The University of Colorado Population Center

为了响应人口研究基础设施计划(R24)的RFA-HD-09-004，科罗拉多大学博尔德人口中心(CUPC)要求NICHD为该中心的基础设施支持提供五年资金。在过去四年NICHD为不断上升的项目提供的短期支持奖的资助下，该中心在教职附属机构的规模和质量、外部资助的数量以及在人口研究中的专业存在和学术影响力方面取得了实质性进展。利用新的R24资金，我们建议通过创新研究、与科罗拉多大学内部以及其他大学和国家的跨学科合作关系、利用大学管理部门的支持、指导和支持一批有前途的新教师、人口统计研究和培训方面的国际领先地位以及技术更新来巩固这些成功。为了实现这些目标，该应用程序描述了该中心的三个标志性主题：(1)健康和死亡率；(2)移民和人口再分布；(3)环境人口学。在这些主题方面取得了显著的学术进展，并承诺将有更多进展，与此同时，一座耗资1400万美元的跨学科社会科学研究新大楼破土动工。CuPC将于2010年9月搬进大楼。 该中心需要五个基础设施核心：行政核心将为所有附属机构提供关键服务，包括研究项目的秘书、书目和赠款管理支持。统计和计算核心将为处理大型和复杂数据集提供一流的计算和技术环境，并利用附属专门知识进行统计培训和咨询。信息核心将扩大附属机构获取信息的途径，提高对中心活动的认识，并传播研究成果。发展核心将提供关键的种子奖，允许研究人员--特别是初级附属机构--解决更大、更困难、以前难以解决的研究问题。公共基础设施核心将与人口参考局合作，帮助向公众传播全国各地人口中心的研究。

In response to RFA-HD-09-004 for the Population Research Infrastructure Program (R24), the University of Colorado at Boulder Population Center (CUPC) requests five years of funding from NICHD for Infrastructure support of the center. With funding over the last four years from an NICHD Short-term Support for Rising Programs award, the center made substantial progress in size and quality of the faculty affiliates, number of external grants, and professional presence and scholarly influence in population research. With new R24 funding, we propose to build on these successes through innovative research; collaborative ties to across disciplines within the University of Colorado and across other universities and nations; leveraged support from the university administration; mentoring and support for a group of promising new faculty; international leadership in demographic research and training; and updating of technology. Toward these goals, the application describes the three signature themes of the center: (1) health and mortality; (2) migration and population redistribution; and (3) environmental demography. The notable intellectual progress made on these themes and the promise of more to come coincide with the ground breaking of a new $14 million building for interdisciplinary social science research. CUPC will move into the building in September 2010. The center requests five infrastructure cores: The Administrative Core will provide crucial services to all affiliates, including secretarial, bibliographic, and grants management support for research projects. The Statistics and Computing Core will support a first-rate computing and technology environment for handling large and complex data sets and make use of affiliate expertise for statistical training and consultation. The information Core will broaden access to information for affiliates, increase awareness of center activities, and disseminate research findings. The Developmental Core will provide crucial seed awards to allow researchers - particularly junior affiliates - to address larger, more difficult, previously intractable research problems. The Public Infrastructure Core, in collaboration with the Population Reference Bureau, will help disseminate research of population centers across the country to the public.