Population Research Institute

描述(由申请人提供)：本申请要求为人口研究所(PR！)提供五年的资金。在宾夕法尼亚州立大学。PRI是一个充满活力的多学科中心，为支持人口研究的创新和卓越提供战略资源。PRI拥有来自14个系和5个学院的66名教员助理/附属机构。该中心强调四个主要标志性主题的研究：(1)移民和移民适应；(2)美国社区和社区；(3)青春期和青年时期的健康和福祉；(4)健康差距。五个研究基础设施核心的活动和服务促进了这些主题的研究：(1)行政核心、(2)计算机核心、(3)数据、方案和统计核心、(4)地理信息分析核心和(5)发展基础设施核心。这些核心为PRI研究人员提供了许多宾夕法尼亚州立大学教职员工通常无法获得的具有成本效益的服务。该中心还提供学习和交流(工作组、演讲者系列、研讨会和研讨会)、项目发展援助和种子资金的论坛。PRI有效地利用宾夕法尼亚州立大学内部的资源，建立人口科学方面的跨学科专业知识，投资于有前途的研究方向，并加强其基础设施。PRI至少在三个重要方面独树一帜。首先，它是一个久负盛名的中心，在人口科学的核心领域有着强大的根基，但它通过整合人类发展、生物学和地理学的视角和方法来丰富这些领域的研究。第二，PRI是与时俱进的。它在研究和研究方法的新领域处于领先地位，其基础设施对新出现的研究机会和挑战做出反应。此外，该中心还投资于被宾夕法尼亚州立大学招募的有前途的年轻人口学者的职业发展。第三，PRI的教员助理工作效率一致很高，几乎所有人都是积极的助学金；这一优势贯穿于所有级别的资历。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests five years of funding for the Population Research Institute (PR!) at The Pennsylvania State University. PRI is a vibrant, multidisciplinary center that provides strategic resources in support of innovation and excellence in population research. PRI has 66 faculty associates/affiliates from 14 departments and 5 colleges. The center emphasizes research in four major signature themes: (1) immigration and immigrant adaptation; (2) American neighborhoods and communities; (3) health and well-being in adolescence and young adulthood; and (4) health disparities. Research within these themes is facilitated by the activities and services of five research infrastructure cores: (1) Administrative Core, (2) Computer Core, (3) Data, Programming and Statistics Core, (4) Geographic Information Analysis Core, and (5) Developmental Infrastructure Core. These cores provide many cost-effective services to PRI researchers that are not ordinarily available to Penn State University faculty. The center also provides forums for learning and exchange (working groups, a speaker series, workshops, and symposia), project development assistance, and seed funding. PRI effectively leverages resources from within Penn State to build interdisciplinary expertise in population science, to invest in promising research directions, and to enhance its infrastructure. PRI is distinctive in at least three important respects. First, it is a well-established center with strong roots in core areas of population science, yet it enriches research in those areas by integrating perspectives and methodologies from human development, biology, and geography. Second, PRI is changing with the times. It is a leader in new areas of research and research methodology, and its infrastructure is responsive to emerging research opportunities and challenges. In addition, the center invests in the career development of promising young population scholars who are recruited to Penn State. Third, PRI faculty associates are uniformly highly productive and nearly all are grant active; this strength cuts across all levels of seniority.