The mission of the SCHRC is to conduct basic, translational, and clinical pediatric research. This highly interactive and collaborative center is housed in a unique research facility with state-of-the-art resources and equipment. Interdisciplinary approaches are used to understand the underlying basis of a wide array of congenital defects and childhood diseases. Areas of interest include rare d...

Our nation’s continued global competitiveness is widely believed to depend upon the United States maintaining its leadership in the development and management of new information technologies (Freeman & Aspray, 1999; Malcom, Babco, Teich, Jesse, Campbell, & Bell, 2005; Sargent, 2005). Rapidly changing technologies have pervaded every sector of American society, infusing nearly everyone’s work an...

...................................................................................................................................................3 1 THE BACKDROP...................................................................................................................................4 2 WHAT IS GUIDANCE? ....................................................................................