Population Research Institute

人口研究所

• 批准号: 7152437
• 负责人: NANCY S LANDALE
• 金额: $ 60.5万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-07-05 至 2011-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7152437
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; biomedical facility; computer center; family structure /dynamics; health behavior; health disparity; human migration; human population study; human subject; information dissemination; interdisciplinary collaboration; socioenvironment; statistics /biometry

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application for renewed NICHD (R24) infrastructure support for the Population Research Institute (PRI) at The Pennsylvania State University. The requested funding, combined with generous University matching support, will allow PRI to continue developing as a center of excellence in population science and to achieve its fundamental mission of promoting innovative demographic research and training at Penn State. PRI was formed in 1972 and has had continued NICHD infrastructure support since 1991. It is a large and highly multidisciplinary institute, with its 73 tenure-track Research Associates and Affiliates distributed across 17 departments and seven colleges. Recent developments at Penn State, including the formation of the Children, Youth, and Families Consortium and the Survey Research Center, coupled with PRI's new institutional links with the College of Medicine, first-time support from the College of Education, and strengthened ties to the College of Health and Human Development, infuse new energy and resources that will allow PRI to pursue work on three signature themes: interdisciplinary perspectives on family processes and change; interdisciplinary perspectives linking individual, family, and population health overtime; and demographic perspectives on inequality and opportunity. Within each theme we identify broad questions which motivate and structure PRI's ambitious research plans for the next five-year cycle. The productivity of PRI researchers and the quality of their work relies on five forward-looking and cost-effective service cores and a Developmental Infrastructure. The Administrative Core provides expert application assembly and submission service and post-award administration. The Computer Core provides cutting-edge hardware and software support and high-end computer programming. The Geographic Information Analysis Core provides high quality mapping, visualization, contextual data manipulation and spatial analysis capabilities. The Information Core provides literature search and article retrieval services, and maintains both a demography library and a vast social science data archive. The reorganized Statistics Core provides statistical consulting, organizes informative workshops and seminars, and ensures PRI's currency in statistical software. PRI's Developmental Infrastructure draws on new faculty leadership to provide a seed grant program, working group opportunities, and peer review capabilities, all targeted toward junior faculty.

描述(由申请人提供)：这是宾夕法尼亚州立大学人口研究所(PRI)续签NICHD(R24)基础设施支持的申请。所要求的资金，加上慷慨的大学配套支持，将使PRI继续发展成为人口科学方面的卓越中心，并实现其基本使命，即促进宾夕法尼亚州立大学创新的人口研究和培训。PRI成立于1972年，自1991年以来一直为NICHD提供基础设施支持。它是一个大型的、高度多学科的研究所，其73个终身教职研究协会和附属机构分布在17个系和7个学院。宾夕法尼亚州立大学最近的发展，包括成立儿童、青年和家庭联盟和调查研究中心，加上PRI与医学院的新机构联系，教育学院的首次支持，以及与健康与人类发展学院的加强联系，注入了新的能量和资源，使PRI能够就三个标志性主题开展工作：关于家庭进程和变化的跨学科视角；将个人、家庭和人口健康联系在一起的跨学科视角加班；以及关于不平等和机会的人口视角。在每个主题中，我们确定了广泛的问题，这些问题激励和构建了PRI在下一个五年周期的雄心勃勃的研究计划。PRI研究人员的生产力和工作质量取决于五个具有前瞻性和成本效益的服务核心和发展基础设施。行政核心提供专家申请汇编和提交服务以及授标后管理。计算机核心提供尖端硬件和软件支持以及高端计算机编程。地理信息分析核心提供高质量的地图绘制、可视化、上下文数据处理和空间分析功能。信息核心提供文献搜索和文章检索服务，并维持一个人口学图书馆和一个庞大的社会科学数据档案。重组后的统计核心提供统计咨询，组织信息丰富的研讨会和研讨会，并确保PRI在统计软件中的流通。PRI的发展基础设施利用新的教师领导层来提供种子资助计划、工作组机会和同行审查能力，所有这些都是针对初级教师的。