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Fort Bend Independent School DistrictNEWS RELEASE |
** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE **
Medical Interns from Hightower, Marshall, and Willowridge High Schools to Present Research Projects at 2010 PIPELINE Culminating Program and Luncheon
FORT BEND ISD ― On Friday, July 30, summer interns of M.D. Anderson's Center for Research on Minority Health (representing Hightower, Marshall, and Willowridge High Schools) will present their research projects and findings, and display their scientific posters to a group of medical, health and research professionals at the 2010 PIPELINE Culmination Program and Luncheon, hosted by Dr. Lovell A. Jones and the Center for Research on Minority Health’s Department of Health Disparities Research at the MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Presenting will be: Dinishi Abayarathna, Amber Ali, and Hannah Pham of Hightower High School; Raunaq Bana and Shahana Momin of Marshall High School; and Daisy Fuentes, Coriece Jones, and Amilda Medina of Willowridge High School. All were participants of the PIPELINE Scientific Training Program: Linking Training from High School to Graduate Programs with MD Anderson’s Center for Research on Minority Health.The program introduces interested and qualified Texas students to a research environment, utilizing a school setting. It also provides firsthand experience in the varied career opportunities available in the biomedical sciences, public health and community-based participatory research for students. The eight-week program for high school and college students generally runs from early June through the last week of July.
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