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Leaders of top Iranian universities to be fired
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has instructed his Minister of Science and Technology to dismiss the heads of the Tehran and Tarbiat Modarres universities, referring to them as "possible security" concerns. - 3/18/13
The First Iranian-Armenian Earth Scientist to be Honored by the Geological Society of America
The special session honors the 40 years of Dr. Manuel Berberian's research which has contributed significantly to our understanding of the geologic evolution and active tectonics of Southwest Asia. This multidisciplinary session is expected to bring together an international group of researchers, ranging from veteran experts to students, to present and identify frontier avenues of research involving the geology, geophysics, and active tectonics of Southwest Asia. - 3/11/13
Hakim (Physician-Philosopher) Razi - A book by Parviz Azkaei
Zakaria Razi (865-925), the musician, alchemist and the father of modern chemistry, the philosopher and physician is the reviver of ancient Iranian world-views after the advent of Islam. For this reason, Parviz Azkaei's great comprehensive work on Razi's life, covering the history and socio-political conditions of his time as well was The Book that as an Iranian, I was craving for all my life. -Roya Monajem - 3/1/13
Iran is cooperating in global Human Proteome Project
A researcher of Royan Research Institute said here Saturday Iran is cooperating with 19 developed countries in the global Human Proteome Project (HPP) in the fields of medicine and science. - 2/23/13
12,000 foreign students studying at Iranian universities
Deputy Minister of Science, Research and Technology Rasoul Malkefar said on Monday February 11 that there are 12,000 foreign students studying at Iranian universities nationwide. Speaking to reporters in Bojnourd, he said these students admitted to the Iranian universities attend classes regularly. - 2/18/13
Professors Ali Khademhosseini and Hua Zhang win 2012 Small Young Innovator Awards
The "Small Young Innovator Awards" were presented to Professor Ali Khademhosseini and Professor Hua Zhang during the recent "Small Science Symposium: Frontiers in Nanomedicine" held in Singapore from 10 - 12 December 2012. Both of them presented their prize lectures to 300 delegates during the symposium - 2/12/13
Official: Iran Ranks 8th in Nano Science Production
Iran has achieved eye-catching breakthroughs in the field of nano- science and technology, an Iranian official announced on Wednesday, adding that the country is among the first eight countries in the field of nano science production in the world. - 2/7/13
CENTRE FOR IRANIAN STUDIES: Scholarships Available In Iranian Studies
The Centre for Iranian Studies Chair Arshin Adib-Moghaddam welcomed the "unique and generous" opportunity that the scholarships provide. The Kamran Djam scholarships are a part of a decisive push for Iranian Studies at SOAS facilitated by the Centre for Iranian Studies at the London Middle East Institute (LMEI). - 2/4/13
Islam and science The road to renewal
A Muslim scientific awakening is under way. And the roots of scientific backwardness lie not with religious leaders, but with secular rulers, who are as stingy with cash as they are lavish with controls over independent thought. -Economist - 1/31/13
IAAB and HAND Foundation Launch University Fellows Program For Iranian and Central Asian Student Leaders
Based on the success of IAAB's fellowship program and the HAND Foundation's awards program, both organizations have joined forces to recognize and cultivate a new generation of young Central Asian (Persian-speaking Afghan, Tajik, Uzbek) and Iranian American leaders. - 1/24/13
IAAB's Persian Language Educators' Symposium
IAAB's Persian Language Educators' Symposium brings together Persian language educators who teach heritage speakers from pre-school through high school. The educators will gather from around the United States to address shared goals, needs, and challenges in a closed, invite-only symposium in New York City from May 24-27, 2013. - 1/21/13
Maryam Mirzakhani Receives 2013 AMS Satter Prize
Maryam Mirzakhani, Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University, is receiving the 2013 AMS Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize. Presented every two years by the American Mathematical Society, the Satter Prize recognizes an outstanding contribution to mathematics research by a woman in the preceding five years. - 1/15/13
Iranian researchers reconstruct defected mandible using brain death bones, cell therapy
