Bucknell University Professor of History David Del Testa was a first-generation college student. He teaches courses in modern European and modern Southeast Asian history as well as courses concerning globalization and cross-cultural contact. His current research focuses on revolutionary railroad workers in French Indochina between 1898 and 1945, and he envisages future projects on people of mixed-race heritage in Indochina and science and technology in Vietnam. Bucknell's Take the Opportunity series is inspired by the Center for Student Opportunity's "I'm First" project, an online community offering support, advice and encouragement to students who will be the first in their family to reach this goal. www.imfirst.org.