Homegrown Teachers
By emphasizing mentoring and teaching, Tufts is confronting the looming nationwide shortage of dental faculty while yielding immediate benefits for dental students.
By Jacqueline Mitchell, courtesy Tufts' Office of Publications - Photo by John Soares
After "Open wide," the most important words in Tufts' dental clinics might be these: "Let me help." This summer, volunteer third-year dental students took to the clinic floors to impart their hard-won knowledge to the anxious second-years working with patients for the first time. And this fall, new postdocs in periodontology embark on a different kind of mentoring program designed to foster a cooperative spirit among residents.
Teaching, research, advising...Wondering how to balance it all in this new academic year?
Tufts Psychology Professor Sam Sommers has some advice for new graduate students and faculty in his blog.
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As dean of Tufts' School of Arts & Sciences, Robert J. Sternberg oversees undergraduate and graduate education in 23 departments, more than 10 interdisciplinary programs and 20 masters and Ph.D. programs. 