Researchers at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences have reconstructed the mandible using bones from brain death patients and stem cells. Dr. Mehdi Gholami, project manager, told Mehr News about the common procedures for mandible reconstruction and added "for the reconstruction of major mandibular defects, usually the hip bone is used which causes problems when walking. - 1/13/13
Persian for Beginners published in Swedish
Persiska for nyborjare is a step-by-step introduction to written and spoken Persian, which enables students to speak, read, and write the language with ease. It features 23 chapters, which are ideal for both classroom use and self-study. - 1/11/13
IAAB Announces its 2013 Summer Leadership Institute
IAAB is pleased to present its 2013 Summer Leadership Institute (SLI), which is being held from June 27, 2013 - July 10, 2013 in Whittier College outside Los Angeles, California. IAAB's SLI houses its celebrated annual Iranian American high school and middle school leadership camps, Camp Ayandeh and Camp Javan, as well as an intensive training program for university student and young professional leaders. - 1/8/13
Interview with Iranian ophthalmologist and inventor of LASIK
Gholam Ali Peyman is an Iranian scientist and a member of Ophthalmology Hall of Fame. His fame relates mostly to his invention of LASIK, an operation whereby people with limited eyesight can retain their vision without glasses. In December 2012 he was nominated for receiving the National Medal of Technology and Innovation for his innovation, LASIK. He will receive the medal officially from the President of the United States next month. - 1/8/13
Photos: With Forouzan In The Classroom
Forouzan Hezarehsin lives in the village of Sheikh Shamsoddin in Shushtar, southwestern Iran. Due to a physical disorder, she suffers from a very short height. Forouzan spent the preparatory period in a school for special children. However, since it was concluded that her disability is physical, she was transferred to a regular school starting this school year. -Zohre Oveydi - 1/3/13
Dark Sky Park to be established in Iran's Qeshm Island
Iran has plans to establish the first Dark Sky Park in the country's southern island of Qeshm to boost astronomy research and tourism at the area. - 1/2/13
Iranian researcher finds 73-million-year-old fossil near Kermanshah
Ronak Geravandi, a doctoral student and member of Scientific Board of Geology Department at Razi University of Kermanshah, has discovered a fossil belonging to Cretaceous period in 73 million years ago. - 12/31/12
Iranian physicists' 40-year-old dream comes true
Farhad Ardalan, a precursor of Iranian scientists cooperation in CERN research, has called the cooperation as the fulfillment of the 40-year-old dream of Iranians to participate in the International Laboratory For Particles Research. - 12/30/12
Iranian researchers take giant leap forward prostate and lung cancer treatment
Researchers in Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Unit, have developed a method for prostate and lung cancer treatment through combining nuclear, radio-isotope and nano-technology. - 12/29/12
Top Iranian University Sharif Among New Sanction Targets
The EU has imposed sanctions on Iran's top institution of technology, Sanati Sharif University in Tehran. Sanati Sharif University is among the 18 new institutions and companies sanctioned by the European Union. - 12/23/12
Khaneye Doost (Friend's House)
I am always surprised by how few Iranians know or have even heard about Golestan Kids. While Golestan is located in Berkeley, on a busy stretch of galleries, independent pottery studios and shops, many Iranians are not familiar with this growing and creative organization. -Salomeh Keyhani - 12/21/12
Iranian scientists use microchips to help spinally impaired walk
Scientists at the Neural Technology Center of the University of Science and Technology of Iran made standing and walking possible for patients with impaired spinal cord by producing a microcomputer. - 12/17/12
"Biruni" 2013 Graduate Student Research Award
Iranian American Physicists (IrAP) Network Group is announcing 2013 Biruni Graduate Student Research Award to promote and recognize outstanding research by a physics graduate student of Iranian heritage who is currently studying in one of the institutions of higher education in USA. - 12/10/12
Iranian official laments German press propaganda about Iran-DAAD cooperation
An official of Iran's Science, Research and Technology Ministry has lamented the German press propaganda about collaboration between Iran and the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst -- DAAD). - 12/9/12
Photos: 37 Iranian students injured in school fire accident
A fire accident in an elementary school in Piranshahr, Iran's Western Azerbaijan Province, injured 37 students on Wednesday December 5. ISNA reports that 8 of the burn victims have suffered burns of over 40 to 50 percent of their body and are in critical condition. - 12/5/12
