# Demography and Ecology

> **NIH NIH T32** · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · 2021 · $212,894

## Abstract

Program Summary/Abstract
 This T32 renewal application requests funds over five years to support six (6) predoctoral traineeships in population
research at the Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since 1962, CDE has
offered a world-class training program in population science (with nearly continuous NICHD T32 funding since 1975).
Our graduates are among the leaders in population research today, serving in a range of academic, government and applied
research settings. Guided by the NICHD mission “to ensure the health, productivity, independence, and well-being of all
people,” CDE research is organized around five major areas: 1) Fertility, families & households; 2) the Demography of
Inequality; 3) Health & mortality; 4) Biodemography; and 5) Environmental and spatial demography. Our training
objectives—and associated research activities—fall squarely under the Population Dynamics Branch which “supports
research and research training in demography, reproductive health, and population health.”
 The primary goals of the CDE training program in demography are: (1) to foster an interdisciplinary community of
junior scholars in population research; (2) to build expertise in demographic theory, methods, and analysis; and (3) to
cultivate students' professional skills, including the organization, execution, presentation, publication, and critique of
research. Within the CDE training program, the process of developing this expertise involves four essential components:
(1) formal training via coursework in students' home departments and interdisciplinary coursework in other departments;
(2) exposure to cutting-edge research of scholars in the broader community of population studies, primarily through the
weekly Demography Seminar (`DemSem'); (3) participation and collaboration in substantive research projects of CDE
training faculty through an apprenticeship model; and (4) professional socialization and integration into the field of
population studies, especially via the weekly Demography Training Seminar.
 Predoctoral T32 trainees are typically appointed in the second or third year in their PhD program, having shown
clear academic promise and a strong commitment to pursuing a population research-related career; most students come
from Sociology, Economics and Population Health (although we are increasingly recruiting from a broader range of
disciplines), and they typically receive T32 funding for two to three years. We are requesting 6 predoctoral training slots
(1 more than our current allocation) because our program has continued to grow in size, scope and quality. Our training
efforts have expanded to focus on interdisciplinary research areas at the forefront of social science (especially
biodemography and spatial/environmental demography), and we have been very successful at recruiting even larger
numbers of highly-competitive students into our broader training program. For the 2016-17 academic year, 8 top-no...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10164817
- **Project number:** 5T32HD007014-45
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
- **Principal Investigator:** Marcia Jeanne Carlson
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $212,894
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1975-07-01 → 2022-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10164817

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10164817, Demography and Ecology (5T32HD007014-45). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10164817. Licensed CC0.

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