R24 Population Center Grant

描述(申请人提供)：布朗大学人口研究 和培训中心(PSTC)提交此NICHD R24的申请 人口中心赠款，要求支付349,604美元的直接费用 五年来的第一年。R24人口中心计划是 P30 PSTC自1991年以来一直持有的人口中心赠款。此请求是 根据科学计划的质量及其对该领域的影响， 拟议基础设施计划、研究的质量和潜在影响 关键人员的能力、机构承诺和环境，以及 与以下目标相关的拟议基础设施方案的成本效益 DBSB。拟议的支助水平是根据PSTC增加的 研究活动的速度，出版的书籍和论文以及 外部研究资金，以及布朗承诺的资源水平 从大学到中心。PSTC提出了三个研究支持核心 (行政、计算服务和信息)，一个发展 基础设施核心，以及与 摩根州立大学城市研究所。与人口相关 布朗大学的研究活动得益于强大而连贯的 每个关键学科的研究人员小组与 灵活的机构边界，允许并鼓励跨 纪律分界线。事实是，有足够的人口- 各学科的相关研究人员确保PSTC 研究人员在最高层讨论和整合方法论方法 适当水平，确保初级科研人员和研究生 与人口有关的利益在各自的学科中都有很好的基础。 这种学科间和学科内力量的结合很容易 在我们用来总结研究的五个创新的“想法核心”中很明显 在PSTC的活动。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant):The Brown University Population Studies and Training Center (PSTC) submits this application for an NICHD R24 Population Center grant with a request for $349,604 in direct costs for the first of five-years. The R24 Population Center program is the successor to the P30 Population Center grant that the PSTC has held since 1991. This request is based on the quality of the scientific program and its impact on the field, quality and potential impact of proposed infrastructure program, research competence of key personnel, institutional commitment and environment, and cost-efficiency of proposed infrastructure program in relation to the goals of the DBSB. The proposed level of support is based upon the PSTC's increased pace of research activity, as evidenced by published books and papers and external research funding, and the level of resources committed by Brown University to the Center. The PSTC proposes three research support cores (administration, computing services and information), a developmental infrastructure core, and a cooperative infrastructure core partnering with the Institute of Urban Research at Morgan State University. Population-related research activity at Brown benefits from the presence of strong and coherent groups of researchers within each of the key disciplines in combination with flexible institutional boundaries that permit and encourage interaction across disciplinary lines. The fact that there are critical masses of population- related researchers within each of the disciplines ensures that PSTC researchers discuss and incorporate methodological approaches at the highest appropriate level and ensures that junior researchers and graduate students with population interests are well grounded in their respective disciplines. This combinations of inter- and intra- disciplinary strength is readily evident in the five innovative "idea cores" that we use to summarize research activities at the PSTC.