Good WorksYears later, the ripple effects of philanthropy are very real.A TUSDM resident assists with pediatric oral surgery in India. Story on page 3.

A message from the president:When Tufts College was founded nearly 160 years ago, the hill upon which its light was famously placed had no trees. Some had been chopped down for firewood by Hessian soldiers during the Revolutionary War. The rest went to the building of Medford clipper ships. What was known as Walnut Hill was bare.

Today from my window in Ballou Hall I can see elms and beeches and maples, which have turned a riot of orange, red, and yellow in my first autumn on campus.

It’s remarkable what a few well-placed seeds will do.

The same can be said for philanthropy. I have only been at Tufts a short time but already it is clear to me the impact that generosity has had on this university.

This issue of Blueprint seeks to convey the tangible difference that giving makes.

Take for example the story of Nicole Cherng, A10, which resonates with me as a research scientist. Nicole got her start as a researcher in biologist Sergei Mirkin’s lab. Her work had potential applications in the treatment of a neurological disor-der for which there currently is no cure. She was lead author on a resulting paper that was published in one of the most distinguished of scientific journals—a remarkable achievement for an undergraduate. Now she is going to medical school and eyes a career combining practice as a physician with research.

Nicole’s progress illustrates the widening circles of philanthropy’s impact. The generosity of the White family endowed the professorship Sergei Mirkin holds in biology, helping underwrite his teaching and research that is expanding our knowledge while contributing to the betterment of the human condition. Meantime, support from the Russell L. Carpenter Summer Fellowship Program and the Summer Scholars program—both made possible by the generosity of Tufts families and friends—helped Nicole gain the lab experience that has provided the foundation for her future in medicine. Her great works are only beginning.

There are many more stories like this at Tufts. This issue of Blueprint contains a few of them.

Thank you for all you do to make this university a place where achievements radi-ate. I look forward to working with you to add new chapters to Tufts’ remarkable story—and to plant some new seeds.

Best wishes, Tony Monaco

F O R T U F T S U N I V E R S I T Y

Chair, Board of TrusteesJames A. Stern, E72, A07P

PresidentAnthony P. Monaco, Ph.D.

Provost ad InterimPeggy Newell

Senior Vice President for University AdvancementBrian K. Lee

University AdvancementTufts University, 80 George Street, 200-3 Medford, MA 02155 USA 617.627.3200 • giving@tufts.edu

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Fall 2011 News of Giving, Growth, and Gratitude

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The first thing a visitor notices in

the waiting room of the SDM

Hospital Craniofacial Unit in

Dharwad, India, are all the chil-

dren waiting for treatment who

were born with cleft lip or palate.

Their deformities make it hard for them

to speak. Some babies are malnourished

because it is difficult for them to be fed.

“Many have come a long way from

remote rural areas for this chance at a

normal life,” says Dr. Marcin “Marty” Jarmoc, D07, DG11. As a resident in

oral and maxillofacial surgery at Tufts

University School of Dental Medicine

last year, he participated in an exchange

program at the SDM College of Dental

Sciences and Hospital with the support

of a travel fund established by a gener-

ous Tufts donor.

“On any given day there are 20 or

30 kids in the unit awaiting surgery

or post-operative treatment,” recalls

Jarmoc, now an assistant clinical profes-

sor at the School of Dental Medicine.

“Our role was to assist with the surger-

ies, and we would do two or three of

these a day.

“The difference that was made in

the children’s appearance, as well as in

their quality of life, was tremendous,”

he says. “The parents’ faces would light

up when you brought the babies from

the recovery room.”

A travel fund endowed in 2002 by

Dr. Roderick Lewin, D57, has enabled

Tufts residents in oral and maxillofa-

cial surgery like Dr. Jarmoc to assist

at the Indian hospital, gaining valu-

able surgical and diagnostic training.

Dr. Lewin’s generosity “lit the candle”

that inspired the exchange program,

says Dr. Maria Papageorge, D82,

DG86, DG89, A12P, professor and

chair of oral and maxillofacial surgery.

“Students are transformed by the

experience,” she says.

The SDM Hospital is the only one

in India that provides care for patients

with cleft lip and palate as well as large

tumors and temporomandibular joint

(TMJ) disorders. Upwards of 1,200

patients are treated every year in the

hospital’s 50-bed craniofacial unit.

“The pace of the work and the

advanced stages to which patients’

diseases have progressed—the result of

lack of money or access to care—are

issues a dentist would not experience in

the United States,” Jarmoc says.

