Training Program in Population Studies

描述(由申请人提供)：德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校(UT)人口研究中心(中国)要求第六次续签其T32 NICHD人口研究培训助学金。中国有出色的研究和培训计划，解决了一系列与健康有关的问题。其重点特别集中在五个主题领域：健康差距、儿童、家庭和青年、宗教和家庭、教育和成人过渡以及拉丁美洲人口统计。在我们最近的增长和巨大生产力的基础上，拟议的培训计划继续寻求扩大和扩大我们之前的计划，我们要求社会学系和人类生态系共享六名博士后实习生和两名博士后实习生。我们的要求是适度扩大我们目前的计划，即5名博士后和1名博士后实习生。中国提供了一个出色的培训环境，中心的成就体现在：a)我们最近更新的R24中心拨款反应非常热烈；b)资助组合是迄今为止中国历史上最大的；c)大量活跃和富有成效的新教职员工；d)我们在期刊文章、书籍、章节和会议演讲方面的研究效率；e)培训计划成功地招聘了少数族裔教师和学生；f)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。建议增加第二名博士后实习生也符合我们五个专题研究领域中每个领域都有强大的资助项目，以及我们在过去五年中接待和安置七名博士后学者的重大成功。中国在未来五年继续支持和安置博士后研究员的潜力是突出的。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。中国拥有一批卓有成效、学术广泛的研究人员，其中社会学系和人类生态系的工作最为集中，但也有许多其他校园单位的教职员工参与其中。中国的学生人才是广泛和多样化的，目前有72名博士前实习生参加了中国的研究生培训计划。这份申请概述了培训计划的结构，包括课程和道德培训，以及我们计划在中国在少数民族学者专业发展和培训方面的杰出记录的基础上再接再厉。总而言之，我们请求支持，以继续成功地服务于中国培训代表团，培养出训练有素、道德高尚的人口研究人员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Population Research Center (PRC) of the University of Texas at Austin (UT) requests a 6th renewal of its T32 NICHD Training Grant in Population Studies. The PRC has outstanding research and training programs, addressing a broad array of health-related issues. Its focus falls particularly in five thematic areas: Health Disparities, Children, Families and Youth, Religion and Families, Education and the Transition to Adulthood, and Latin American Demography. Building on our recent growth and tremendous productivity, the proposed training program continues to seek to enlarge and academically broaden our previous program, and we request six pre-doctoral trainees and two post-doctoral trainees to be shared between the Departments of Sociology and Human Ecology. Our request is a modest expansion of our current program of 5 pre-doctoral and 1 post-doctoral trainees. The PRC offers an outstanding training environment, and the center's accomplishments are evidenced by: a) the very enthusiastic response to our recent R24 center grant renewal; b) a grant portfolio that is, by far, the largest in PRC history; c) the significant number of new faculty members who are active and productive members; d) our research productivity in terms of journal articles, books, chapters, and conference presentations; e) the training program's success in recruiting minority faculty and students, and f) our recent substantial successes in placing our graduates in leading academic, postdoctoral, and research positions throughout the country. The proposed addition of a second postdoctoral trainee is also consistent with the strong set of funded projects characterizing each of our five thematic research areas, and our substantial successes in hosting and placing seven postdoctoral scholars over the past five years. The potential of the PRC to continue to support and place postdoctoral fellows over the next five years is outstanding. The broadening of our training program reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of population research at the PRC and throughout the discipline. The PRC has a very productive and academically broad group of researchers, with the greatest concentration in the Departments of Sociology and Human Ecology, in that order, but also enjoys strong faculty participation from a number of other campus units. The student talent at the PRC is extensive and diverse, with a current set of 72 pre-doctoral trainees participating in the PRC's graduate training program. This application outlines the structure of the training program, including coursework and ethics training, and our plans to build on the PRC's outstanding record in the professional development and training of minority scholars. In sum, we request support to continue our success in serving the PRC training mission to generate highly trained, and highly ethical, researchers in Population Studies.