Photos: On the occasion of Iran's National Student Day
Iran's Student Day is the anniversary of the murder of three students of University of Tehran on December 7, 1953 (16 Azar 1332 in the Iranian calendar) by Iranian police in the Pahlavi era. Every year there are local demonstrations at many Iranian universities organised by students to mark the occasion. - 12/5/12
Photos: One Student Killed, Sixteen Injured In Bus Accident In Mashhad
One student died and sixteen were injured as a bus carrying students in Mashhad, northeastern Iran overturned. This is the third such accident involving students in recent weeks.. - 12/4/12
Problem of illiteracy persists in Iran
The head of Iran's Literacy Movement has announced that more than 9.5 million Iranians over the age of six are illiterate. Ali Bagherzadeh told the Reporters Club today, Monday November 26, that one third of the illiterate population is between the ages of 10 and 49. - 11/27/12
The Biggest Wish of Sharif University's Chief: Holding A Mass Prayer On Another Planet
During an recent gathering at Sharif University of Technology, Dr. Reza Roosta Azad, Chancellor of the University, said that during the week of aerospace he was asked what his biggest wishes were. He said that he had responded that his biggest wish was to hold a mass prayer on one of the other planets, since this wish allows the both technological and spiritual advancements. Amen! - 11/26/12
14 students wounded in latest field trip accident in Iran
Another bus carrying Iranian students on a field trip to southern Iran has overturned on the road, wounding fourteen passengers. - 11/22/12
Iran and Turkey Closing in on Israel When It Comes to Science
The Iranian hacker cyber attack on American computer banks, which led American Secretary of Defense [Leon Panetta] to issue a warning of a "cyber-war Pearl Harbor attack," is part of the dramatic changes that have taken place in the last decade, in the field of scientific R&D in Islamic Middle East countries including Iran. -Yerach Tal, Al Monitor - 11/3/12
Iranian students feel the pain as currency collapses
Around 35,000 Iranian students are believed to be studying abroad this year, according to government figures, providing the economy with important skills and maintaining a link between the country and the rest of the world as it becomes increasingly isolated internationally. -Reuters - 10/17/12
Gold-loving bacteria show superman strength
"Microbial alchemy is what we're doing - transforming gold from something that has no value into a solid, precious metal that's valuable," said Kazem Kashefi, assistant professor of microbiology and molecular genetics. - 10/6/12
Iran ranks 5th in International Olympiad in Informatics
Iranian students stood at the fifth place of the 24th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) ranking held in Italy September 23-30. - 9/29/12
Iran: Ensure Equal Access to Higher Education
The Iranian government should immediately reverse policies that place unnecessary restrictions on academic freedom for university students, in particular women. Some of these "Islamicization" measures are to be introduced for the new academic year, which begins on September 22, 2012. Others have been put in place in recent years and adopted by universities across the country. -HRW - 9/22/12
Iran scraps cheaper foreign currency for studies abroad
Iran's Minister of the Economy has announced that the Central Bank will not be responsible for providing foreign currency for students pursuing their education abroad. - 9/22/12
Iranians Denied U.S. Visas Hit by Political Crossfire
A promising future in academia and business beckoned Majid Abbasi. His research on how welding affects the properties of steel earned him a doctorate from Brigham Young University and a job offer from the University of Alabama. -Business Week - 9/21/12
Schools in Iran welcome first-graders
Primary schools across Iran opened their doors on Wednesday to children who started a new experience in their lives by entering classes. - 9/20/12
Photos: A New Beginning For The Quake Hit Children
The beginning of the new academic year in Iran Wednesday morning was also a new beginning for the children in the quake hit regions in northeastern Iran. To makes this a happy start for these children, a special "blossom festival" was held at Koueik village, town of Heris. - 9/19/12
Iran, Germany sign academic MOU
Iran's Science, Research and Technology Ministry and the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst -- DAAD) have recently signed a memorandum of understanding to expand academic relations. - 9/15/12
Leave No Iranian Child Behind: From Gender Gap to Gender Panic
As young women's presence in higher education grows, so does ideological backlash. -Shervin Malekzadeh, Tehran Bureau - 9/15/12
New Burdens for Iranian Students Seeking to Study in U.S.
