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，提供战略资源，支持人口研究的创新和卓越。PRI拥有来自14个部门和5所学院的66名教职员工/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）青少年和青年的健康和福祉;（4）健康差距。这些主题的研究由五个研究基础设施核心的活动和服务促进：（1）行政核心，（2）计算机核心，（3）数据，编程和统计核心，（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成本效益高的服务，而这些服务通常是宾夕法尼亚州立大学教师无法获得的。该中心还提供学习和交流论坛（工作组，演讲系列，研讨会和专题讨论会），项目开发援助和种子资金。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与众不同。首先，它是一个在人口科学核心领域有着深厚根基的成熟中心，但它通过整合人类发展，生物学和地理学的观点和方法来丰富这些领域的研究。第二，制度创新是与时俱进的。 它是研究和研究方法的新领域的领导者，其基础设施对新兴的研究机会和挑战做出反应。此外，该中心投资于有前途的年轻人口学者谁是招聘到宾夕法尼亚州立大学的职业发展。第三，PRI的教职员工都是统一的高生产力，几乎所有的补助金都是积极的;这种优势跨越了所有级别的资历。

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.