Professor Terry Lum, together with Professors Robert Kane and Rosalie Kane from the School of Public Health, will travel to Hong Kong in July to conduct a two-week training program on intervention research in gerontology for faculty from various Hong Kong colleges. Professor Lum will conduct a workshop on program evaluation at a July 27-29, 2009, conference on productive aging at Shandong University in China. The conference is organized by the School of Philosophy and Social Development at Shandong University and the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis, and is part of the International Symposium and Lectures in Social Policy initiated by the Social Policy Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Science. Lum received a Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship to develop a new collaboration for comparative study of families in Chinese societies. The award will support his efforts to build collaboration between researchers who are interested in Chinese family research in Minnesota, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China.