The Minnesota Population Center (MPC) is a university-wide interdisciplinary research center at the University of Minnesota. MPC was established in 2000, absorbing two earlier population research organizations.[1] The primary goals of the center are to foster large-scale cross-disciplinary research collaborations and to provide shared infrastructure for demographic research.[2] The center now has 100 faculty affiliates[3] from 10 University of Minnesota Colleges,[4] over 50 graduate student affiliates[5] and 120 administrative and research staff.[6]