Development Core

发展核心摘要-发展核心（DC）是增长的引擎，跨学科 综合、扩大人口科学的范围，并建立一种机制， 隶属于杜克人口研究中心（DPRC）的学者的生产力。在过去的五年里， DC在早期职业学者身上进行了大量投资，以支持他们的 专业发展。DC在传统的人口科学家和学者之间建立了桥梁 人口学和人口科学为他们提供了新的框架， 测量、分类和数据收集。它投资于新颖的人口科学工作， 学者们开发了新的数据分析计算方法。开展的活动包括 竞争性地分配种子基金，以测试创新的想法，这将导致更大的人口研究工作， 动态研究;旨在扩大DPRC核心智力优势的有针对性的活动;以及每周 举办系列研讨会，以促进合作、接触新思想和传播研究成果。超过 未来五年，DPRC的目标是继续并扩大对早期职业学者的投资，以支持 从长远来看，该委员会将继续开展一系列成功的活动， 主要研究领域（PRA）主席。这项投资将注入PRA（终身基金会） 健康和相互关联的社会系统和人口健康）与能源，促进新的合作， 提高严谨性和影响力，并为校园内外的激动人心的，创新的 research.

Development Core Abstract -- The Development Core (DC) is the engine for growth, interdisciplinary integration, expansion of the boundaries of population sciences and a mechanism to increase impact and productivity of the scholars affiliated with the Duke Population Research Center (DPRC). In the past five years, the DC has made significant investments in early career scholars in a way that has supported their professional development. The DC has built bridges between traditional population scientists and scholars from allied fields for whom demography and the population sciences provide new frameworks for measurement, classification and data collection. It has invested in novel population science work helping scholars develop new computational approaches to data analytics. Activities implemented have included competitively allocated seed funds to test innovative ideas that will lead to larger research efforts in population dynamics research; targeted activities aimed at expanding DPRC’s core intellectual strengths; and a weekly seminar series to promote collaboration, exposure to new ideas, and dissemination of research findings. Over the next five years, DPRC aims to continue and expand its investment in early career scholars to support DPRC over the long run and to expand a successful array of activities by adding new initiatives promoted by proposed Primary Research Area (PRA) Chairs. This investment will infuse PRAs (Foundations of Lifelong Health and Interconnected Social Systems and Population Health) with energy, foster new collaborations, improve rigor and impact, and provide the connective tissue across campus and beyond for exciting, innovative research.