Training Program in Population Studies

描述(由申请人提供)：德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校(UT)人口研究中心(中国)要求第7次续签其T32 NICHD人口研究培训助学金。中国有出色的研究和培训计划，解决一系列与健康有关的问题。它的重点特别集中在五个主题领域：健康差距；育儿、伙伴关系和人类发展；教育不平等和机会；社会经济不平等和工作。在我们最近的增长和巨大生产力的基础上，拟议的培训计划寻求扩大和扩大我们目前的计划，申请资金支持社会学系、人类发展和家庭科学系(HDFS)和LBJ公共事务学院的6名博士后实习生(从5名)和2名博士后实习生(目前为2名)。中国提供了一个出色的培训环境，中心的成就体现在：a)我们最近更新的R24中心的资助反应非常热烈；b)我们的资助组合是迄今为止中国历史上最大的；c)大量活跃和富有成效的新成员；d)我们在期刊文章、书籍、章节和会议演讲方面的研究效率；e)培训计划成功地招聘了少数族裔的教职员工和学生；f)我们最近在将我们的毕业生安置到全国领先的学术、博士后和研究岗位上取得了重大成功。建议增加第六名博士前实习生，这与我们扩大培训计划以包括公共事务是一致的。这反映了越来越多的跨学科 中国和整个学科的人口研究的性质。中国拥有一批卓有成效和学术广泛的研究人员，其中最集中的分别是社会学系和人类发展研究中心。然而，最近校园招聘的成功，增加了公共事务、经济和心理学系教职员工的参与。中国的学生人才是广泛和多样化的，目前的干部是社会学、人类发展研究中心和公共事务部的博士前实习生，他们参加了中国的研究生培训计划。本申请书概述了培训计划的结构，包括课程和道德培训，以及中华人民共和国在少数民族学者专业发展和培训方面的杰出记录。总而言之，我们请求支持，以继续成功地服务于中国培训代表团，培养出训练有素、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 7th 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; Parenting, Partnering, and Human Development; Educational Inequality and Opportunity; and Socioeconomic Inequality and Work. Building on our recent growth and tremendous productivity, the proposed training program seeks to enlarge and academically broaden our current program by requesting funding to support six pre-doctoral trainees (from five) and two post-doctoral trainees (at 2 currently) to be shared among the departments of Sociology, Human Development and Family Sciences (HDFS), and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. 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 faculy 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 sixth predoctoral trainee is consistent with the broadening of our training program to include Public Affairs. This 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 Department of Sociology and HDFS, respectively. Recent recruiting success across campus, however, has increased participation by faculty in the departments of Public Affairs, Economics, and Psychology. The student talent at the PRC is extensive and diverse, with a current cadre of 64 pre-doctoral trainees from Sociology, HDFS, and Public Affairs participating in the PRC's graduate training program. This application outlines the structure of the training program, including coursework and ethics training, and 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.