Developmental Psychology Training Grant

描述（由申请人提供）：密歇根大学发展心理学课程旨在培养学生成为有创造力、精通的学者，他们将在发展科学领域从事健全、有意义的基础研究和转化研究，寻求资助申请，并在未来成为优秀的教师和导师。该项目包括23名核心教师，心理学系拥有140多名教师，并与密歇根大学其他院系和研究中心进行互动，另外还有38名发展研究人员。课程和研究培训机会在项目、部门和大学社区中既广泛又深入。发展领域研究训练的广泛主题包括：整个生命周期的转变；语境的作用；生物视角;发展模式与方法，理论、研究与实践相结合的转化研究。这些主题在神经科学、认知、语言、社会情感发展和发展精神病理学等方面的研究培训中得以实现。在跨学科中心、跨文化和国际环境、学校和诊所进行培训，以及将研究应用于诸如教育成就中的种族和性别差距以及社会经济劣势等政策问题，都存在着独特的机会。要求每年支助四名博士前和两名博士后受训人员，为期五年，数额与联合国人口与发展中心培训补助金前一培训期间的职位数目一致。学员是从一批经过严格筛选的优秀申请者中挑选出来的，并特别注意招收来自代表性不足的少数民族的学生。我们的毕业生成绩尤其出色，许多少数族裔学员现在担任着重要的专业职位。该项目拥有优秀的物理设施和资源，我们是国际知名的心理学系的一部分，为我们的学员提供最先进的设备和实验室空间。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The program in Developmental Psychology at the University of Michigan is designed to prepare its students to be creative, proficient scholars who will pursue sound, meaningful basic and translational research careers in developmental science, pursue grant applications, and be excellent teachers and mentors in the future. The program includes 23 core faculty, is in the Department of Psychology with more than 140 faculty, and interacts with other University of Michigan departments and research centers with an additional 38 developmental researchers. Courses and research training opportunities are both broad and in depth within the program, the Department, and the University community. The broad themes of research training within the developmental area include: Transitions across the Lifespan; the Role of Context; Biological Perspectives; Developmental Models and Methods, and Translational Research Integrating Theory, Research and Practice. These themes are actualized in trainee-specific research training in neuroscience, cognitive, language, socioemotional development, and developmental psychopathology. Unique opportunities exist for training in interdisciplinary centers, cross- cultural, and international settings, schools and clinics, and for the application of research to policy issues such as ethnic and gender gaps in educational achievement and socio-economic disadvantage. Support is requested for four predoctoral and two postdoctoral trainees per year for a period of five years, consistent with the number of positions in the previous training period of this NICHD training grant. Trainees are chosen from a highly selective pool of stellar applicants, with special attention given to recruiting students from underrepresented minorities. The record of our graduates has been especially strong, with many of our minority trainees now in prominent professional positions. The program has excellent physical facilities and resources, and we are part of an internationally eminent psychology department with state of the art-equipment and laboratory space available to our trainees. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The developmental psychology program is highly relevant to education through its research on cognitive, language, and literacy development, to mental health problems with its focus on socioemotional development, family process, and relationship research, to social justice with its research on gender, socioeconomic status, and minority health disparities, and overall to healthy development and social adjustment across the lifespan during childhood, school-age, adolescence, the transition to adulthood and aging.