Highlights of 2011 - Institute for Policy Research - Northwestern ...

Fay Lomax Cook: Celebrating 16 Years
Distinguished Public Policy Lectures
IPR’s Distinguished Public Policy Lectures feature those who
straddle policymaking and academia, such as Undersecretary of
Commerce Rebecca Blank and Professor James Comer.
CUAPR Becomes IPR
One of Cook’s first acts as director was changing the
organization’s name from the Center for Urban Affairs and
Policy Research to the shorter Institute for Policy Research.
Cook welcomes Yale University’s James Comer who was the 1997 IPR
Distinguished Public Policy Lecturer.
Enhancing Research Programs
IPR’s endeavour to remain relevant in its research has resulted
in the launch of two major new program areas in the last seven
years: Cells to Society (C2S) in 2005, and the Q-Center in 2006.
The front of the IPR administrative building at 2040 Sheridan Road.
Expanding Dissemination
Cook assisted in the creation of the IPR policy research briefings
in 2003 that highlight how faculty research can be applied to
current policy issues for a broad audience.
IPR anthropologist Thomas McDade shows how to collect a dried blood
spot sample at the 2010 C2S Summer Biomarker Institute.
Undergraduate Summer RA Program
IPR started its Summer Undergraduate Research Assistants
Program in 1998, which Cook was instrumental in launching.
Concluding its 14th year, it welcomes 20 to 25 students annually.
IPR 2012 policy research briefing panelists: (from left) Dorothy Roberts,
Lincoln Quillian, Susan Popkin, Wesley G. Skogan, and Stefanie DeLuca.
Colloquia
One of IPR’s greatest traditions—its signature Monday
colloquium series, which Cook instituted—will be renamed the
“IPR Fay Lomax Cook Monday Colloquium Series.”
Summer 2009 undergraduate assistants, with Cook (top right) and IPR
fellow Emma Adam (first row, center), gain valuable research experience.
IPR social psychologist Jennifer Richeson will give the first talk in the
newly renamed colloquium series.
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