District 19 Senator Joseph F. Vitale (D) Assemblyman Joseph Vas (D) Assemblyman John S. Wisniewski (D)*Rutgers Alum* Rutgers People in District 19   4,365   Alumni   1,305   Undergraduate and Graduate Students   451   Continuing Ed Students Enrolled Locally   455   Faculty/Staff   6,576   Total

• Continuing and Professional Education Courses: Keeping the state's workforce current (Carteret, Sayreville)
• Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program: Helping limited-resource families make healthy nutrition choices (Perth Amboy, South Amboy, Woodbridge)
• Rutgers Cooperative Extension 4-H: Youth development programs including Explorations Week summer camp to build youth self-confidence and Teen Council Project GIFT to provide free holiday shopping for families in need (Medford, Perth Amboy, Sayreville)

• Waksman Student Scholars Program: Yearlong program in molecular biology, genetics, and bioinformatics (Woodbridge)
• Teens Teaching Middle School Youth Workforce Preparation: Team-building, communication, goal-setting, job exploration, and character education activities for more than 700 middle school youth (Sayreville)
• Center for Mathematics, Science, and Computer Education: Professional teacher development contributing to excellence in mathematics, science, and the integration of technology across the curriculum (Carteret, Perth Amboy, Sayreville, South Amboy, Woodbridge)

Did You Know?

The Waksman Student Scholars Program (WSSP) is an outreach program through the Rutgers University Waksman Institute of Microbiology. Supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, GE Healthcare and the Toshiba Foundation, this program engages high school students and their teachers in genuine molecular biology research projects. There is a one month summer program where a teacher and two students attend the Waksman Institute, located on Rutgers University's Busch Campus, to learn and conduct professional research in molecular biology then teachers and students return to their respective high schools to continue the research throughout the academic year. Over the past 14 years, more than 2,000 individuals from over 40 New Jersey high schools, including high schools in Colonia and Woodbridge, have participated in the WSSP. In last two years, the Student Scholars program has analyzed more than 600 DNA sequences and published many of these sequences at GenBank, the international DNA sequence database. The Waksman Institute is named after the late Selman Waksman, a former Rutgers professor and graduate who won the Nobel Prize in 1952 for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis.

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