[The truth about research of the DEN/UFS]

This study is about the research process in the Nursing and Nutrition Department of the Federal University of Sergipe--DEN/UFS. It was developed through semi structured interviews made with the professors. From the material obtained, we presented the professor's conceptions about groups, areas and research projects; the scientific production; difficulties and possibilities related to the research activity; strategies that this Department has been using for the development of research, the capacitation of professors and the researchers' formation, besides the initiation of students (graduation and pos graduation) in the "scientific world". As its result, we got the need of deepening in this activity and the propagation and application of its results in nursing.