Population Research Institute

描述（由申请人提供）：这是宾夕法尼亚州立大学人口研究所（PRI）更新NICHD （R24）基础设施支持的申请。所要求的资金，加上慷慨的大学配套支持，将使PRI继续发展成为人口科学的卓越中心，并实现其在宾夕法尼亚州立大学促进创新人口研究和培训的基本使命。PRI成立于1972年，自1991年以来一直为联合国人口与发展中心的基础设施提供支持。它是一个大型的、高度跨学科的研究所，拥有73个终身研究员和附属机构，分布在17个系和7个学院。宾夕法尼亚州立大学最近的发展，包括儿童、青年和家庭联盟和调查研究中心的成立，再加上PRI与医学院的新机构联系，教育学院的首次支持，以及与健康与人类发展学院的加强联系，注入了新的能量和资源，使PRI能够在三个标志性主题上开展工作：家庭过程和变化的跨学科视角；将个人、家庭和人口健康联系起来的跨学科观点；从人口统计学角度看不平等和机会。在每个主题中，我们确定了广泛的问题，这些问题激励和构建了PRI下一个五年周期的雄心勃勃的研究计划。PRI研究人员的生产力和工作质量依赖于五个具有前瞻性和成本效益的服务核心和一个发展基础设施。行政中心提供专家申请集合和提交服务以及奖后管理。计算机核心提供尖端的硬件和软件支持以及高端计算机编程。地理信息分析核心提供高质量的地图、可视化、上下文数据处理和空间分析能力。信息核心提供文献检索和文章检索服务，并维护一个人口图书馆和一个庞大的社会科学数据档案。重组后的统计核心提供统计咨询，组织信息丰富的讲习班和研讨会，并确保PRI在统计软件中的货币。PRI的发展基础设施利用新的教师领导提供种子资助计划，工作组机会和同行评审能力，所有这些都针对初级教师。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application for renewed NICHD (R24) infrastructure support for the Population Research Institute (PRI) at The Pennsylvania State University. The requested funding, combined with generous University matching support, will allow PRI to continue developing as a center of excellence in population science and to achieve its fundamental mission of promoting innovative demographic research and training at Penn State. PRI was formed in 1972 and has had continued NICHD infrastructure support since 1991. It is a large and highly multidisciplinary institute, with its 73 tenure-track Research Associates and Affiliates distributed across 17 departments and seven colleges. Recent developments at Penn State, including the formation of the Children, Youth, and Families Consortium and the Survey Research Center, coupled with PRI's new institutional links with the College of Medicine, first-time support from the College of Education, and strengthened ties to the College of Health and Human Development, infuse new energy and resources that will allow PRI to pursue work on three signature themes: interdisciplinary perspectives on family processes and change; interdisciplinary perspectives linking individual, family, and population health overtime; and demographic perspectives on inequality and opportunity. Within each theme we identify broad questions which motivate and structure PRI's ambitious research plans for the next five-year cycle. The productivity of PRI researchers and the quality of their work relies on five forward-looking and cost-effective service cores and a Developmental Infrastructure. The Administrative Core provides expert application assembly and submission service and post-award administration. The Computer Core provides cutting-edge hardware and software support and high-end computer programming. The Geographic Information Analysis Core provides high quality mapping, visualization, contextual data manipulation and spatial analysis capabilities. The Information Core provides literature search and article retrieval services, and maintains both a demography library and a vast social science data archive. The reorganized Statistics Core provides statistical consulting, organizes informative workshops and seminars, and ensures PRI's currency in statistical software. PRI's Developmental Infrastructure draws on new faculty leadership to provide a seed grant program, working group opportunities, and peer review capabilities, all targeted toward junior faculty.