# Population Research Institute

> **NIH NIH P2C** · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · 2020 · $703,363

## Abstract

Summary: Overview
This application requests five years of infrastructure funding for the Population Research Institute (PRI).
Established over four decades ago at the Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and funded by the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) since 1992 with generous supplemental support from PSU, this vibrant,
multidisciplinary community of scholars provides strategic resources to support innovative, high impact
population research. PRI's overarching aim is to advance the scientific understanding of human population
dynamics and processes, especially as they relate to PRI's five primary research areas: Communities,
Neighborhoods and Spatial Processes, Immigration and Immigrant Integration, Social Change and Changing
Families, Population Health, and the Causes and Consequences of Crime. PRI fosters collaborative research
partnerships and the development of junior scholars through the activities and seed grant program of its
Development Core (DC). The institute further supports the development and application of novel approaches
and methods that can make important and cutting edge contributions to population research through its
Computational and Spatial Analysis (CSA) Core. Finally, the Institute increases faculty research productivity by
reducing the barriers and burdens associated with research administration through its Administrative Core
(AC).
PRI provides a highly supportive environment for conducting population research. It is located at a university
with a strong commitment to and rich tradition of facilitating interdisciplinary research. An example of this is
PSU's generous financial and infrastructure support provided to PRI. Across all levels of seniority, PRI faculty
are highly productive and nearly all receive external funding. Population science at PSU would not have
achieved this level of impact, were it not for its P2C/R24/P30 infrastructure grants, which have had a multiplier
effect. The investments from NIH have rallied institutional and faculty commitment to population science,
enabled PSU to recruit top-notch faculty, and led to the development of an intellectual community that is more
productive than the sum of its parts. These faculty contribute to PRI's existing strengths in family, immigration,
and spatial demography, and have built bridges to other exceptional faculty groups at PSU, namely population
health scholars, criminologists, and geographers. Researchers have also helped to advance population
research through the application and analysis of new forms of data (including restricted, spatial, social network,
and other forms of “big” data).

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9963298
- **Project number:** 5P2CHD041025-20
- **Recipient organization:** PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
- **Principal Investigator:** JENNIFER E. GLICK
- **Activity code:** P2C (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $703,363
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2001-09-21 → 2021-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9963298

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9963298, Population Research Institute (5P2CHD041025-20). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9963298. Licensed CC0.

---

*[NIH grants dataset](/datasets/nih-grants) · CC0 1.0*