A provision in the latest sanctions bill, signed into law this past August, would ban visas for Iranian students seeking to study a field that will prepare them "for a career in the energy sector of Iran or in nuclear science or nuclear engineering or a related field in Iran," as determined by the Secretary of State. - 9/8/12
Secular Professors Not Wanted: Iranian Minister
The Etemad daily reported on Tuesday that Science Minister Kamran Daneshjoo says: "Universities are where human power is trained proportionate to revolutionary values and ideals." Therefore, secular professors cannot teach at universities. - 9/4/12
Momeni Foundation announces 2012 scholarship recipients
It is with great pleasure and honor to introduce our scholarship recipients for the year 2012. The following 16 individuals have been selected from a large pool of applicants. Their outstanding achievements, volunteerism and sense of community is impressive. - 9/2/12
Persian language being offered for the first time at San Jose State University this fall
This fall, San Jose State University will be offering beginning Persian language for the first time ever! With the support of a grant from the PARSA Community Foundation, we are able to offer a once-a-week, five-unit class through International and Extended Studies and World Languages. - 8/24/12
Newcastle woman teaches sign language in Iran
A deaf teacher of sign language from Newcastle has spent three weeks as a volunteer in Iran. Tessa Padden, 55, taught the basics of sign linguistics, which are common across all sign languages, and explained the importance of sign language teaching. -BBC - 8/22/12
Iranian universities close nursing to male applicants
Iran's Nursing Association has slammed the decision to restrict university nursing programs to female applicants. - 8/16/12
Iranian Science Minister to explain reduced female enrollment
The head of the Education and Research Commission of Iran's Parliament has announced that Iran's Science Minister has been summoned to Parliament to explain the recent restrictions against the acceptance of women in a number of university programs. - 8/10/12
Fewer female students admitted to Iranian university
Yazd University has limited its acceptance of women in engineering programs for the coming academic year. ILNA reports that women are now completely barred from the civil and mechanical engineering programs, and the acceptance of new female applicants is down by nearly 25 percent in several programs. - 8/9/12
Iranian women excluded from vast areas of study
With the announcement of university entrance exam results for the coming academic year in Iran, 36 universities have closed 77 fields of study to women. - 8/6/12
Iranian-American Scientist Nima Arkani-Hamed Recipient of 3 Million Dollar FPP Prize
Nima Arkani-Hamed, a scientist of Iranian heritage at Institute for Advanced Study, is among 9 scientists receiving the biggest Prize in Theoretical Physics of $3,000,000 each. - 8/3/12
Iran joins research team for nuclear fusion project
The head of Islamic Azad University's Plasma Physics Research Center says that Iran is now a partner in the development of the world's largest nuclear fusion project. - 7/23/12
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day: Teimareh Petroglyphs and Star Trails
A photo by Iranian photographer Babak Amin-Tafreshi has been seleced by NASA as the picture of the day for July 12, 2012. Engraved in rock, these ancient petroglyphs are abundant in the Teimareh valley, located in the Zagros Mountains of central Iran. They likely tell a tale of hunters and animals found in the middle eastern valley 6,000 years ago or more, etched by artists in a prehistoric age. - 7/17/12
Iran builds pilot version of accelerator
Iranian Vice President for Science and Technology Nasrin Soltankhah said the country has built pilot version of accelerator. "The macroproject is one of the long-term plans in the country which takes at least 10 years to be implemented," she said. - 6/26/12
Iran's rescue robot wins title in RoboCup competitions
Iranian Mechatronics Research Laboratory (MRL) of Islamic Azad University of Qazvin performed well in RoboCup Rescue Real Robot League competition being held in Mexico City. - 6/25/12
Iran ranks first in RoboCup Rescue Simulation league competitions
Iranian Mechatronics Research Laboratory (MRL) of Islamic Azad University of Qazvin have won the tittle of RoboCup Rescue Simulation league competitions in Mexico City. - 6/24/12
Netherlands tightens up on Iranian students, immigrants
The Dutch Foreign Minister announced yesterday that in view of sanctions against Iran, Netherlands will no longer renew or issue visa or residency applications for Iranian researchers and specialist immigrants. - 6/16/12
The Netherlands: 125 Persian Students Visa Applications on Hold
In late May of this year, the Dutch Ministry of Immigration (IND) froze approximately 125 visa applications for Iranian students. "It is because of new sanctions of European Commission against Iran." - 6/14/12
Stanford sequences the Iranian genome
