Jamshed (Jay) Bharucha

Jamshed Bharucha was appointed Provost and Senior Vice President of Tufts University in 2002. As provost, Dr. Bharucha is the Chief Academic Officer of the university, overseeing the seven schools, Tisch College and cross-school programs. The provost is also responsible for driving institutional and budgetary priorities, and for academic planning.

Prior to Tufts, Dr. Bharucha spent his academic career at Dartmouth College, where he was the John Wentworth Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and served in several leadership posts, most recently as Deputy Provost and Dean of the Faculty. He has served as Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Music Perception, was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1993-94, and was a Trustee of Vassar College from 1991 to 1 999, where he chaired the Budget and Finance Committee. At Dartmouth, he received the Huntington Teaching Award in 1989 and the Undergraduate Teaching Initiative Special Award in 2002.

A psychologist who studies cognitive neuroscience and music perception, Dr. Bharucha's research has focused on the cognitive and neural basis of the perception of music, using perceptual experiments, neural net modeling, and functional magnetic resonance imagine