Training Program in Population Studies

此修订后的申请要求从儿童健康和人类发展（NICHD）的国家研究所人口研究五年的培训补助金（PRC）的得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校（UT）。我们提出的培训计划旨在扩大和学术上拓宽我们以前的五个博士前培训生计划，以八个博士前培训和两个博士后奖学金，由 社会学、人类生态学和经济学系。我们的博士前培训计划的拟议扩展旨在建立在我们最近的增长和生产力作为一个中心，最好的证明是：a）非常热烈的反应，我们最近的R24中心赠款建议; B）赠款组合，这是迄今为止，在中国历史上最大的; c）已经是中国的积极和富有成效的成员的新教师的显着数量; d）我们在期刊文章，书籍，章节和会议演示方面的研究生产力;以及e）我们最近在全国范围内将我们的毕业生置于领先的学术，博士后和研究职位方面取得的重大成功。事实上，在2001-2002学年，我们已经把一些毕业生在非常令人印象深刻的学术和博士后职位在全国各地。新增两名博士后 学员也是符合我们最近的增长和生产力作为一个中心，强大的一套资助项目的特点，我们的五个专题研究领域，我们在接待拉丁美洲博士后研究人员和访问美国学者近年来的成功，我们最近成功地招募我们领先的宗教，家庭和健康领域的博士后候选人，使用的资金从UT学院的文科和中华人民共和国。我们清楚地 看到我们中心的潜力，以支持我们的五个研究领域的博士后研究员在未来五年。我们的培训计划的扩大反映了人口研究在中国和整个学科越来越多的跨学科性质。中国目前的特点是一个非常富有成效和学术广泛的研究人员群体，最大的集中在社会学，人类生态学， 经济学，按照这个顺序。

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.