improve its impact on youth policy and practice. He came to the Foundation from the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC), where he was senior vice president and director of MDRC’s education, children, and youth department. Prior to that he was executive vice president at the Bank Street College of Education, and executive director of the Child Development Associate National Credentialing Program. Dr. Granger’s research specialties include the study of social programs and policies that affect low-income children, youth, and families. He earned his doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

VICTORIA INTERRANTE is Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on the application of insights from visual perception, art and illustration to the design of more effective techniques for conveying data through images. Her research involves active collaborations with colleagues across the University from the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics to the Department of Architecture. Her present projects include: the study of texture’s effect on shape perception and the design and synthesis of texture patterns to facilitate accurate shape representation; the study of texture perception and the development of methods for effectively using texture in visualizing multivariate data and representing data uncertainty; the development of algorithms for the effective detection, tracking and visualization of vortical structures in turbulent boundary layer flows; and the study of spatial perception in immersive virtual environments and the use of VR technology in the development of tools to enhance the process of conceptual design in architecture. She received her B.A. in computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Boston in 1984, her M.S. from UCLA in 1986, and her Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied under the joint direction of Dr. Henry Fuchs and Dr. Stephen Pizer. From 1996-1998 she worked as a staff scientist at ICASE, a non-profit research center operated by the Universities Space Research Association at NASA Langley. In 1999 she received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and she was awarded a 2001-2003 McKnight Land-Grant Professorship from the University of Minnesota.

JULIE THOMPSON KLEIN is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of interdisciplinary history, theory, and methodology. Dr. Klein arrived at Wayne State in 1970 and has been with what is now the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in the College of Lifelong Learning since 1976. A past president of the Association for Integrative Studies, she lectures and consults throughout the world for universities developing interdisciplinary programs. Professor Klein currently is a member of the Association of