Population Research Center

人口研究中心（PRC）的得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校（UT）要求根据NICHD R24人口研究基础设施计划五年赠款，以帮助提供基础设施支持服务和项目开发资金一个非常富有成效的跨学科组46人口相关的研究人员。大多数研究人员在五个主题领域中的一个或两个工作：健康差异;宗教，家庭生活和健康;儿童和家庭;教育，成年过渡和劳动力;和拉丁美洲人口和社会政策。这项工作的基础是一个基金会，强调对社会和经济不平等问题的根本关注，严格关注和应用最适当和最先进的方法技术，以及面向联邦和主要基金会的资助和在高质量科学期刊上发表。 本文提出的基础设施计划包括三个核心：一）行政服务核心，以促进人口为基础的研究的启动和完成，并促进中国研究的跨学科增长和合作性质; 2）计算和信息服务核心，为中国的研究人员和其他核心提供最高质量的计算和信息服务和基础设施，以尽可能低的成本为中心和项目，并以最高的效率和安全性; 3）发展核心，为中国的教职员工提供种子资金支持，以发展新兴的研究思想，吸引新的研究人员到中国，并增加中心的整体赠款和出版活动。 与五年前P30中心赠款的最后一次竞争性更新相比，中国是一个更年轻，知识更广泛，更富有成效的研究单位。我们还受益于在过去五年中聘用的17名教师。沿着这一领域的每一个重要标准--赠款、出版物、跨学科活动、机构支持和对未来的承诺--中国比以往任何时候都更强大。 通过R24机制提供的支持将使中国能够继续重新开发令人兴奋的新领域的研究活动，并为中国传统领域的研究实力提供延续。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Population Research Center (PRC) of the University of Texas at Austin (UT) requests a five-year grant under the NICHD R24 Population Research Infrastructure Program to help provide infrastructure support services and project development funds for a very productive interdisciplinary group of 46 population-related researchers. Most researchers work in one or two of five thematic areas: Health Disparities; Religion, Family Life, and Health; Children and Families; Education, Transitions to Adulthood, and the Labor Force; and Latin American Demography and Social policy. Underlying this work is a foundation that emphasizes fundamental attention to issues of social and economic inequality, rigorous attention to, and application of, the most appropriate and advanced methodological techniques, and an orientation toward federal and major foundation grant funding and publication in top quality scientific journals. The infrastructure program proposed here includes three cores: I) an Administrative Services Core to facilitate the initiation and completion of population-based research and to promote the interdisciplinary growth and collaborative nature of PRC research; 2) a Computing and Information Services Core to provide the highest quality computing and information services and infrastructure to researchers and other cores of the PRC, at the lowest possible cost to the center and to projects, and with the highestpossible efficiency and security; and 3) a Developmental Core to provide PRC faculty members with seed financial support to develop nascent research ideas, attract new researchers to the PRC, and increase the overall grant and publication activity of the center. In comparison to the last competitive renewal of the P30 center grant five years ago, the PRC is a substantially younger, intellectually broader, and much more productive research unit. We have also benefited from a tremendous set of 17 faculty hires made over the last five years. Along every criterion that matters in this arena-grants, publications, interdisciplinary activity, institutional support, and promise for the future-the PRC is stronger than ever. Support through the R24 mechanism will enable the PRC to continue in its re-development of exciting new areas of exciting new areas of research activity, as well as provide for the continuance of traditional areas of PRC research strength.