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Second
Annual Society for Prevention
Research Sloboda and Bukoski SPR
Cup
Significant
advances in prevention science
are often due to a team of individuals
working closely together across
many years. In recognition of
the importance of the collaborative
process to the field, the Society
for Prevention Research (SPR)
once again will sponsor a friendly
competition amongst teams of researchers
for honor of bringing home the
traveling Sloboda and Bukoski
SPR Cup for the 2007-2008 academic
year.
The
Cup is named in honor of two of
the founders and long time active
members of SPR, Dr. Zili Sloboda
and Dr. William Bukoski. The Cup
competition is an opportunity
for an unique experience: several
independent teams of scientists,
each working with the same data
set, problem solve together for
a brief period of time and then
jointly present their ideas to
each other and a larger group
of experienced prevention scientists.
2007
Teams
PreventionGeeks,
Leslie Clinkenbeard, DrPH, MPH,
Team Captain; Andrea LaFazia,
MSW, MPH; Rosina Everitte, MPH
Standard
Deviations; Jason T. Siegel, Ph.D.,
Team Captain; Vanessa Hemovich,
M.A., Andrew Lac, M.A., M.P.A.,
Neil M. Patel, M.A. and Sarah
Ting M.A.
Team
Violence Prevention; Kathy Modecki,
M.A., Team Captain; Eva Kimonis,
Ph.D.; Clay Cook, M.A.; Elizabeth
Trejos, Ph.D.; Betsy Feldman,
M. A.
Competition
SPR
Cup teams will receive a data
set via email two months prior
to the annual meeting. Each team
then will conduct a literature
review, generate hypotheses, conduct
analyses, and prepare a presentation
for a 10-minute symposium talk
on their results.
Teams
will present their results during
an invited symposium at the SPR
annual meeting. A panel of senior
prevention scientist judges and
the audience at the symposium
will rate the quality of the research
work and of the presentation.
The
highest scoring team will be recognized
and awarded the SPR Cup during
the SPR Awards Ceremony. The defending
champion from the inaugural year
of the Cup is the Sun Devil Scholars
from the Prevention Research Center
at Arizona State University.
Eligible
Participants
Eligible
participants for teams are individuals
who are either (1) currently enrolled
in a masters or doctoral training
program, or (2) have received
their terminal graduate degree
within the last 5 years and have
not yet been a principal investigator
on research grant from a federal
agency or private foundation.
Data
Set
A
public data set relevant to prevention
science will be used. Last year,
the data set was from the Monitoring
the Future project from the University
of Michigan.
Mentors
An
experienced SPR Cup prevention
science mentor will be assigned
to advise each team and will be
available for consultation via
phone or email on an as needed
basis. Teams may access other
mentors as desired. All mentors
must be acknowledged during the
presentation.
Publication
All
participating teams will be encouraged
to refine their analyses after
the meeting and to generate publishable
products. The highest scoring
team may be invited to submit
a manuscript to be considered
for publication in SPR’s
flagship journal Prevention
Science.
Further
Information
Questions
about the Cup are welcome. Please
contact:
J.
Mark Eddy, Ph.D., and Charles
R. Martinez, Jr., Ph.D.
Co-Chairs, 2007 Sloboda and Bukoski
SPR Cup
marke@oslc.org
and
charlesm@oslc.org
(541) 485-2711
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