NICHD POPULATION RESEARCH CENTER CORE GRANT

这是一份为期五年的NICHD竞争性续期申请 人口研究中心人口研究核心支助赠款 宾夕法尼亚州立大学的PRI研究所。PRI是一个 多学科中心，鼓励，组织和支持 人口学研究和培训。PRI研究人员代表11个 来自6所学院的学术部门。PRI首次获得NICHD资助 1991年从那时起，主要是由于P30核心资金，PRI 经历了17个联营公司或附属公司的增加，已经开发了一个 大量的合格赠款组合，并几乎翻了一番， 在过去的五年里，学术出版物。这 申请要求增加资金，以建立在过去的成功 在确保PRI行政部门的成本效益和稳定性的同时， 信息、计算机和统计核心。PRI还提出了一个新的 地理信息分析核心，建立在长期的 教师在空间分析和多层次建模技术方面的优势 并为加强与宾夕法尼亚大学的联系提供了一个体制机制 国家的学术实力强大的统计和地理部门。 还要求为一个新的程序开发项目提供适度的支持 在生物人口学方面，这将支持小规模的创新研究 生物学和人口学之间的接口项目。这一倡议 建立在生殖和生物行为方面的现有教师优势之上 内分泌学，并将由PRI的匹配资金支持。的 续期申请列出了25项已获资助的提案和17项待决提案， 合格赠款。共有13项现有提案和8项待决提案将使用 新的GIA核心PRI还保持了强大的前和博士后 由NIA、Mellon Foundation和Hewlett资助的培训项目 基金会

This is an application for a five-year competing renewal of an NICHD Population Research Center Core Support Grant to the Population Research Institute (PRI) at The Pennsylvania State University. PRI is a multidisciplinary center that encourages, organizes, and supports research and training in demography. PRI researchers represent 11 academic departments from 6 Colleges. PRI first received NICHD funding in 1991. Since then, and largely as a result of P30 core funding, PRI has experienced an increase of 17 associates or affiliates, has developed a large portfolio of qualifying grants, and has nearly doubled the number of scholarly publications over the preceding five-year period. This application requests an increase in funding to build on past success while ensuring cost-efficiencies and stability in PRI's Administrative, Information, Computer, and Statistics Cores. PRI also is proposing a new Geographic Information Analysis Core, which builds on longstanding faculty strengths in spatial analysis and multilevel modelling techniques and provides an institutional mechanism for strengthening ties to Penn State's academically strong Departments of Statistics and Geography. Modest support also is requested for a new program development project in biodemography, which will support small-scale innovative research projects on the interface between biology and demography. This initiative builds on current faculty strengths in reproductive and biobehavioral endocrinology, and will be supported by matching monies from PRI. The renewal application lists 25 funded and 17 pending proposals as potential qualifying grants. A total of 13 current and 8 pending proposals will use the new GIA Core. PRI also maintains strong pre- and postdoctoral training programs with funding from NIA, Mellon Foundation, and Hewlett Foundation.