Center for Demography and Ecology

 描述(由申请者提供)：本申请请求为威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的人口统计和生态中心提供五年的支持。CDE是一个高生产率的人口研究中心，在14个部门和4个学院有57个附属机构，开展直接涉及PDB科学任务的三个组成部分的工作。自1972年以来，它一直持有NICHD中心赠款，这项申请要求在NICHD人口动态中心研究基础设施(P2C)下继续提供这种支持。请求为一个管理核心、一个开发核心和两个研究支持核心--计算和数据--提供支持。该中心的拨款将支持一个综合性和跨学科的学者集合，他们的研究横跨人口科学领域。在过去的五年中，CDE招募了一大批优秀的青年科学家和知名学者，并加强了校园内与CDE现有和新兴研究领域相关领域的部门、研究中心和研究所的联系。我们的研究组合现在更加多样化，更加国际化，比过去涵盖了更多的生命历程。CDE分支机构在三个既定的研究领域开展工作：(1)生育率、家庭和家庭，(2)不平等的人口学，(3)健康与死亡率，以及我们建议在未来五年进一步发展的两个新兴研究领域：(4)生物人口学和(5)环境和空间人口学。除了这些领域的创新研究外，CDE研究人员还继续收集和产生高质量的数据，供人口研究界使用，包括越来越多的遗传和生物标记数据。NICHD的持续基础设施支持将使CDE能够利用大学的大量承诺、大量的个人研究补助金以及出色的人力和组织资源，以促进人口科学领域的跨学科创新研究。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests five years of support for the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. CDE is a highly-productive population research center, with 57 affiliates in 14 departments and 4 colleges conducting work that directly addresses the three components of the PDB scientific mission. It has held NICHD center grant funding continuously since 1972 and this application requests continuation of that support under NICHD's Population Dynamics Centers Research Infrastructure (P2C). Support is requested for an Administrative Core, a Development Core, and two research support cores -- Computing and Data. The center grant would support an integrated and interdisciplinary collection of scholars whose research spans the field of population science. During the past five years, CDE has recruited a large number of excellent young scientists and established scholars and strengthened its ties across campus with departments, research centers and institutes in fields related to CDE's existing and emerging research areas. Our research portfolio is now more diverse, is more international in character, and covers a greater portion of the life course than in the past. CDE affiliates work in three established research areas: (1) Fertility, Families, & Households, (2) the Demography of Inequality, and (3) Health & Mortality and in two emerging research areas that we propose to develop further over the next five years: (4) Biodemography and (5) Environmental and Spatial Demography. In addition to innovative research in each of these areas, CDE researchers continue to collect and produce high-quality data for the use by the population research community, including a growing body of genetic and biomarker data. Continued infrastructure support from NICHD will allow CDE to leverage substantial commitments from the University, a large portfolio of individual research grants, and outstanding human and organizational resources to promote innovative interdisciplinary research in population science.