He adds there are other differences,

too: “Because the power goes out as

often as once an hour, you have to rely

on the window in the operating room

for light while the back-up generator is

kicking in.”

Many of the cleft palate surger-

ies are paid for by Smile Train, an

international charity that funds such

operations for children in more than 80

countries around the world.

Through the exchange program,

residents in oral and maxillofacial

surgery from India also come to Tufts.

Tufts and SDM College have signed an

agreement to expand research collabo-

rations, and faculty from both institu-

tions are working together to develop

joint research ventures.

School of Dental Medicine residents return from hospital exchange program with insights, experience

Aboard the Smile Train

Martin Jarmoc, D07, DG11, gained surgical training in the Craniofacial Unit of SDM Hospital, Dharwad, India.

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IN THE JET AGE, his hometown of Farmington, Conn., and the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince are not very far apart, observes Nick Preneta, MG11. “You can get there in a day,” he says. “But it seems like a completely different world.”

Preneta, who had worked in Ghana under a travel grant from the School of Medicine’s Global Health Initiative Fund, was in his final semester in the Master of Public Health Program when the earthquake hit Haiti last year. He left school to go to Port-au-Prince, where he helped with the distribution of water, food, and medical supplies.

Preneta was returning to Haiti, where he had spent three years before Tufts working with street children in the northern city of Cap-Haitien. “I went because of my close ties to the people of Haiti and my belief that my knowledge of the country and language would be an asset to relief work,” he says.

The first place he lived after the earthquake was next to a camp holding 1,600 people. Built on a soccer field, the camp had no sanitary facilities. Preneta joined members of a local soccer team to build latrines.

Now he is involved in a more wide-scale effort to improve sanitation in Haiti. As deputy director of a group called SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods), he works with communities to build composting toilets, converting waste for use in agri-culture and reforesting. An experimental garden SOIL has planted shows how compost may be used to grow corn, plantains, and beans. Some of the soccer players from the camp in Port-au-Prince have signed on as staff.

His previous Global Health Initiative experience in Africa has been useful to him, Preneta says. The Global Health Initiative at the School of Medicine has ben-efited during the Beyond Boundaries campaign from

Taking the initiative

for global health

“The effectiveness of any

[public health] project is

dependent on the ability

to learn and adapt to the

local context.”

Preneta in Haiti, at left, and at Tufts

News of Giving, Growth, and Gratitude Fall 2011

Fall 2011 News of Giving, Growth, and Gratitude

5Science is endless possibilities,”

says Nicole Cherng, A10, a stellar

researcher as an undergraduate

in Tufts biologist Sergei Mirkin’s

lab, now studying for her M.D. at

the University of Massachusetts

Medical School. “What’s exciting is

there’s so much to be found,” she says.

“There’s so much to be discovered still,

so much to be created, so much that

still doesn’t make sense.”

The aspiring doctor from Westford,

Mass., is an example of the ripple effect

of philanthropy. A series of scholar-

ship awards enabled her to work three

years in Professor Mirkin’s laboratory.

Meantime, Mirkin’s teaching and

research have been supported by the

endowed professorship he holds, the

White Family Chair in Biology. The

generosity of Tufts parents John and

Penny White, J97P, A03P, A05P, bene-

the philanthropic support of donors, including the Harris Berman and Ruth Nemzoff Family Foundation; retired professor James N. Hyde; the late professor Dr. Norman Stearns; and Irma Mann.

“During my time in Ghana I quickly learned that the effectiveness of any [public health] project is depen-dent on the ability to learn and adapt to the local con-text, and on a willingness to modify your project so as to better meet the needs of the population,” Preneta says. “Too often, as I have seen in Haiti, projects are conceived in agency offices or in foreign countries without the input of local stakeholders. Not surpris-ingly, these projects are often rife with problems and perform poorly on their original objectives.”

He said SOIL is trying to build a household sanita-tion program in Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitien. The organization’s compost site in Port-au-Prince is the country’s largest waste-treatment facility, currently

serving 13,000 to 14,000 people out of a population of nine million.

Sanitation remains a huge challenge in Haiti. “Before the earthquake, only 17 percent of the households in Haiti had access to improved sanitation,” Preneta says. “It was a disaster before the earthquake. The earthquake exacerbated the problem.” Cholera, trans-mitted through the consumption of sewage-tainted water and food that has not been washed properly, has claimed the lives of 6,000 people in Haiti since last October, he says.

