training in child development and clinical psychology.

 

 

Center Director Paul Jargowsky gave a seminar talk at City University of New York, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College in New York City on September 11, 2013.

Title: The Effects of Texas’s Targeted Pre-Kindergarten Program on Academic Performance

Co-authored with Rodney Andrews (University of Texas at Dallas) and Kristin Kuhne (Communities Foundation of Texas).