Every student or any human being wants to feel connected to the research and also know that personally, they're making an impact on the world around them. Here at Tufts, we not only foster and nurture that, but we give students the tools and access to individuals to help them grow and flourish in that capacity.

Students don't just learn how to do research, they learn how to formulate the problem, they get to look at all the different perspectives and learn the technical skills that will enable them to carry out their research. But at the same time, they learn instrumental communication skills to help them work across interdisciplinary boundaries to solve these world problems.

I mentor students, that's the only reason I'm at Tufts University is because mentoring students is my passion. There's nothing more gratifying and rewarding than mentoring a student. When you mentor a student, you don't just give them wings to fly, you help them soar.

It's only through the most cutting-edge and world-class facilities that students can attack the most difficult and challenging problems. And so the resources and facilities and instrumentation available at Tufts is among the best in the world. And so students that come here are able to attack those problems in part because of those world-class facilities.

Students at Tufts are pursuing independent research projects all the time, and sometimes come up with something that is their own idea or some unexpected result. And that can really change or direct a research project in a way that we as faculty, never envisioned. And so by working collaboratively between faculty and students, we can push that research up to an even more impactful level.

Our size makes interdisciplinary research easier to carry out than it is that larger institutions. Research is what really brings together the undergraduate students, the professional masters students, the PhD students, professional doctorate students, and connects also across the different schools at Tufts as well. And what ties us and brings us all together is our pursuit of new knowledge, our pursuit of trying to explain phenomena in the world.