SOIL hopes to develop a business model for decentral-ized waste-treatment facilities funded both by small fees paid by households and by the sale of resulting nutrient-rich compost. The hope is that the model then would be taken up by the private sector or the government and put in effect around the country. “Our goal is to work ourselves out of a job,” he says.

fited the Tufts researcher whose student

now paves her own path in science.

“As a physician I hope to con-

tribute not only to day-to-day patient

care, but also to the research world,”

Cherng says. As an undergraduate,

she was lead author on a paper pub-

lished in the journal Proceedings of the

National Academy of Sciences. The paper

described findings of research done in

the Mirkin lab with potential applica-

tions in the treatment of a particular

neurological disorder, spinocerebellar

ataxia, for which there currently is no

cure. “It is remarkable for an under-

graduate student to be lead author on

a paper in the Proceedings, one of the

most prestigious scientific journals in

the world,” Mirkin says. “I am sure she

will have a bright future—and it was

a privilege to see her start her journey

here at Tufts.”

A biology major, Cherng joined

Mirkin’s lab the summer after fresh-

“I hope to contribute not only to day-to-day patient care, but also

to the research world.”

Discovery and healing

Cherng outside the UMass Medical School

man year on an eight-week research

fellowship under the National Science

Foundation’s Research Experience for

Undergraduates program. The experi-

ence led her to add a major in biomedi-

cal engineering. She continued in the

lab with support from a Russell L.

Carpenter Summer Fellowship and as a

Summer Scholar. A grant to the Mirkin

Lab from the National Institutes of

Health also provided support.

“My three years in Sergei’s lab cul-

minated in my first authored publication

and my senior thesis,” she said. “I learned

the discipline of independent research.

The amount of responsibility Sergei

gave me was very high, overwhelming

at times, but it pushed me to a higher

level of achievement than I might other-

wise have achieved as an undergraduate.

He really pushed me to learn more.”

News of Giving, Growth, and Gratitude Fall 2011

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ONE OUT OF 100 CHILDREN born today is affected by autism. And of the four mil-lion dogs surrendered to shelters every year, an estimated 2.2 million are put down.

What do these numbers have to do with each other? “Both are staggering,” says Dr. Nicholas Dodman, professor of clini-cal sciences at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. “And both could see a significant drop because of new research.”

Over the past few years, Dodman has garnered attention for groundbreaking research into the genetic roots of canine obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD) and behavioral problems, work that is aiding treatment of conditions that too often have destroyed relationships between pets and owners and have cost countless dogs their lives.

Now, with funding made possible by two longtime friends of the Cummings School, links are being explored between his research on animals and potential appli-cations in the treatment of humans with similar psychiatric disorders.

Imagine the dog genome as a giant map of a dog’s entire genetic makeup. Dodman and his team have been able to pinpoint a region on chromosome seven that helps to confer susceptibility to OCD in Dobermans. “This research found a glitch, the proverbial needle in the haystack,” he says.

The discovery, published with University of Massachusetts and Broad Institute col-laborators in Molecular Psychiatry maga-zine, has far-reaching implications. “Dog studies like this one can teach us not only about locating the genetic underpinnings of OCD in humans, but also shed light on other conditions like Tourette’s syndrome and autism,” he says. “We have found a new way of looking at the genetics of psychiatric illness in people.”

The research has led to numerous collabo-rations for Dodman, including an imaging study with McLean Hospital and work with its OCD clinic, as well as a partnership with the Translational Genomics Research Institute and collaboration with research-ers at the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Human Genome Research Institute. “We have also discussed

patents that have arisen with Yale psy-chiatric researchers who have patented similar mechanisms of OCD relevant to treatment,” he says.

Dodman has a rescuing bent. At home he has two pets he saved from a shelter, a dog named Rusty and a deaf cat named Griswold. The cat often is startled by people walking up behind him, he says, but otherwise is “living the life of Riley.”

Of the hundreds of animals Dodman has treated over the years, it was a cocker spaniel who led to key philanthropic sup-port for his research. Mac Emory and Jan Corning, animal lovers and benefactors of the Cummings School, became convinced of the value of Dodman’s work after many visits to his clinic at the Cummings School for treatment of Emory’s beloved dog. Emorys and Corning’s gifts to the American Foundation created the grants that left Dodman “blinking with delight,” he says, and have since catapulted his research to new heights. The grants have also helped close the gaps between ani-mal and human conditions and convert tragic statistics into real-life cures.

Dodman’s research has led to numerous collaborations with leading psychiatric- and genetic-research organizations, including McLean Hospital, the Translational Genomics Research Institute, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Human Genome Research Institute.

