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Jamshed Bharucha is Distinguished Fellow and Research Professor at Dartmouth, where he is based in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences and the Department of Education. He began his academic career at Dartmouth, eventually serving as Deputy Provost and then Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences. From 2002-2011, he served as Provost & Senior Vice President of Tufts University, and from 2011-2015, as President of Cooper Union. His volunteer board activities include the Board of Trustees of Vassar College and the Board of Managers of SRM University in India. For most of his career, his research was focused on the cognitive neuroscience of music perception. His current research is on using advance data analytics to reveal patterns in the financing of higher education. His principal goal is to create a new national initiative called Education Data Science, with the objective of making higher education policy and decision-making more evidence-based.

Bharucha received a B.A. from Vassar College in Biopsychology, an M.A. in philosophy from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Harvard University. He is an avid amateur violinist, having received an Associate’s Diploma from the Trinity College of Music in London. He lives in Hanover with his wife Jessie and son Arthur.

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