The 2008 edition of UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School’s Mini-Med seminar series is in full swing on Wednesday evenings on the Newark campus. The nine-week program introduces the audience to the latest in the medical profession. Mini-Med is sponsored by the school’s Institute for the Public Understanding of Health and Medicine.
UMDNJ hosted its first regional Brain Bee for high school seniors on Saturday, February 23. The event was sponsored by UMDNJ's Office of Health Science Outreach & Education. Dr. Steven Levison of the Department of Neuroscience at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School was the host. The winner was Ms. Danxun Li from Holmdel High School. She will compete in the National Brain Bee at the University of Maryland.
The national competition is an annual event sponsored by the Society for Neuroscience at the University of Maryland. Similar in concept to a spelling bee, it consists of a series of difficult questions about the structures and functions of the brain. The National Brain Bee champion receives a $1,500 prize, a trip for two to the International Brain Bee Championship in Montreal, Canada, an individual trophy, a traveling trophy for their high school, and a paid fellowship to work in the laboratory of a neuroscientist during the summer.
Dr. Paul J. Lioy, professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has been recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus by Rutgers University Graduate School-New Brunswick.
Dr. Lioy has had an internationally recognized career in environmental and occupational health. One of his most significant accomplishments was the establishment in 1985 of the first academically based program in the world on Exposure Assessment (now Science) Research, and its application to environmental problems. He has received lifetime achievement awards in both Exposure Science and Air Pollution Research. Further, he is recognized by the Information Sciences Institute as a highly cited researcher in the fields of environment/ecology.
Aisha and Co. donated 200 of its Ishababies® to the CARES Institute at the UMDNJ-School of Osteopathic Medicine for foster children who receive evaluations through the Institute’s Comprehensive Health Evaluation for Children program, and the company has promised monthly donations of dolls for the rest of the year. All children who enter foster and kinship homes through New Jersey’s Division of Youth and Family Services are required to undergo this comprehensive examination that includes a medical evaluation with immunization updates, mental health screening and developmental evaluation.
