Biology professor Michael Romero wins a presidential award for mentoring students underrepresented in scienceWhen Michael Romero started as an undergraduate at Swarthmore in 1984,one of only a handful of Hispanic Americans there, he was majoring in philosophy, and with law school in his future. But his first mentor there,a young biology professor, took Romero under his wing, and set him to work on a lab project—and the rest is history,said Romero, a professor of biology who has been teaching at Tufts since 1996.
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