The University of Colorado Population Center

描述（由申请人提供）：根据RFA-HD-09-004人口研究基础设施项目（R24），科罗拉多大学博尔德人口中心（CUPC）向NICHD申请五年的资金，用于该中心的基础设施支持。在过去四年中，该中心获得了NICHD对新兴项目短期支持奖的资助，在师资队伍的规模和质量、外部资助的数量、人口研究领域的专业存在和学术影响力方面取得了实质性进展。有了新的R24资金，我们建议通过创新研究来巩固这些成功；与科罗拉多大学内部以及其他大学和国家的跨学科合作关系；利用大学行政部门的支持；指导和支持一批有前途的新教师；在人口研究和培训方面的国际领导地位；技术的更新。为了实现这些目标，申请描述了该中心的三个标志性主题：(1)健康和死亡率；(2)移民和人口再分配；(3)环境人口学。在这些主题上取得了显著的智力进步，并承诺将有更多的进展，与此同时，一座耗资1400万美元的跨学科社会科学研究大楼破土动工。中国铜联将于2010年9月搬入大楼。该中心要求五个基础设施核心：行政核心将为所有附属机构提供关键服务，包括秘书、书目和研究项目的赠款管理支持。统计及计算中心将提供一流的计算和技术环境，以处理大型和复杂的数据集，并利用附属机构的专门知识进行统计培训和咨询。信息核心将扩大附属机构获取信息的渠道，提高对中心活动的认识，并传播研究成果。发展核心将提供关键的种子奖，使科学家——特别是初级附属机构——能够解决更大、更困难、以前难以解决的研究问题。公共基础设施核心与人口资料局合作，将帮助向公众传播全国人口中心的研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In response to RFA-HD-09-004 for the Population Research Infrastructure Program (R24), the University of Colorado at Boulder Population Center (CUPC) requests five years of funding from NICHD for Infrastructure support of the center. With funding over the last four years from an NICHD Short-term Support for Rising Programs award, the center made substantial progress in size and quality of the faculty affiliates, number of external grants, and professional presence and scholarly influence in population research. With new R24 funding, we propose to build on these successes through innovative research; collaborative ties to across disciplines within the University of Colorado and across other universities and nations; leveraged support from the university administration; mentoring and support for a group of promising new faculty; international leadership in demographic research and training; and updating of technology. Toward these goals, the application describes the three signature themes of the center: (1) health and mortality; (2) migration and population redistribution; and (3) environmental demography. The notable intellectual progress made on these themes and the promise of more to come coincide with the ground breaking of a new $14 million building for interdisciplinary social science research. CUPC will move into the building in September 2010. The center requests five infrastructure cores: The Administrative Core will provide crucial services to all affiliates, including secretarial, bibliographic, and grants management support for research projects. The Statistics and Computing Core will support a first-rate computing and technology environment for handling large and complex data sets and make use of affiliate expertise for statistical training and consultation. The information Core will broaden access to information for affiliates, increase awareness of center activities, and disseminate research findings. The Developmental Core will provide crucial seed awards to allow researchers - particularly junior affiliates - to address larger, more difficult, previously intractable research problems. The Public Infrastructure Core, in collaboration with the Population Reference Bureau, will help disseminate research of population centers across the country to the public. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The ongoing and future activities of the center mix theory and application in ways that is relevant to numerous public health issues: the worldwide spread of HIV/AIDS, disparities in health and health behaviors, adolescent health problems, gene-environmental interactions for health, consequences of immigration for migrants and sending areas, and population and environmental problems.