Training Program in Population Studies

描述（由申请人提供）：人口研究中心（PRC）的得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校（UT）要求其T32 NICHD培训补助金在人口研究的第六次更新。中国拥有出色的研究和培训计划，解决广泛的健康相关问题。其重点福尔斯特别集中在五个专题领域：健康差距、儿童、家庭和青年、宗教和家庭、教育和向成年过渡以及拉丁美洲人口。在我们最近的增长和巨大的生产力的基础上，拟议的培训计划继续寻求扩大和学术拓宽我们以前的计划，我们要求六名博士前学员和两名博士后学员在社会学和人类生态学部门之间共享。我们的要求是适度扩大我们目前的5名博士前和1名博士后实习生的计划。中国提供了一个优秀的培训环境，该中心的成就是证明：a）非常热烈的反应，我们最近的R24中心赠款更新; B）赠款组合，这是迄今为止，在中国历史上最大的; c）谁是积极和富有成效的成员的新教师的显着数量; d）我们的研究生产力，包括期刊文章、书籍、章节和会议报告;（e）培训方案在招募少数民族教师和学生方面取得的成功，以及f）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了重大成功。增加第二名博士后培训生的建议也符合我们五个主题研究领域中每个领域的强大资助项目，以及我们在过去五年中成功接待和安置七名博士后学者的实质性成就。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。中华人民共和国有一个非常富有成效和学术广泛的研究人员群体，在社会学和人类生态学的部门最集中，在这个顺序，但也享有来自其他一些校园单位的强大的教师参与。中国的学生人才是广泛和多样化的，目前有72名博士前学员参加中国的研究生培训计划。本申请概述了培训计划的结构，包括课程和道德培训，以及我们在中国少数民族学者专业发展和培训方面的杰出记录。总之，我们请求支持继续成功地为中国的培训使命服务，以培养训练有素、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.