Meet the Youngest Professor in the World: Alia Sabur
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EARLY CHILDHOOD/EDUCATION
Alia Sabur was born on February 22, 1989 in New York, United
States. She finished her elementary school at age 5. From fourth grade, she
jumped into the University and graduated with a B.SC ( Summa cum laude) in Applied Mathematics from Stony
Brooks University, NewYork at age 14.
MAKING HISTORY
Sabur continued her education at Drexel University where she
earned an M.SC and a Ph.D. Three days before her 19th birthday, she
officially became the youngest Professor in history toppling the previous
record held by Colin maclaurin, a sudent of Isaac Newton in 1717.
HER CONTRIBUTIONS
Alia Sabur has done ground breaking work towards developing
nanotube-based cellular probes for use in medical research. She is also
interested in an avenue to develop non-invasive optical blood glucose meters
for people with diabetes. She gave her idea for stopping the Gulf of Mexico oil
leak. Her plan calls for Welding deflated
auto tires to a pipe, inserting the contraption into the gusher and
inflating the tires with hydraulic fluid to form a Seal.
VARIED INTERESTS
Aside from her unprecedented academic achievements, Sabur
has a black belt in the Korean Martial art of Taekwando and is also a music prodigy.
She enjoys performing as an Orchestral member, Chamber musician and Soloist
equally and is venturing into Cross over, Jazz and Fusion. She also likes
Reading and travelling.
CONTROVERSY
In 2008, Sabur filed a civil suit against Drexel University,
claiming that the University engaged in fraud and defamation regarding her
pursuit of a doctoral degree. In the suit , Sabur charges that Yury Gegotsi, 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. That was when she grew disillusioned with the science
World.
AWARDS/HONOURS
In 2008, the Guiness Book of Records named Alia Sabur the World's youngest professor.She is the youngest ever to receive fellowships and
awards from the department of defence, NASA, GAANN and NSF. She also received a
black belt in Tae kwon Do at the age of
9. In june 2010,Sabur appeared on CNN and Fox News to illustrate her idea,
which BP as considered as an option to helpm alleviate the deep water horizon
oil spill in the golf of mexico. Alia was named a Yamaha young performing
artist (the youngest ever ), and winner of the Greenwish village Orchestra and
Oklahoma university clarinet symposium competition. Others awards are:
Golden key international society,(Top Senior
Award 2003)
AFRL, Edwards Air force Base, Research, 2004.
Global Human Resources Forum, invited speaker
seoul, South Korea 2008.
Delegate to Asia Society Young Leaders summit,
Tokyo Japan 2008.
HER PHILOSOPHY
Sabur believes in the application of knowledge and that is
why she has a great passion for teaching and research. Her favourite quote is
“knowing is not enough, we must apply” (Johann Wolfgang). Alia tries to be a role
model for Young people especially girls by breaking the stereotype that
Scientists are nerdy. She is an inspiration to many Youths around the World.
