Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and the Life Course

描述（由申请人提供）：普渡大学老龄化与生命历程研究中心寻求跨学科、博士前研究培训项目的支持。拟议的机构国家研究服务奖（NRSA）旨在加强普渡大学最近的机构发展，加强跨学科的研究生教育和老龄化和生命历程的培训。该计划通过强调跨学科的方法来加强老年学的研究生教育和培训，并专注于衰老的过程。我们的长期目标是帮助人们更多地关注生命历程和时间。以及了解衰老过程的环境背景。具体目标包括：1。招募，培训和指导各种各样的博士预科学生，使他们在老龄化领域取得成功的研究事业。2. 运用老年学的基本原理（如变化的多面性、生命历程分析），加强老龄问题的跨学科研究生教育。3. 通过专业发展和指导，促进对老龄化和生命历程的负责任的研究。4. 使博士预科学生能够从事与其专业知识相关的有意义的跨学科活动。实现培训目标的具体机制包括：跨学科课程、研究研讨会、系列研讨会、培训咨询委员会、参加夏季强化课程、少数民族学生招募以及负责任的研究行为培训。培训计划的成功与否将由每个具体目标的多个绩效指标来衡量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Center on Aging and the Life Course at Purdue University seeks support for an interdisciplinary, pre- doctoral research training program. The proposed institutional National Research Service Award (NRSA) is designed to build upon recent institutional developments at Purdue University by strengthening interdisciplinary graduate education and training on aging and the life course. The program enhances graduate education and training in gerontology by emphasizing an approach to the subject that is interdisciplinary in nature and focuses on the process of aging. Our long-term aim is to help infuse more attention to life course processes, timing.and environmental context for understanding the aging process. Specific aims include: 1. To recruit, train, and mentor a diverse array of pre-doctoral students for sucessful research careers in aging. 2. To enhance interdisciplinary graduate education on aging using the essential principles of gerontology (e.g., multifaceted aspects of change, life course analysis). 3. To foster responsible conduct of research on aging and the life course through professional development and mentoring. 4. To equip pre-doctoral studetns to engage in meaningful interdisciplinary initiatives related to their disciplinary expertise. Specific mechanisms to achieve the training aims include: interdisciplinary curriculum, research seminar, symposium series, Training Advisory Board, participation in summer intensive courses, minority student recruitment, and training in the responsible conduct of research. The success of the traiing program will be measured by multiple performance indicators for each specific aim. RELEVANCE: The project will enhance the training of doctoral students interested in aging and public health by emphasizing a long-term and interdisciplinary view of the aging process. Our aim is to augment the professional development of these students to become effective members of interdisciplinary research teams.