SUMMER RESEARCH INSTITUTE HIGHLIGHTS

CHPR SUMMER RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN SCHOOL OF NURSING

Summer Research Institute Participants	CHPR was fortunate to host a Summer Research Institute at The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing in June 2001. Funded by NINR and organized by the CHPR Executive Council, the Summer Research Institute was designed to provide intensive research training to junior faculty from nursing and other related disciplines in issues related to community-based health promotion interventions with racial/ethnic groups. Twenty-four participants attended the five-day Institute. Eleven were junior faculty or postdoctoral researchers from the UT-Austin campus and nine were from other campuses in the UT System, including UT-Pan American, UT-San Antonio and UT-Houston Health Science Center. Prairie View A & M and Huston-Tillotson were also represented. The University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University each sent two members of their nursing faculties to Austin.

Dr. Carol Allen, Keynote Speaker	Carol Allen, past president of the American Public Health Association, gave the keynote address. Researchers from across the UT campus lent their time and expertise to make the Institute a success. Participating faculty included Dr. Sharon Brown, the Associate Vice President for Research; Dr. Lisa Leiden, and Beth Dishman from the Office of the Vice President for Research; Dr. Ron Angel of the UT Sociology Department and Co-Director of CHPR's Underserved Populations Core; Drs. Yolanda Padilla, Laura Lein, and Ruth McRoy from the School of Social Work; Dr. Nell Gottlieb from Health Education; and Dr. James Pennebaker, Professor of Psychology. Dr. Elena Bastida, from UT Pan American, gave participants an insider's look at the proposal review process. CHPR Director, Alexa Stuifbergen, and Core Directors Lorraine Walker, Lynn Rew, and Graham McDougall worked with Institute attendees individually and in small groups. Dean Dolores Sands spent a morning discussing the nuances of preparing "winning" research objectives and
communicating these in the proposal document with clarity and conciseness. Drs. Shirley Laffrey, Mary Lou Adams, and Heather Becker, all past or current principal investigators on CHPR funded pilot projects, took a very active role, each devoting several hours of their time to helping make the Institute a success. Funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research of the National Institutes of Health