Meet The Youngest Professor in the World PICTURES
Meet The Youngest Professor in the World PICTURES
Meet The Youngest Professor in the World PICTURES. The youngest
professor in the world is the female genius, 19 year old, Alia Sabur.
Alia Sabur (born February 22, 1989) is an American
materials scientist and
attorney.
Sabur was born in
New York City,
New York. Her mother, Julie Sabur (born Kessler), worked as a reporter for News12 Long Island until 1995.
She married Mohammed Sabur, a Pakistan native, in 1980.
Alia,
born on February 22, 1989, showed early signs of giftedness. She tested
“off the IQ scale,” according to an educator who tested her as a
first-grader.
As a fourth-grader, she left public school and was admitted to
State University of New York at Stony Brook at the age of 10, later graduating
summa cum laude at 14. She also received a black belt in
Tae Kwon Do at the age of 9.
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Mathematics career
After Stony Brook, Sabur attended
Drexel University where she received her
M.S. in 2006. Alia is recipient of the 2007 Dean fellowship from Drexel University.
In 2007 she took a temporary position at
Southern University in
New Orleans after
Hurricane Katrina.
On 19 February 2008, at 18 years of age (3 days before her 19th
birthday), she was appointed to the position of International Professor
as Research Liaison with Stony Brook University by the Dept. of Advanced
Technology Fusion at
Konkuk University in
Seoul,
South Korea.
The position was a temporary, one-year contract which she chose not to renew.
The
Guinness Book of World Records named Sabur the World’s Youngest Professor.
She began her position at the Department of Advanced Technology Fusion at
Konkuk University in June 2008 and returned to her hometown of New York early 2009, without renewing her contract.
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
In June 2010 Sabur appeared on CNN and Fox News’
Hannity to illustrate her idea, which
BP considered as an option to help alleviate the
Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico.
Graduate school controversy
In 2008, Sabur filed a civil suit against Drexel University, claiming
that the university engaged in fraud and defamation regarding Sabur’s
pursuit of a doctoral degree. In the suit, Sabur charges that
Yury Gogotsi,
her former Ph.D. advisor, improperly used her research to apply for
grants, and deliberately obstructed her degree. Trial proceedings began
on August 9, 2010.
“But that was when I grew disillusioned with the science world. I saw
bad conduct and realised that some professors weren’t motivated by a
love of science. I fell out with the adviser who was supervising my PhD.
I sued Drexel University in a civil lawsuit and the case has now gone
into private, binding
arbitration.
I believe my adviser applied for grants and patents using my ideas, and
took credit for them. He denies this and has accused me of stealing his
work. Even though the university has cleared me of plagiarism it has
still refused to award me my PhD.”, says
Financial Times article.
This is the second lawsuit involving the Sabur family. In the
previous one Alia Sabur’s “parents brought suit on behalf of their
daughter and alleged that defendants board of education, its members,
and the school district failed to provide their daughter with
appropriate educational services in violation of the Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act”.
Six of the seven counts were dismissed.