Over 3 million registered nurses practice in the U.S. Of those, only 7 percent are Hispanic, despite Hispanics making up 17 percent of the population. This disparity has highlighted the need to recruit nurses of color into nursing schools. A five-year, $1.5 million National Institutes of Health grant, the Science Education Partnership Award , is making it possible to reach out through media resources to teachers and students in high school and college.