Population Research Center

描述（由申请人提供）：得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校人口研究中心（PRC）请求NICHD为其人口基础设施项目提供第9轮支持。持续的支持将有助于中国利用校外和大学资源，提供优秀的资源，并维持一个充满活力的跨学科文化，旨在促进其教职员工之间的人口相关研究的最高水平。中华人民共和国的具体目标是围绕这两个目标组织的。这些目标是：1）指导年轻的人口科学家，促进更高级的教师的科学发展; 2）培养一个环境，包括专题工作组和棕色袋系列，以促进知识交流，思想发展和跨学科研究;和3）提供高质量和高效的管理和计算资源，以开发和进行大规模的人口研究。 中国的研究人员以其在四个相互交叉和加强的主题领域的研究而闻名，他们的科学贡献是多方面的和开创性的。这些领域是：健康差距;育儿、伙伴关系和人类发展;教育不平等和机会;社会经济不平等和工作。 请求提供R24支持，以继续支持两个主要基础设施核心和一个开发核心。在上一个供资周期，这些核心提供了必要的机构基础，导致许多年轻科学家的成功发展，使中国与大学合作招募优秀的教师，导致了良好的记录granitarian，促进了一系列跨学科的研究项目，并在一些重要的人口问题上产生了重大的科学进展。这些核心是：1）管理核心; 2）计算服务核心; 3）开发核心。 中国现在拥有最大的赠款组合，联邦赠款总额超过4000万美元。 赠款支持，其中3000万美元来自NIH。R24的持续支持将使中国继续其作为一个杰出中心的发展轨迹，在其中开发，支持和维持创新的人口研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Population Research Center (PRC) of the University of Texas at Austin requests a 9th round of NICHD support for its population infrastructure program. Continued support will help the PRC leverage extramural and university resources to provide outstanding resources and sustain a dynamic interdisciplinary culture geared toward facilitating the highest level of population-related research among its faculty members. The PRC's specific aims are organized around these two goals. These aims are: 1) Mentoring junior population scientists and enhancing the scientific development of more senior faculty; 2) Fostering an environment that includes topical working groups and a brown bag series to promote intellectual exchange, Idea development, and interdisciplinary research; and 3) Providing high quality and efficient administration and computing resources necessary to develop and conduct large-scale population research. PRC researchers are especially renowned for their research in four over-lapping and reinforcing thematic areas, and, their scientific contributions are many and path breaking. These areas are: Health Disparities; Parenting, Partnering and Human Development; Educational Inequality and Opportunity; and Socioeconomic Inequality and Work. R24 support is requested for continued support of two major infrastructure cores and a development core. In the prior funding cycle, these cores provided the necessary institutional base that led to the successful development of many junior scientists, allowed the PRC to partner with the University in recruiting outstanding faculty, resulted in an excellent record of grantsmanship, fostered an array of interdisciplinary research projects, and produced major scientific advances on a number of important population issues. The cores are: 1) the Administration Core; 2) the Computing Services Core, and 3) the Development Core. The PRC now has its largest grant portfolio with over $40 million dollars in total federal grant support, of which $30 million is from NIH. Continued R24 support will enable the PRC to continue its trajectory as an outstanding center in which innovative population research is developed, supported, and sustained.