The University of Colorado Population Center

作为对人口研究基础设施项目（R24）RFA-HD-09-004的回应，位于博尔德的科罗拉多大学人口中心（CUPC）要求NICHD提供五年的资金，用于该中心的基础设施支持。在过去四年中，该中心从NICHD短期支持上升计划奖中获得资金，在教师附属机构的规模和质量，外部赠款数量以及人口研究的专业存在和学术影响力方面取得了实质性进展。有了新的R24资金，我们建议通过创新研究建立在这些成功的基础上;与科罗拉多大学和其他大学和国家的跨学科合作关系;从大学管理部门获得杠杆支持;指导和支持一群有前途的新教师;人口研究和培训的国际领导地位;和技术更新。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）环境人口统计学。在这些主题上取得的显着的智力进步和未来的承诺与一个新的1400万美元的跨学科社会科学研究大楼的破土动工相吻合。CUPC将于2010年9月迁入大楼。 该中心要求五个基础设施核心：行政核心将为所有附属机构提供关键服务，包括秘书，书目和研究项目的赠款管理支持。统计和计算核心将支持一流的计算和技术环境，以处理大型和复杂的数据集，并利用附属机构的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渠道，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，使研究人员-特别是初级分支机构-解决更大，更困难，以前棘手的研究问题。公共基础设施核心与人口资料局合作，将帮助向公众传播全国人口中心的研究。

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.