Texas Census Research Data Center (TXCRDC)

该奖项为在大学站的德克萨斯农工大学研究园区建立一个研究数据中心提供启动资金。包括德克萨斯农工大学、德克萨斯农工大学系统、德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校和贝勒大学在内的一个大学联盟将与美国人口普查局合作，建立和运营德克萨斯人口普查研究数据中心(TXCRDC)。TXCRDC将拥有一个安全的、最先进的计算设施，为周围多个州地区的研究人员提供只能通过全国人口普查研究数据中心网络访问的机密数据文件。通过提供机密的联邦数据，TXCRDC将提高德克萨斯州和周边地区研究人员可以进行的项目的研究能力和质量。作为全国仅有的十几个这样的设施之一，TXCRDC将服务于广泛的跨学科研究社区的需求，目的是进行基础科学研究和政策研究的组合。在TXCRDC进行的研究项目将涉及来自不同科学学科的数十名研究人员。这些项目将涉及各种专题，包括但不限于：商业和管理政策；卫生科学和卫生政策；移民、移徙和人口分布与变化；城市和区域规划；工程和社会影响分析；灾害和灾害规划以及灾害影响和恢复评估；交通科学和交通规划与政策；以及环境和能源政策。该中心还将通过提高联邦统计机构数据和统计系统的质量和价值，为其提供直接好处。

This award provides start-up funding for the establishment of a Research Data Center located in the Texas A&M University Research Park in College Station. A consortium of universities, including Texas A&M University, the Texas A&M University System, the University of Texas at Austin, and Baylor University, will partner with the U.S. Census Bureau to establish and operate the Texas Census Research Data Center (TXCRDC). The TXCRDC will house a secure, state-of-the art computing facility to provide researchers in the surrounding multi-state region access to confidential data files available only through the national network of Census Research Data Centers. By providing access confidential federal data, the TXCRDC will enhance the research capabilities and quality of projects that can be undertaken by researchers in Texas and the surrounding area.As one of only a dozen such facilities in the nation, the TXCRDC will serve the needs of a broad, interdisciplinary research community for the purposes of conducting a mix of basic science research and policy research. Research projects conducted in the TXCRDC will involve many dozens of researchers drawn from a variety of scientific disciplines. Projects will address a diverse range of topics including, but not limited to the following: business and management policy; health sciences and health policy; immigration, migration and population distribution and change; urban and regional planning; engineering and social impact analysis; planning for hazards and disasters and assessment of hazards impact and recovery; transportation science and transportation planning and policy; and environmental and energy policies. The center also will provide direct benefits to the federal statistical agencies by enhancing the quality and value of their data and statistical systems.