Kinsey summer program arrives

IU's Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction will hold a summer institute on "Understanding High Risk Sexual Behavior" during the last week of July. The program is the first in a planned series of summer institutes.\nThe program will run from July 22-29. Kinsey Institute Director John Bancroft is also director of the program, which will be attended by 25 graduate students from around the world.\n"The focus of the summer institute will be to provide specific training in methodological and theoretical aspects of researching high risk sexual behavior," Bancroft said in a press release. \nInvited faculty will include Professor Ralph DiClemente of Emory University, Dr. Joseph Catania from the University of California at San Francisco and Dr. Janet St. Lawrence from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\nIssues that will be discussed include relevance of sexual identity to sexual risk, sexual risk-taking in special populations, the adolescent and sexual risk, male-female differences in sexual risk-taking and personality factors relevant to high risk sexual behavior.\nThe Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction is a not-for-profit corporation affiliated with IU. It was founded in 1947 by Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, a Harvard-trained professor of zoology who began his groundbreaking sexual research in 1938.