CIO Magazine: Tufts received the CIO's 2001 Enterprise Value Award because it "...is the only health sciences school in the country that has integrated its curricula so that students can transcend course-, discipline- and profession-specific boundaries. "The interdisciplinary implications of this system are very powerful," Schwartz says. For example, medical students studying salmonella in humans can link to veterinary school material to learn about the source of the bacteria, its effect on chickens and cattle, ways it is transmitted to humans, prevention and treatment. "These kinds of concepts can be taught not by new courses, but by cross-disciplinary linkages so that students have a direct understanding," (2001-02-04)