Population Research Center

描述(由申请人提供)：德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的人口研究中心(中国)请求NICHD为其人口基础设施项目提供第8轮支持。持续的支持将帮助中国保持其杰出学术研究的传统，指导初级科学家，并发展创新的合作和跨学科研究。中华人民共和国为最高水平的人口研究提供必要的智力和基础设施资源。这些共有的基础设施资源包括最先进的管理、计算和程序开发资源，这些资源既支持个人研究议程，也支持合作研究议程。来自全校14个系的63名研究人员得到了积极的合作者和导师、专题工作组和鼓励智力交流和想法发展的布朗布袋系列的支持，并提供了专门的空间来鼓励正式和非正式的沟通和开展研究。中国的研究人员尤其以五个重叠和加强的专题领域的研究而闻名：健康差距；宗教和人口过程；儿童、青年和家庭：教育和向成人的过渡；以及拉丁美洲和边境人口统计学。正如我们在本申请中所描述的，中国的开发、管理、计算和信息核心在发展和维持这些领域和其他领域的杰出研究方面发挥着基础性作用。发展核心是一个特别重要的组成部分，它赞助跨学科工作小组、非常成功的以初级研究人员为重点的提案训练营以及启动创新合作项目的种子赠款。管理和计算核心也是促进研究创新的关键组成部分。在短期内，这些核心支持制作赠款申请；及时开发、共享和传播项目和公共使用数据文件；开发安全的数据飞地和电子文件共享；以及科学出版物的项目分析和开发。从长远来看，这些核心为以下方面提供了必要的制度基础：在德克萨斯大学的人口科学家中建立一个强大的科学社区；招聘、留住和培养一支优秀的人口科学家队伍；并制定充分利用大规模人口科学研究所需的设施和尖端技术的研究计划。中国现在拥有最大的赠款组合，联邦拨款总额超过2700万美元，其中2350万美元来自美国国立卫生研究院。持续的R24支持将使中国继续其强劲的上升轨道，成为发展、支持和维持创新人口研究的杰出中心。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Population Research Center (PRC) at the University of Texas at Austin requests an 8th round of NICHD support for its population infrastructure program. Continued support will help the PRC maintain its tradition of outstanding scholarship, mentoring junior scientists, and developing innovative collaborative and interdisciplinary research. The PRC provides the intellectual and infrastructural resources necessary for the highest level of population research. Those infrastructural resources held in common include state-of-the-art administrative, computing, and program development resources which support both individual and collaborative research agendas. Hailing from 14 departments across the university, 63 researchers are supported by active collaborators and mentors, topical working groups and a brownbag series to encourage intellectual exchange and idea development, and dedicated space to encourage formal and informal communication and to conduct research. PRC researchers are especially renowned for their research in five over-lapping and reinforcing thematic areas: Health Disparities; Religion and Demographic Processes; Children, Youth and Families: Education and the Transition to Adulthood; and Latin American and Border Demography. As we describe in this application, the PRC's Development, Administration, and Computing and Information cores play fundamental roles in developing and sustaining outstanding research in these and other areas. The Development Core is an especially vital component which sponsors interdisciplinary working groups, the highly successful proposal boot camp focused on junior researchers, and seed grants to launch innovative collaborative projects. The administration and computing cores are also critical components in facilitating research innovation. In the short term, these cores support the production of grant applications; the timely development, sharing, and dissemination of project and public use data files; the development of secure data enclaves and electronic file sharing; and project analysis and development of scientific publications. Over the long term, these cores provide the necessary institutional base to: build a strong scientific community among population scientists at UT; recruit, retain, and develop a cadre of outstanding population scientists; and develop research programs that take full advantage of the facilities and sophisticated technologies necessary for large-scale studies in the population sciences. The PRC now has its largest grant portfolio with over $27 million dollars in total federal grant support, of which $23.5 million is from NIH. Continued R24 support will enable the PRC to continue its strong upward trajectory as an outstanding center in which innovative population research is developed, supported and sustained.