Center for Social and Demographic Analysis at the University at Albany, SUNY

描述（由申请人提供）：纽约州立大学奥尔巴尼分校的社会和人口分析中心（CSDA）正在申请2012-2017年期间人口研究基础设施奖的延续。过去的奖励加上大学的高度支持，使CSDA能够为来自五个学院和11个系的47名人口研究人员组成的富有成效和跨学科小组提供智力家园。一项为期五年的奖励将使该中心能够：推进其人口科学研究议程，其标志性主题是弱势群体和空间不平等；培养众多年轻研究人员的智力和专业发展；并继续支持和加强人口研究活动和其成员之间的知识分子社区。的研究

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Center for Social and Demographic Analysis (CSDA) at the University at Albany, SUNY is applying for a continuation of its Population-Research Infrastructure Award for the period 2012-2017. Past awards, in combination with high levels of support from the University, have enabled CSDA to provide an intellectual home to a productive and interdisciplinary group of 47 population researchers, drawn from five Colleges and 11 Departments. A five-year award will allow the Center to: advance its research agenda in population science that bears its signature themes of vulnerable populations and spatial inequalities; foster the intellectual and professional development of its many young researchers; and continue to support and strengthen population-research activities and intellectual community among its associates. The research of CSDA's associates advances population and public health science by addressing critical questions about 1. Health, health disparities and biodemography, 2. Life Course transitions, 3. Immigration and migration, and 4. Spatial demography. Our associates also add to knowledge through their data-collection efforts and methodological innovations. Research in these areas is facilitated by three research infrastructural cores: Administrative, Computer and Data Services, and Developmental Infrastructure. These cores provide cost effective services to CSDA associates that are not available to University at Albany faculty. The proposed infrastructure award will allow us to take full advantage of the University at Albany's plan to hire 170 faculty over the next five years and reorganize our research-support cores to more efficiently serve our associates. In particular, we plan to eliminate the public infrastructure core, moving those contributions that have proven useful to CSDA associates to the other cores and begin developing a comprehensive statistical initiative. CSDA is increasingly characterized by strengths in health and biodemography and a general focus on the wellbeing of children; it has expanded the breadth of faculty to be more interdisciplinary.