# University of Colorado Population Center

> **NIH NIH P2C** · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · 2024 · $156,672

## Abstract

ADMINISTRATIVE CORE 
PROJECT SUMMARY 
The Administrative 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. The Administrative Core is 
CUPC's backbone, operating in the background to enable affiliates to focus squarely on their 
population science research. 
The Administrative Core is staffed by a director, program manager and grant specialist, with 
additional support from a university-funded Graduate Research Assistant and an undergraduate 
student supported by the Institute of Behavioral Science. Changes in the core are responsive to 
CUPC's growth, most notably in the last five years with affiliates engaging in increasingly 
complex, problem-driven projects. An important change is the elimination of the associate 
director (AD) position, thereby yielding salary savings. In lieu of the AD, the Development Core 
has been restructured with five faculty leads for primary research areas as well as a speaker 
series faculty coordinator. Since these new positions will also be on CUPC's Executive 
Committee, these changes will increase faculty engagement with the Center and broaden 
faculty participation in governance. 
Combined with these salary savings, generous new university investments in CUPC provide the 
opportunity to employ a full-time manager, a necessity given the additional activities taking 
place in the Development Core – which is supported by the Administrative Core. New activities 
include a grant writing workshop, PRA working groups, additional speakers, and additional mini- 
conferences and workshops. 
The other P2C-supported Administrative Core staff member will be CUPC's grant specialist who 
provides personalized support with an emphasis on funding agencies and programs of particular 
relevance to population research. This specialized grant support has been deemed essential 
since CUPC's inception in 2005 and has provided important value-added. 
Finally, CUPC benefits substantially from being embedded in IBS which has a deep pool of 
efficiently-administered resources. Such efficiencies include CUPC's ability to benefit from IBS's 
faculty lines, space, and administrative resources such as post-award support.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10790000
- **Project number:** 5P2CHD066613-15
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
- **Principal Investigator:** JANE A MENKEN
- **Activity code:** P2C (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $156,672
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2010-09-27 → 2027-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10790000

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10790000, University of Colorado Population Center (5P2CHD066613-15). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10790000. Licensed CC0.

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