 During his time at Columbia he has mentored 22 PhD students, although he tends to focus more on undergraduate education.As part of Columbia University, he along with Darcy Kelley, a professor of biological sciences, pushed for and succeeded in creating a new science core curriculum class called "Frontiers of Science", which is claimed to "make (students) aware that they can think about problems the way scientists think about problems".Rather than being taught by a single professor on a single topic, "four scientists in different disciplines deliver a series of three lectures each describing the background, context, and current state of an area of research".