Training Program in Population Studies

这项修订后的申请要求从美国国家儿童健康与人类发展研究所(NICHD)向德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校(UT)人口研究中心(PRC)提供为期五年的人口研究培训补助金。我们提出的培训计划旨在扩大和扩大我们先前的计划，即从5名博士前实习生增加到8个博士前实习生和2个博士后奖学金，由 社会学系、人类生态学系和经济系。我们博士前培训计划的拟议扩展旨在建立在我们作为一个中心最近的增长和生产力的基础上，最好的证明是：a)对我们最近的R24中心拨款提案反应非常热烈；b)资助组合是迄今为止中国历史上最大的；c)大量新的教职员工已经是中国活跃和富有成效的成员； D)我们在期刊文章、书籍、章节和会议演讲方面的研究效率；以及e)我们最近在将我们的毕业生安置在全国领先的学术、博士后和研究岗位上取得了重大成功。事实上，在2001-2002学年，我们在全国各地安排了一些毕业生担任非常令人印象深刻的学术和博士后职位。拟增设两名博士后 受训人员与我们最近作为一个中心的增长和生产力是一致的，我们五个主题研究领域的每个领域都有强大的资助项目，我们近年来成功地接待了拉丁美洲博士后研究人员和美国访问学者，我们最近利用德克萨斯大学文学院和中国的资金成功地招聘了我们在宗教、家庭和卫生领域的领先博士后候选人。我们显然 看看我们中心在未来五年内支持我们五个研究领域的博士后研究员的潜力。我们培训计划的扩大反映了中国人口研究和整个学科越来越多的跨学科性质。中国目前的特点是研究人员非常多产和学术广泛的群体，最集中在社会学，人类生态和 经济学，按这个顺序排列。

This revised application requests a five-year Training Grant in Population Studies from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to the Population Research Center (PRC) of the University of Texas at Austin (UT). The training program we propose seeks to enlarge and academically broaden our previous program of five pre-doctoral trainees to eight pre-doctoral traineeships and two post-doctoral fellowships, shared between the Departments of Sociology, Human Ecology, and Economics. The proposed expansion of our pre-doctoral training program aims to build upon our recent growth and productivity as a Center, as best evidenced by: a) the very enthusiastic response to our recent R24 center grant proposal; b) a grant portfolio that is, by far, the largest in PRC history; c) the significant number of new faculty members who are already active and productive members of the PRC; d) our research productivity in terms of journal articles, books, chapters, and conference presentations; and e) our recent substantial successes in placing our graduates in leading academic, postdoctoral, and research positions throughout the country. Indeed, over the 2001-2002 academic year, we have placed a number of graduates in very impressive academic and post-doctoral positions around the country. The proposed addition of two postdoctoral trainees is also consistent with our recent growth and productivity as a Center, the strong set of funded projects characterizing each of our five thematic research areas, our success in hosting Latin American postdoctoral researchers and visiting U.S. scholars in recent years, and our very recent success in recruiting our leading postdoctoral candidate in the Religion, Families, and Health area, using funds from the UT College of Liberal Arts and the PRC. We clearly see the potential of our Center to support postdoctoral fellows in each of our five research areas over the next five years. The broadening of our training program reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of population research at the PRC and throughout the discipline. The PRC is currently characterized by a very productive and academically broad group of researchers, with the greatest concentration in the Departments of Sociology, Human Ecology, and Economics, in that order.