Canine research holds promise for humans

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7

My country, right or wrong!”

John Quincy Adams could

never join in the popular

patriotic toast, he wrote

his father, John, in 1816.

“My toast would be, may

our country always be successful,

but whether successful or otherwise,

always right.”

Minister to Russia, negotiator

of the Treaty of Ghent that ended the

War of 1812, shaper of the Monroe

Doctrine as secretary of state, elo-

quent foe of slavery as a congressman,

and perhaps the only major figure

in American history who knew both

the Founding Fathers and Abraham

Lincoln, John Quincy Adams is

largely remembered today only as

the younger half of the nation’s first

father-son presidential duo.

Yet he was, in fact, one of America’s great-

est statesmen, whose vision of the young

republic and its place in the world is worth

recalling today, says Alan Henrikson, the

inaugural Lee E. Dirks Professor in Diplomatic

History at the Fletcher School. “For many

years I have taken my students to the Adams

National Historic Park in Quincy to visit the

Adams family’s ‘Old House,’” Henrikson says.

“I want to give them a sense of a place where

great ideas of American foreign policy have

been formed.”

The Adams connection with his course

is longstanding. Henrikson recalls years ago

inviting a latter-day member of the illustrious

family to speak to his students on the “Adams

Tradition in American Diplomacy.” Charles

Francis Adams IV was then head of Raytheon

and chairman of the Fletcher School’s Board of

Visitors. Adams IV described an occasion when

he and his father—Charles Francis Adams III,

secretary of the Navy in the Hoover adminis-

tration—were walking together down Tremont

Street in Boston. The older Adams was intend-

ing to go one way and the younger Adams

another. As they parted, the father somewhat

abruptly said to the son, “You have inherited a

reputation for integrity. Don’t lose it.” He then

turned and walked away.

“The importance of ‘integrity’ in diplo-

macy, as in interpersonal relations, can hardly

be overestimated,” says Henrikson. The

Adamses understood the concept of integrity

as being not just moral but also intellectual,

requiring not just rectitude, but consistency,

he says. “It is also a definition of character.

Countries, too, have character.”

In a speech on the Fourth of July in 1821

John Quincy Adams described the United

States as “the well-wisher to the freedom

and independence of all,” yet “the

champion and vindicator only of

her own.” America, he said, “goes

not abroad in search of monsters to

destroy.” This was in keeping with

what he saw as the anti-imperial

precedent of the first half-century of

the young republic.

Today, of course, “interna-

tional circumstances have changed

and so has American policy,” says

Henrikson. “The power of the

United States has greatly increased

and U.S. interests have greatly

expanded.” Whereas President

Thomas Jefferson intervened against

the Barbary Pirates to protect only

Americans and their interests, the

United Nations, of which the United

States was a founding member, has

affirmed a “responsibility to protect”—an obli-

gation to defend the citizens of other countries

when their own governments do not, as in

Libya under Qaddafi, Henrikson says.

How to find that larger “integrity” in the

foreign policy and conduct of the United States

over time? This is a challenge facing the histo-

rian who sets out to reconcile past and present,

Henrikson says.

The engagement with U.S. diplomatic

history is a long and enduring tradition at the

Fletcher School, says Henrikson. He notes the

great interest in the field—and in the diplo-

macy of John Quincy Adams in particular—

that is held by Lee Dirks, F57, the benefactor

who endowed the professorship he now holds.

“For Lee, as for many other Fletcher

graduates, the subject of U.S. diplomatic his-

tory, like American diplomacy itself, has been

a lifelong source of enjoyment as well as a mir-

ror for historical reflection,” Henrikson says.

“His generosity in establishing the Lee E. Dirks

Professorship in Diplomatic History will make

it possible to continue sharing his interest and

intellectual engagement with succeeding gen-

erations of Fletcher students.”

“The importance of ‘integrity’ in diplomacy,

as in interpersonal relations, can hardly be overestimated.

It is also a definition of character. Countries, too,

have character.” —Prof. Alan Henrikson

Fletcher’s Endowed Chair for Diplomatic History a Bully Pulpit for Teaching American Foreign Policy

8

News of Giving, Growth, and Gratitude Fall 2011

Cultivating the next generation of farmers. ” That’s the motto of the Friedman School’s New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, which trains new and immigrant farmers in the business of running a commercial farm while at the same time preserving the regional food system. “It’s an awesome

responsibility for these new farmers to be growing food for people, to nourish them,” says project manager Jennifer Hashley. “I think people really find joy in that, as much hard work as it is.”

