“I love working behind the scenes,” says Nick Siedentop, the curriculum director in the Office of Undergraduate Curricula at the College of Arts and Sciences, and a recent Massey Award winner.

A new paper takes a look at key outcomes after the first year of the “College Thriving” course in the new IDEAs in Action curriculum. We chatted with co-author Abigail Panter, senior associate dean for undergraduate education in the College of Arts and Sciences, about the research in this Q&A.