# Development Core

> **NIH NIH P2C** · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · 2024 · $149,676

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
The Development Core has, as its primary mission, the development, support, and promotion of population
research of the highest scientific merit, in line with our four Primary Research Areas: Gender, Family and
Social Change, Health in Social Context, Social and Economic Inequality, and Migration and Immigrant
Processes. The Core’s mission is accomplished through: 1) promoting active inter-disciplinary engagement in
population research through seminars, workshops and other collaborative opportunities including with the
Federal statistics agencies and larger metropolitan Washington DC community; 2) supporting our faculty, in
particular junior and underrepresented minority (URM) faculty, to develop, expand, and consolidate their
research agenda in the population sciences through Seed Grants; 3) hosting resident and visiting population
scientists in order to support and expand collaborative research opportunities for MPRC faculty associates and
extending outreach of intellectual resources to our External Affiliates, particularly those at institutions without a
Population Dynamics Center (P2C); 4) fostering the careers of underrepresented scholars in population
research in order to foster inclusive and broadened perspectives in population research; and 5) co-sponsoring
symposia and workshops on a range of population related issues in order to increase our visibility in and
outside of UMD and strengthen our interdisciplinary mission. The seminar series and workshops offer
invaluable opportunities for the UMD community to engage with cutting edge theoretical and empirical
advances in population research and to develop fruitful collaborations outside of UMD. The Seed Grant
program is fundamental to supporting our faculty, especially junior faculty and URM faculty, to develop
proposals for submission to NICHD’s Population Dynamics Branch (PDB) and for proposals in the PDB
mission submitted to other federal agencies and foundations. It is a dynamic program, adapting to special
opportunities for high-impact research, such as those occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic or sudden
restrictions on reproductive health access. The resident and visiting researcher programs are critical to
increasing the visibility of MPRC nationally, internationally and the greater Washington DC community. Our
outreach to External Affiliates, particularly at non-P2C institutions, enriches population research at MPRC and
provides vital networks to access intellectual resources for our External Affiliates. The Development Core’s
programs to support URM scholars integrate diversity throughout all of our activities, including seminar and
workshops, mentoring, seed grants and resident and visiting scholars programs, thereby addressing the call by
NICHD-PDB and other federal funding agencies to increase the visibility of URM researchers in population
research. Finally, co-sponsoring symposia is a highly effective way to interact with other entities at UMD and to
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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10895062
- **Project number:** 2P2CHD041041-22
- **Recipient organization:** UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
- **Principal Investigator:** Susan W Parker
- **Activity code:** P2C (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $149,676
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 2001-07-05 → 2029-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10895062

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10895062, Development Core (2P2CHD041041-22). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10895062. Licensed CC0.

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