Hello! I am a multidisciplinary designer and have been with the Laidlaw Foundation for over five years, working to strengthen our global Scholar community and amplify the impact of our programmes. My work lives somewhere between design, education, and anthropology, usually with sticky notes involved. I studied Human Sciences as an undergrad and recently finished a Master’s in Anthropology, both at UCL.  Born and raised in Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 Outside of work? Probably in the ceramics studio or a yoga class. Big fan of nature and very small bugs.

Undergraduate student studying Environmental Engineering. Main areas of interest are in Public and Environmental Health, WaSH, and human-centered urban design.

I'm an alumni from Tufts University, I majored in cognitive and brain sciences. My project is titled 'The Neuroscience of Intellectual Disability', and through multiple molecular biology techniques my lab aims to better understand the effect of β-catenin and Adenomatous Polyposis coli Protein (APC) malfunction on intellectual disabilities. I do most of my work at the Michele Jacob Lab, in the Tufts School of Medicine in downtown Boston. I'm now working at the Martinos Center on Alzheimer’s research.

Hi everyone! I'm a senior at Tufts University majoring in Clinical Psychology and American Studies. My research through Laidlaw looks at the neuroimaging data of veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and their response to ambiguous emotional stimuli.

👋 Hi there, my name is Georgina. I am a Laidlaw Alumni and a graduate from University College London. It's a pleasure to meet you!

I am a Tufts University Cohort 1 Laidlaw Scholar and started the program in the summer of 2018. I have been working on my research project in Dr. Amy Yee’s lab since my freshman year in 2017, testing the effects of a novel combination treatment on Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) in a mouse model. My project specifically looks at the treatment’s effects on the tumor’s gene expression and immunogenicity, trying to determine the mechanism for how the treatment works. When I was six years old my mother was diagnosed with TNBC, and as I grew older I always dreamed about doing TNBC research. Even though my mom is now a fifteen year survivor, TNBC is the most aggressive form of breast cancer and many others are not as fortunate as her. I applied to the Laidlaw program in order to really dive into the research at the Yee lab, further progressing their work with this promising new treatment. I have loved that the Laidlaw program has allowed me to take on more personal responsibility, and it has inspired me to complete a Senior Honors Thesis at the Yee lab as well as pursue global health research at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. My Laidlaw results will also be included in a research article that we hope will be published soon! I am hopeful that by completing my Senior Thesis work I will be able to help progress the project further and get one step closer to a clinical trial. Outside of the lab, I am a senior premed student from New Hampshire majoring in Biology as well as Child Study and Human Development. On campus, I am a Women’s Club Lacrosse Captain, Chief Administrative Officer for Kappa Alpha Theta, and a council member for the Club Sports Student Council. In the greater Tufts community I also volunteer for Junior Jumbos, Somerville Parks and Recreation Girls Youth Basketball Program, and Tufts Medical Center. I am passionate about medicine, oncology, and children, and dream to become a pediatric oncologist or pediatric emergency medicine physician.

As Associate Provost of Tufts University, Dr. Dawn Geronimo Terkla oversees the Offices of Institutional Research & Evaluation (OIR&E); The Center for Enhancement of Learning & Teaching (CELT), and the Tufts Laidlaw Scholars Program: serves on the USAID funded EPT2 One Health Workforce Project; provides guidance across the university on issues relating to institutional research, outcomes assessment, and evaluation; provides critical management information to senior administrators; and serves on university-wide committees (Academic Council, Administrative Council, Social Science IRB, Tufts IT Steering Committee, Information Stewardship Sub-committee, Student Information Steering Committee, as well as, co-chairing the University-Wide Committee on Teaching and Faculty Development. Dr. Terkla is the University Accreditation Liaison Officer to the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE). In addition, she participates in school-level accreditations, providing support as needed. She has held leadership positions in several organizations serving as President of both the North East Association for Institutional Research and the Association for Institutional Research, as well as the Chair of the US Department of Educational National Postsecondary Executive Committee (NPEC) Council on Postsecondary Education Statistics. In addition, she has served on the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium Board of Directors, the UCLA/ACE Cooperative Institutional Research Program Advisory Committee, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities Commission on Policy Analysis and the National Student Clearinghouse Advisory Committee. Dr. Terkla earned a doctorate in higher education research from Harvard University, a Masters of Public Policy from the University of California Berkeley, and a bachelors degree from Ohio Wesleyan University where she majored in politics and government. In addition, she was awarded a management certificate from the Management Institute for Women in Higher Education.

I am a senior at Tufts University studying physics with a research focus on soft matter and the sphere packing problem.