# University of Colorado Population Center

> **NIH NIH P2C** · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · 2022 · $155,922

## Abstract

DEVELOPMENT CORE 
PROJECT SUMMARY 
The Development Core represents an important component of the University of Colorado’s 
Population Center (CUPC) proposal in response to RFA-HD-20-015 for the Population 
Dynamics Research Infrastructure Program FY 2020 (P2C). CUPC requests renewal of 
infrastructure support for the five-year project period 2020–2025. Fueled by NICHD funds, the 
Center is firmly established as the hub of population science at CU and CUPC’s Development 
Core has been redesigned to build on CUPC’s strong momentum. 
In the next five years, the Development Core has three specific aims: (1) increase the scientific 
impact, innovation, and productivity of CUPC's population researchers; (2) increase CUPC 
affiliate's competitiveness for external funding in population science; and (3) continue and 
increase support for early investigators in population science. A variety of new and reconfigured 
activities are proposed to meet these aims. To enhance productivity and innovation, as well as 
to increase cohesiveness within primary research areas, in the past five years, thematic working 
groups have been established with faculty leads. These groups have had notable success in 
spurring new research collaborations and in the next grant cycle, resources are requested to 
support innovative activities within the working groups. Also, to increase external funding 
competitiveness, CUPC will develop a grant writing workshop to build on the already-impressive 
success of the Center’s energetic, early stage investigators. Finally, substantial new investment 
from CU Boulder provides resources to raise the funding on seed grants and increase the pool 
of available funds. Throughout, the CUPC director and Development Core director collaborate 
to ensure that early stage investigators are centrally considered within investments with a target 
of this group receiving at least 50% of seed grants in the next five years. 
Faculty accomplishments have been recognized at the university scale as evidenced by 
generous, new support from across the Boulder campus. A formalized Memorandum of 
Understanding with CU Denver expands the Center with new funding, space and collaborative 
commitment. These combine to lay a foundation for CUPC’s continued growth in productivity, 
innovation and impact and the Development Core has been redesigned to support the Center in 
this growth.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10439591
- **Project number:** 5P2CHD066613-13
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
- **Principal Investigator:** Jason D Boardman
- **Activity code:** P2C (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $155,922
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2010-09-27 → 2025-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10439591

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10439591, University of Colorado Population Center (5P2CHD066613-13). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10439591. Licensed CC0.

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