Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and the Life Course

描述（由申请人提供）：普渡大学老龄化和生命历程中心寻求跨学科的博士前研究培训计划的支持。拟议的机构国家研究服务奖（NRSA）旨在通过加强跨学科的研究生教育和老龄化和生命过程的培训，建立在普渡大学最近的机构发展。该计划通过强调跨学科性质的主题方法，并侧重于衰老过程，加强了老年学的研究生教育和培训。我们的长期目标是帮助注入更多的关注生命过程的过程，时间和环境背景了解老化过程。具体目标包括：1.招募，培训和指导各种各样的博士前学生在老龄化方面的成功研究事业。2.利用老年学的基本原则（例如，变化的多方面，生命历程分析）。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.使博士前学生能够从事与其学科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、系列专题讨论会、培训咨询委员会、参加暑期强化课程、招收少数民族学生以及负责任地开展研究方面的培训。培训计划的成功将通过每个特定目标的多个绩效指标来衡量。 相关性：该项目将通过强调对老龄化过程的长期和跨学科观点，加强对老龄化和公共卫生感兴趣的博士生的培训。我们的目标是加强这些学生的专业发展，成为跨学科研究团队的有效成员。

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.