P82 New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative

Healthy Kids

The New Jersey MEMS Initiative---from Concept to Commercialization

The New Jersey MEMS Initiative is a comprehensive research, development, commercialization and education program initiated through the NJ Commission on Science and Technology. During its first year the Initiative has (1) undertaken the assessment and improvement of NJ MEMS fabrication and characterization capabilities at the university level, helping to strengthen and make more accessible the s...

Evaluation of Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities.

Kids into health careers: a rural initiative.

PURPOSE To describe a project that introduces middle school and high school students living in Pennsylvania's rural geographic regions to nursing careers through outreach extended to students regardless of gender, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status. METHOD The authors employed many strategies to inform students about careers in nursing. The methods included: working with guidance counselors, ...

New Jersey Medical School

and is one of only eight of its kind currently funded by the NCI (competitive renewal in 2010). This program, which has been continuously funded by the NCI for 41 years, provides a unique eight-week research experience for New Jersey Medical School's first and second-year medical students as well as undergraduate students enrolled in our combined BS/MD seven-year program. This year 21 medical s...