The cause is winning the school new friends who may not have a previous connection to Friedman but share a passion for healthy food, a sustainable environment, and creating economic oppor-tunities for farmers. Friedman Fund donor Linda Lee says the farming project incorporates things she and her husband, Charles Lamb, care about, such as social action and open-space conser-vation, while offering the chance to witness a “veritable United Nations of farming styles.”

With increased demand for fresh food from local sources, New Entry is equipping the next generation of farmers with the skills and business savvy to succeed. Beginning farmers go through a farm business training course and then spend up to three years learning from expert staff members on leased property with full technical assistance. After their graduation, New Entry helps farmers locate land and connects them to direct marketing opportunities. In 2010 alone, more than 300 people participated in New Entry programs—from business planning and marketing assistance to livestock husbandry trainings, among others.

For graduates of the project, creating a successful agricultural business is a way to help the community that has welcomed them. “Our farmers want to make food affordable for people in the community, ” Hashley says. The farmers tell her: “Our fields are abundant and we want to share it with people. Why not make it easier for everyone to eat fresh, healthy food?”

THE IDEA FOR A GARDEN at the

Watson Elementary School in Fall River,

Mass., came about after a first-grade

girl said her family didn’t have enough

food at home.

The school’s principal saw an

opportunity to start a garden that

would be a teaching tool as well as

a community asset. Neighborhood

residents took an interest. Some would

stop by and offer tips in Portuguese on

growing tomatoes.

Now the garden at the city’s oldest

and smallest school produces tomatoes,

cucumbers, kale, beans, squash, and zuc-

chini. It also teaches valuable lessons.

“The children learn carrots grow in

the ground and potatoes aren’t French

fries,” says Marcia Picard, Fall River

school wellness coordinator.

The garden at the Watson School

was the first of 10 community gardens

now planted in the city as a part of

the Balance Project, a community-

wide initiative led by the Friedman

School as part of its Children in

Balance program. Children in Balance

works to combat and curb the child-

hood obesity epidemic in this country

through community-based research

interventions.

Over the past 30 years, obesity

rates in the United States have doubled

among adults and tripled among chil-

dren. Physical activity levels and fit-

ness have decreased, diets have shifted

Reinventing the family farm

School’s garden helps grow healthy habits

Left to right, farm-ers and volunteers

package produce for delivery to Boston-

area distribution centers.

Carson Underwood plants parsley at the Samuel Watson Elementary School.THE

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Seeding successFall River, Mass., was one of three cities nationwide chosen to replicate key components of Tufts’ noted Shape Up Somerville model. Shape Up was a citywide childhood obesity research study that was launched by Tufts Associate Professor Christina Economos, N96, holder of the New Balance Chair in Childhood Nutrition, and fellow researchers at the John Hancock Research Center on Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Obesity Prevention at the Friedman School.

As part of the Shape Up effort, Somerville schools increased the availability of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat dairy products at school meals; local restaurants offered low-fat milk and smaller portion sizes; and the city added bike racks and repainted crosswalks to increase opportunities for physical activ-ity, such as walking and biking to school. As a result, Shape Up was the first study of its kind to prevent undesirable weight gain in children.

The success of Shape Up Somerville made international headlines and has been hailed by First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move initiative as a national model for childhood obesity prevention.

toward less healthy foods, and diseases

related to obesity and lack of fitness are

driving up health-care costs, threaten-

ing to reverse the enormous advances

in public health achieved during the last

century.

A $2.2 million grant from the

PepsiCo Foundation for the Balance

Project enabled the groundbreaking

“Shape Up Somerville” experiment to

be replicated in cities in Pennsylvania

and Florida as well as in Fall River.

So far, progress in Fall River has

been very encouraging, Picard says.

Training programs have been launched

to help community agencies support

good nutrition. Community cable

TV shows describe the benefits of

fresh local produce, and city schools

are taking part in a statewide project

encouraging children to walk to school

in supervised groups. These shifts

in community culture have played a

key role in bringing about important

behavior changes on an individual

level. For example, this summer 1,600

youngsters took a pledge to give up or

cut back on sweetened drinks; at one

school, 93 percent of the pupils took

the pledge.

“The community mindset has

changed,” says Picard. “Our aim is to

encourage children to serve as change

agents, to come home and have an

apple instead of a doughnut, and carry

a message about healthy living.”

New Entry Sustainable Farming is a comprehensive project that serves local communities as it pursues nutritional, economic, and civic goals.

