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）的人口研究中心（PRC）要求第六次更新其T32 NICHD人口研究培训补助金。中华人民共和国拥有杰出的研究和培训项目，涉及广泛的健康相关问题。它的重点特别放在五个专题领域：健康差距、儿童、家庭和青年、宗教和家庭、教育和向成年过渡以及拉丁美洲人口。基于我们最近的增长和巨大的生产力，拟议的培训计划继续寻求扩大和学术拓宽我们以前的计划，我们要求在社会学系和人类生态学系之间共享六名博士预科生和两名博士后学员。我们的要求是在现有的5名博士预科生和1名博士后学员的基础上适度扩大。PRC提供了一个优秀的培训环境，该中心的成就可以从以下方面得到证明：a)对我们最近R24中心补助金续期的非常热情的反应；b)迄今为止，中国历史上最大的赠款组合；C)相当多的新教员是积极和富有成效的成员；D)我们在期刊文章、书籍、章节和会议演讲方面的研究生产力；E)培训计划在招募少数民族教师和学生方面的成功，f)我们最近在将毕业生安置在全国领先的学术、博士后和研究职位方面取得了重大成功。增加第二名博士后培训生的提议也符合我们五个主题研究领域的强大资助项目，以及我们在过去五年中在接待和安置七名博士后学者方面取得的巨大成功。中国在未来五年内继续支持和安置博士后的潜力是巨大的。我们的培训计划的扩大反映了中国人口研究和整个学科日益跨学科的性质。中华人民共和国拥有一支非常富有成效和学术广泛的研究人员队伍，其中最集中的是社会学系和人类生态学，但也有来自许多其他校园单位的强大教师参与。中华人民共和国的学生人才广泛而多样，目前有72名博士预科学员参加了中华人民共和国的研究生培训计划。本申请概述了培训计划的结构，包括课程作业和道德培训，以及我们在中华人民共和国专业发展和少数民族学者培训方面的杰出记录基础上的计划。总之，我们要求支持，以继续我们的成功服务于中国培训使命，培养训练有素，高度道德的人口研究人员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Population Research Center (PRC) of the University of Texas at Austin (UT) requests a 6th 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, Children, Families and Youth, Religion and Families, Education and the Transition to Adulthood, and Latin American Demography. Building on our recent growth and tremendous productivity, the proposed training program continues to seek to enlarge and academically broaden our previous program, and we request six pre-doctoral trainees and two post-doctoral trainees to be shared between the Departments of Sociology and Human Ecology. Our request is a modest expansion of our current program of 5 pre-doctoral and 1 post-doctoral trainees. 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 faculty 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 second postdoctoral trainee is also consistent with the strong set of funded projects characterizing each of our five thematic research areas, and our substantial successes in hosting and placing seven postdoctoral scholars over the past five years. The potential of the PRC to continue to support and place postdoctoral fellows over the next five years is outstanding. The broadening of our training program 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 Departments of Sociology and Human Ecology, in that order, but also enjoys strong faculty participation from a number of other campus units. The student talent at the PRC is extensive and diverse, with a current set of 72 pre-doctoral trainees participating in the PRC's graduate training program. This application outlines the structure of the training program, including coursework and ethics training, and our plans to build on 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.