By Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger
CAMDEN — The sleek steel tables for dissecting cadavers are in place. The hall lockers are lined up and waiting to be filled with books and lab coats. The last of the paint is being rolled on the walls outside the classrooms.
All Cooper Medical School needs is students.
Gov. Chris Christie and a bevy of politicians, higher education officials and community leaders will gather Tuesday in Camden to cut the ribbon on New Jersey’s first new medical school in nearly 35 years.
The school, part of Rowan University, will be housed in a new $139 million state-of-the-art building diagonal from Cooper University Hospital in the city’s Lanning Square neighborhood. Its first class of 50 future doctors arrives next month.
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