Center for Family and Demographic Research

描述（由申请人提供）：鲍灵格林州立大学（BGSU）的家庭与人口研究中心（CFDR）正在响应RFA HD-00-022的R24人口研究基础设施项目。我们要求每年提供大约25万美元，以支持一个新成立的中心，该中心有强有力的机构支持，并就儿童、青少年和家庭的健康、发展和安全开展创新的跨学科研究。我们将人口学与广泛的社会科学观点相结合，以确定人口事件和趋势背后的机制。CFDR教师的优势涉及青少年发展和成年初期、移民、健康、发病率和死亡率以及家庭和家庭的社会人口统计等主题。CFDR由来自多个学科的精力充沛、研究活跃的教师组成。CFDR正处于增长模式，强劲的师资招聘和成功获得联邦资金的势头强劲。在NICHD人口研究基础设施项目仅两年的支持下，CFDR教师的资助组合增加了一倍，并做出了重大的研究贡献。我们现在正处于关键阶段，来自NIH的资金将使我们能够继续提供服务，以产生和支持新的研究和科学知识，否则这是不可能的。我们的研究目标是提高我们四个中心领域（青少年发展、移民、健康、发病率和死亡率以及家庭和家庭的社会人口学）的研究生产力，促进内部和跨学科研究，并增加外部研究资金。我们将通过投资于我们的研究支持和发展核心来实现这些目标。我们的研究支持核心侧重于智力领导和提供直接的，实际的研究援助。我们的目标是通过举办研讨会和工作坊来改善我们的研究环境；加强数据的获取和使用；提供方案编制和技术援助；促进研究成果的传播；进行设备投资，协调拨款准备和提交服务。我们的教师发展核心的使命是提供教师研究种子奖，以促进新的创新工作。NIH的支持将通过促进教师之间的跨学科交流、提高资源获取效率、促进合作努力和提高研究生产力，为CFDR创造新的研究机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Center for Family and Demographic Research (CFDR) at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) is responding to RFA HD-00-022 for the R24 Population Research Infrastructure Program. We are requesting approximately $250,000 per year to support a newly emerging center that has strong institutional support and generates innovative and interdisciplinary research on the health, development and security of children, adolescents and families. We integrate demography with broad social scientific perspectives to identify mechanisms underlying demographic events and trends. The CFDR faculty's strengths address themes of adolescent development and emerging adulthood, immigration, health, morbidity and mortality, and social demography of families and households. The CFDR consists of a highly energized, research-active faculty from several disciplines. The CFDR is in a growth mode with strong momentum from strong faculty hires and success in obtaining federal funding. With only two years of support from the NICHD Population Research Infrastructure Program, CFDR faculty have doubled their grant portfolio and made significant research contributions. We are now at a pivotal stage in which funds from NIH would allow us to continue to provide services that would generate and support new research and scientific knowledge that would not otherwise be possible. Our research goals are to increase research productivity in our four central domains (adolescent development, immigration, health, morbidity and mortality, and social demography of families and households), promote intra- and interdisciplinary research, and increase external funding for research. We will achieve these goals by investing in our Research Support and Developmental Cores. Our Research Support Core focuses on intellectual leadership and providing direct, practical research assistance. We aim to improve our research environment by hosting seminars and workshops; enhancing access to and use of data; offering programming and technical assistance; facilitating dissemination of research; making equipment investments, and coordinating services for grant preparation and submission. The mission of our Faculty Development core is to provide faculty research seed awards to promote new innovative work. Support from NIH will create new research opportunities for the CFDR by fostering interdisciplinary exchanges among faculty, generating efficiencies in access to resources, promoting collaborative efforts, and enhancing research productivity.