MARYLAND POPULATION RESEARCH CENTER

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请要求支持继续向马里兰州大学（UMD）的马里兰州人口研究中心（MPRC）颁发人口研究基础设施奖。MPRC成立于1988年，在社会学，成为一个跨学科的中心在2000年，并获得了第一个R24基础设施奖在2002年。该奖项扩大了中心的规模，增加了外部资助项目的数量，并促进了跨学科的交流。第一个R24奖支持的活动对MPRC同事，特别是年轻教师的研究环境产生了重大影响。NIH的R 03资助机制是有针对性的，并导致资助的研究人员数量大幅增加。UMD教务长引用MPRC在发展年轻教师和促进跨学科团体方面的成功，宣布“我们强烈建议该计划可能成为其他校园努力的典范。“MPRC现在有55名科学家从事创新研究，是人类学，犯罪学，经济学，地理学，人类发展，公共卫生，公共政策，社会学和调查方法教师的知识之家。中心附属机构的研究计划通过解决有关时间使用和儿童发展和健康的问题来促进公共卫生;社会和经济不平等及其对健康和健康差距的影响;以及家庭变化和亚组变化及其与健康家庭的关系。中心的同事还通过为人口研究提供新的数据和方法来促进公共卫生。新的奖项将有助于支持MPRC的行政，计算，信息和发展基础设施核心。核心的使命是满足人口科学家的需求并营造跨学科环境。MPRC的新信息核心将扩大基于网络的工具的部署，以加强中心的活动，并为学者提供管理研究合作的有效手段。该奖项将资助针对研究时间使用、犯罪和人口、定性方法和空间分析的合作者团体的新活动。这些跨学科小组是吸引相关领域的科学家从事人口科学和增加跨学科交流的关键因素。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests support for continuation of the Population Research Infrastructure Award to the Maryland Population Research Center (MPRC) at the University of Maryland (UMD). MPRC was founded in 1988 in Sociology, became an interdisciplinary center in 2000 and received its first R24 Infrastructure Award in 2002. The award enabled an expansion in the size of the center, the number of externally funded projects, and fostered interdisciplinary exchange. The activities supported by the first R24 Award had major impact on the research environment for MPRC associates, especially for young faculty. The R03 mechanism for NIH funding was targeted and led to a substantial increase in the number of researchers funded. The UMD Provost, citing MPRC's success at developing young faculty and promoting interdisciplinary groups, declared "we strongly recommend that this program potentially serve as a model for other Campus efforts." MPRC now has 55 scientists engaged in innovative research, and is the intellectual home for faculty in anthropology, criminology, economics, geography, human development, public health, public policy, sociology, and survey methods. The research program of Center affiliates advances public health by addressing questions about time use and childhood development and health; social and economic inequality and its impact on heath and health disparities; and about family change and subgroup variation and its relation to healthy families. Center associates also advance public health by contributing new data and methods for population research. The new award will help support MPRC's Administrative, Computing, Information, and Developmental Infrastructure Cores. The Cores' mission is to meet the needs of population scientists and to foster an interdisciplinary environment. MPRC's new Information Core will expand the deployment of web-based tools to enhance Center activities and to provide scholars effective means of managing research collaborations. The award will fund new activities aimed at groups of collaborators studying time use, crime and population, qualitative methods and spatial analysis. These interdisciplinary groups are a key element in attracting scientists from allied fields to the population sciences and in increasing interdisciplinary exchange.