Alisina Bazrafshan began his journey with Laney Graduate School in 2016 after having studied at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran. He will graduate from Emory with a PhD in chemistry, leaving faculty and students with fond memories of a natural mentor.
Laney Graduate School is recognizing Bazrafshan’s work and impact in that regard by naming him the 2021 Eleanor Main Student Mentor Award recipient. Named in honor of the late Eleanor Main, a transformative leader at Emory and a devoted advocate for graduate education, the award recognizes individuals who exemplify mentoring of the highest quality in graduate education.
Shortly after arriving at Emory in 2016, Bazrafshan joined the Student Education Experience Development (SEED) program. Through it, Bazrafshan led multiple successful initiatives to promote the significance of higher education to Atlanta High School students with a focus on refugee high schoolers in the Atlanta region. From 2017 to 2019, he served as
May 8, 2021
Photographed (from left-to-right): Dr. David Blanks, Dr. Alejandra Carballo and Dr. Hamed Shojaei.
Three members of the Arkansas Tech University faculty have been recognized for their contributions to the campus community with a 2021 Faculty Award of Excellence.
Dr. David Blanks, professor of history, is the 2021 Arkansas Tech Faculty Award of Excellence winner in the scholarship and creative activity category.
Dr. Alejandra Carballo, associate professor of Spanish, received the 2021 Arkansas Tech Faculty Award of Excellence in the service category.
Dr. Hamed Shojaei, associate professor of physics, won the 2021 Arkansas Tech Faculty Award of Excellence in the teaching category.
The Arkansas Tech Faculty Awards of Excellence were founded in 1996. To be eligible, a faculty member must be tenured and hold the current rank of associate professor or professor.
Maryam Mirzakhani becomes the first woman to win the Fields Medal - the Nobel Prize of mathematics
awarded the 2014 Fields Medal today, she
created history by becoming the first woman mathematician to have achieved this prestigious honor.
Mirzakhani is also the first Iraninan and second Stanford recipient (Paul Cohen in 1966 was first) to win the prize, widely regarded as the “Nobel Prize of mathematics,” since it was established in 1936. She was awarded the Fields Medal for her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.
Officially known as the International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, the Fields Medal was presented by the International Mathematics Union today at the International Congress of Mathematicians, held this year in Seoul, South Korea.
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Iran’s government hopes to save Lake Urmia for both wildlife and recreation, including therapeutic baths in its very salty waters. HOSSEIN FATEMI/PANOS PICTURES/REDUX
After revival, Iran’s great salt lake faces new peril
Apr. 29, 2021 , 3:10 PM
Twenty years ago, geochemist Arash Sharifi began to drill sediment cores in Iran’s Lake Urmia then the largest lake in the Middle East to probe its recent climate history. “I was shocked at how little was known about the lake,” recalls Sharifi, now at Beta Analytic Inc. in Miami. He became entranced by the “very unique chemistry” of its hypersaline waters. He also grew alarmed: Dams on feeder rivers and a proliferation of illegal wells had made the lake, a favorite haunt of flamingos and migratory birds, “vulnerable to hydrological collapse,” he wrote in an internal government report.
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