Jamshed Bharucha is an Indian-American cognitive neuroscientist who has served in leadership roles in higher education in the United States and in India.
At Harvard he worked with Carol L. Krumhansl, Stephen Kosslyn, William K. Estes and Roger Brown.
[17][18] After spending 2015-2016 at Harvard, Bharucha was appointed distinguished fellow at Dartmouth, where he taught in two departments: education, and psychological & brain science.
[11] Bharucha moved to Tufts in 2002 to assume the position of provost & senior vice president.
[7][20] Bharucha launched the Summer Scholars program,[21] which provides opportunities for undergraduate students to work on collaborative research with faculty across the university and its affiliated hospitals.
Bharucha was appointed as the twelfth president of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art effective July 1, 2011.
[24] This eventually led to the attorney general's office brokering a settlement of a lawsuit filed by a group of students, alumni and faculty.