Chris Rogers has been at Tufts for a million years, going there after finishing a PhD in particle-laden turbulence at Stanford. Since then, he has worked in many different fields, from musical instrument design with Steinway, Selmer, Bach, and others to wafer polishing with Intel to jet noise control with McDonnell Douglas, to engineering education with the LEGO Foundation. His longest collaboration has been with LEGO Education developing educational robots. Mostly, though, he is indebted to the NSF for many years of funding his graduate students (in all the subject areas). His current efforts are around promoting both learning the knowledge of others as well as learning to think for yourself (the former is easy to measure, the latter not so much). Finally, he has flown more than 700 parabolas on NASA 's Vomit Comet without getting sick and has six grandchildren to entertain him.