School’s garden helps grow healthy habits

Carson Underwood plants parsley at the Samuel Watson Elementary School.

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WHEN DORIS YORK was growing up in Somerville in the 1920s, her father didn’t think girls should go to college. That didn’t stop her. She worked her way to a law degree from the old Portia Law School on Beacon Hill and went on to a career as a bank executive with the United States Trust Co. in Boston.

Along the way, she invested in tax-free municipal bonds. When she died in 2004 at 92, York, who never married, left an estate worth roughly $4 million. Nearly half she left to Tufts to endow a full-tuition scholarship for young women graduates of Somerville High, from which she graduated in 1929.

Now the first recipient of a Doris W. York Scholarship has gradu-ated from Tufts—and is helping a new generation of students pursue their own college dreams.

Naiara Souto, A10, counseled students at Somerville High as a member of the College Advising Corps at Tisch College. Now she has taken a job in diversity recruitment at Tufts’ Admissions Office.

Having emigrated herself from Brazil at the age of seven, Souto holds one issue especially close to her heart: her work with Latino students. “Many don’t want to move away from home or are kind

of scared that the environment is going to be too different from what they’re used to,” she says. “I get that completely, having gone from Brazil to Somerville High to Tufts. College is a whole different world.”

She recalled her own immigrant story. Breaking through the language barrier “by watching a lot of television,” she applied herself to her studies and managed to reach the top of her high school class. She and her siblings were the first in their family to aspire to college, and tuition promised to be a challenge. The York Scholarship paid her way through Tufts.

Now she is lending a hand to the students who have come after her. “When I went back to Somerville High to advise, it was satis-fying to have kids just plop down and talk to me about their frustrations and to give them a professional outlet,” she said.

“Not everyone at Somerville is on the college path—and the college path, once you get on it, isn’t always the easiest. The members of the class I just worked with are headed for their freshman year at college, and I tried my best to prepare them.

“If they have any issues, they have my phone number!”

Finding a wayThe York Scholarship gives students at Somerville High a path to Tufts

Naiara Souto at Somerville High

Fall 2011 News of Giving, Growth, and Gratitude

week BEST program on campus this

past summer.

The aim is to attract and retain

members of populations underrep-

resented at the school, focusing on

first-generation college-goers with

high financial need, says Travis Brown,

project manager for the Center for

STEM Diversity. Support for the

BEST program comes from the Dean’s

Discretionary Fund at the School of

Engineering—a beneficiary of the

Beyond Boundaries campaign.

When Corey Mason, E14, from

rural West Virginia, learned he would

receive an ROTC scholarship to study

engineering anywhere he wanted, he

wondered what may lie beyond the

“cornfields, cows, and mountains” of

Appalachia. “Tufts seemed like a good

reach for me,” he says.

Yet he wondered if finishing at the

top of his high school AP calculus class

would be enough. “I was sincerely wor-

ried about how well the math program

at my high school had actually pre-

pared me,” he said.

Mason was in the inaugural BEST

group. After what he called the hard-

est—and best—six weeks of his life, he

walked onto campus in September with

an ace in his pocket. “I went in feeling

a step ahead,” he says. “I don’t think

anyone else came in quite as prepared

as the BEST Scholars.”

Corey Mason Aliandro Brathwaite

Growing up next to the elevated

railway in Brooklyn, N.Y.,

Aliandro Brathwaite, E14, developed an early fascination

with engineering. “I’d always

lived next to a subway line, and

I was interested in how it was built,

how the very heavy trains stay on this

elevated track,” he says.

Now the kid who grew up next

to the El is pursuing his engineering

dream at Tufts. He was among eight

students in the Class of 2014 who

enrolled prior to their first semester in

a six-week summer bridge program,

created to make engineering a viable

option for talented students from

diverse backgrounds who would benefit

from extra academic preparation. They

took two classes for credit, participated

in academic and college life work-

shops, and gained an edge in their math

studies.

Six of the eight students went on to

make Dean’s List in their first year.

What is called the BEST (Bridge

to Engineering Success at Tufts) pro-

gram was piloted by the School of

Engineering and the Center for STEM

(Science, Technology, Engineering, and

Mathematics) Diversity, in conjunc-

tion with the Office of Undergraduate

Admissions. A second group of incom-

ing freshmen participated in the six-

Crossing bridgesFor these undergraduates at the School of Engineering, terms like “first-generation,” “high financial need,” and “underrepresented” describe their circumstances, not their potential.

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