Jamshed Bharucha is a prominent cognitive neuroscientist and innovative educator who has served in prominent leadership roles in higher education in the United States and abroad.
Currently he is Vice Chancellor of Sai University (SaiU), in Chennai, India’s youngest University, He previously was the inaugural Vice Chancellor of SRM University, Andhra Pradesh, India.
He is President Emeritus of Cooper Union, having served as its 12th President of Cooper Union from July 2011 through June 2015. After spending 2015-2016 at Harvard, Bharucha was appointed Distinguished Fellow at Dartmouth, where he taught in two departments: Education and Psychological & Brain Science
Previously Bharucha was Provost and Senior Vice President of Tufts University and Professor in the Departments of Psychology, Music and in the Medical School's Department of Neuroscience. Prior to Tufts he was the John Wentworth Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Dartmouth College. His research is in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, focusing on the cognitive and neural basis of the perception of music. He was editor of the interdisciplinary journal Music Perception and was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
SaiU’s stated mission, is to “equip students with advanced skills to prepare them for the present and the future. Combining the academic rigour of traditional learning models with the pace and disruptive potential of technology, SaiU aims to accelerate pedagogic innovation and usher in a new era of learning in India.”
I will be joining Vice Chancellor Bharucha as SaiU’s Professor of Practice in International Relations, serving on SaiU’s International Advisory Board and advising in the creation of its Synaptic Institute of Interdisciplinarity. This initiative will resonate Synaptic Scholars, a program I created with Jamshed’s support and engagement at the Institute for Global Leadership when Jamshed was the Tufts University Provost.
The Institute created many innovative programs with his encouragement and involvement, Professor Turhan Canli’s workshop, Neuroethics and Homeland Security; our Track II diplomatic effort, “Iraq Moving Forward;” and of course, Tufts’ first intramural Cricket team.
