The Rudd Adoption Research Program will offer a Summer Institute, planned for May 21-26, 2017 on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. This summer institute is for graduate students and recent PhDs who are planning careers in adoption research. Topics will include data organization and management, longitudinal analysis, analyzing family and couple-level data, considering culture in adoption research, community engagement, and translation and dissemination of research findings. The methodological topics will be interspersed with discussions of adoption in global perspective, balancing the personal and professional, the history of adoption, research funding, and more.