Population Research Center

描述(由申请者提供)：德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校人口研究中心(中国)请求NICHD为其人口基础设施项目提供第9轮支持。持续的支持将帮助中国利用校外和大学资源提供出色的资源，并保持充满活力的跨学科文化，以促进其教职员工进行与人口相关的最高水平的研究。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)指导初级人口科学家，促进更多高级教员的科学发展；2)营造一个包括专题工作组和棕色袋子系列的环境，以促进智力交流、思想发展和跨学科研究；以及3)提供发展和开展大规模人口研究所需的高质量和高效率的管理和计算资源。 中国研究人员尤其以在四个重叠和强化主题领域的研究而闻名，他们的科学贡献是多和开创性的。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；以及社会经济不平等和工作。 请提供R24支助，以继续支助两个主要基础设施核心和一个发展核心。在之前的资助周期中，这些核心提供了必要的制度基础，导致了许多初级科学家的成功发展，使中国能够与大学合作招聘优秀的教师，创造了出色的资质记录，促进了一系列跨学科研究项目，并在许多重要的人口问题上取得了重大科学进展。核心是：1)管理核心；2)计算服务核心；3)开发核心。 中国现在拥有其最大的赠款组合，联邦政府拨款总额超过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能够继续其作为发展、支持和持续创新人口研究的杰出中心的轨迹。

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.