MARYLAND POPULATION RESEARCH CENTER

描述(由申请人提供)：本申请请求继续支持马里兰大学(UMD)马里兰人口研究中心(MPRC)继续颁发人口研究基础设施奖。马里兰人口研究中心是马里兰大学-学院园区的一个跨学科人口研究中心，支持6所不同学校或学院和17个系的73名人口研究人员的研究。在接下来的五年中，MPRC将保持其标志性的研究主题，即性别、家庭和社会变化以及社会和经济不平等，将扩大其在社会背景下的健康领域的研究，并将投资于进一步开发新主题--人和地方。MPRC伙伴将继续在这些实质性主题范围内为人口研究贡献新的数据和方法。该应用程序请求支持对提高人口科学研究的速度和影响至关重要的四个核心：管理、计算、信息和开发。这些核心的任务是满足人口科学家的需要，并促进跨学科的环境。行政核心将支持赠款申请的准备、授标后项目管理，并协助其他核心。计算核心将管理对人口研究至关重要的计算资源。它将扩大机密数据飞地的高端计算水平和能力，以提供对受其机构来源限制的数据集的访问，或提供可能具有关于人类受试者的可识别信息的数据集。MPRC的信息 CORE将扩大基于网络的工具的部署，以加强中心的活动，开发利用地理信息系统和专门知识的新途径，并为学者提供管理研究协作和传播研究的有效手段。发展核心将为研究移民、卫生、社区、人口与环境以及性别与家庭的合作者群体提供新的活动。利用我们在华盛顿特区的地理位置优势，它将通过链接到华盛顿特区联邦机构的研究和数据活动来促进我们同事的研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests support for continuation of the Population Research Infrastructure Award to the Maryland Population Research Center (MPRC) at the University of Maryland (UMD). The Maryland Population Research Center is an interdisciplinary population research center at the University of Maryland-College Park that supports the research of 73 population researchers across 6 different schools or colleges and 17 departments. Over the next five-year period, MPRC will maintain its signature research themes of Gender, Family, and Social Change and Social and Economic Inequality, will expand its research in the area of Health in Social Context, and will invest in further development of a new theme, People and Place. MPRC associates will continue to contribute new data and methods for population research within these substantive themes. This application requests support for four cores that are central to increasing the pace and impact of population science research: Administrative, Computing, Information, and Development. The cores' missions are to meet the needs of population scientists and to foster an interdisciplinary environment. The administrative core will support the preparation of grant applications, post-award project management, and assist other cores. The Computing Core will manage the computing resources that are so essential to population research. It will expand the level of high-end computing and the capacity of the confidential data enclave to provide access to data sets that are restricted by their agency sources or that have potentially identifiable information on human subjects. MPRC's Information Core will expand the deployment of web-based tools to enhance Center activities, develop new access to geographic information systems and expertise, and provide scholars effective means of managing research collaborations and disseminating research. The Development Core will seed new activities aimed at groups of collaborators studying Immigration, Health, Neighborhoods, Population and Environment, and Gender and Family. Taking advantage of our location in the Washington, DC area, it will promote the research of our associates through linking to the research and data activities of federal agencies in the Washington, D.C.