When scientists started studying genomes, and then sequencing them, their work was hailed as revolutionary. But, they were mostly done in connection with Caucasian genes and some African and East Asian populations. One of the races no one studied was the Persian race. That is, until last year. -Hana Baba, KALW - 6/8/12
Photos: Transit of Venus across the Sun
People in Tehran and other towns across Iran observed the rare phenomena of transit of Venus across Sun on Wednesday morning. Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena. They occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits eight years apart separated by long gaps of 121.5 years and 105.5 years. - 6/6/12
Iran Issues List Of Banned Cities, Banned University Courses For Afghans
Iran's National Organization for Educational Testing has issued a list of university courses that are banned for Afghans living in Iran, including atomic physics, nuclear engineering, aerospace engineering, chemical engineering, and military sciences. - 6/3/12
The Fifth International Razavi Cardiovascular Congress convened in Mashhad
The Fifth International Razavi Cardiovascular Congress was held from May 30th to June 1st 2012 at the Razavi Hospital in the city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran. According to Astan Quds Razavi, 80 specialists from around the world and 400 physicians and heart surgeons from across Iran participated at the event. - 6/2/12
17 NGOs Call on Iran to Uphold the Right to Education
The signatories representing 17 human rights and student organizations express deep concern about the alarming state of academic freedom in the Islamic Republic of Iran, in particular violations of the rights to freedom of expression, association, and assembly on campuses; and institutionalized procedures that allow authorities arbitrarily to expel and suspend students, and fire graduate instructors on the basis of their political views or activities. - 6/1/12
Iran Faced With Growing Brain Drain: Report
Iranian media report that close to 62 percent of Iran's academic elite have left Iran to pursue their education at top foreign universities. The Shargh Newspaper reported on the brain drain today, saying 94 percent of the Iranian students now pursuing post-graduate degrees at prestigious universities around the world received their bachelor's degree from Iran's top university, Sanati Sharif. - 5/30/12
Iranian and US Research Institutions Announce Collaboration
Iranian and US research institutions announce collaboration agreement for scientific publications on aneutronic fusion, a possible route to cheap, safe, clean energy - 5/30/12
US Chemistry Nobel Laureate to arrive in Tehran
Chemistry Nobel Laureate Peter Agre, Professor and Director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and Dr. Norman Neureiter the Acting Director of Center for Science, Technology & Security Policy of American Association for the Advancement of Science and the first US scientific ambassador to Europe are to arrive in Tehran in coming days. - 5/30/12
Iranian Ph.D. student wins Glushko Cognitive Science Doctoral Dissertation Prize
Dr. Nazbanou Nozari finished her 2011 PhD thesis with the title of "Is Comprehension Necessary for Error Detection? A Conflict-based Account of Monitoring in Speech Production" in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois. - 5/28/12
Iran to unveil new radiopharmaceuticals with 20% uranium
Iranian scientists have already employed a radiopharmaceutical method in a bid to cure malignant liver cancer for the first time in the Middle East. - 5/23/12
Talented Iranian Students To Receive Special Marriage Gift
Currently the newlywed talented students receive 5-million rial (407 dollars) gift and this figure will rise to 10 million rials next year which will start on March 21, Nasrin Soltankhah told reporters on the sidelines of a ceremony arranged to award gifts to talented married students. - 5/21/12
Iranian Student Organizations Respond to the Remarks of Science Minister: End Education Apartheid
A student group active in defending the rights of those students who are denied higher education has criticized the policies of Iran's minister of science research and technology Kamran Daneshjoo and declared that Ahmadinejad's administration is pursuing a second cultural revolution by practicing "educational apartheid." - 5/17/12
Iran discovers 2nd indigenous microorganism
Iranian geneticist and biologists managed to discover and name the second indigenous microorganism in the country. - 5/17/12
Iranian researchers produce non-carcinogenic radiation drug
Iranian researchers at Nuclear Engineering and Physics Department, Amirkabir University in Tehran, have succeeded to gain the know-how for producing non-carcinogenic radiation drug "neodymium 140." The drug would be useful in treating some cancerous tissues as well as PET imaging system. - 5/7/12
Iranian mosques to offer day care services
The Iranian establishment has been hard at work trying to "cleanse" its education programs of so-called Western elements to put them more in line with Islamic principles, ever since Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei pointed to the infiltration of "Western values and teachings" in the education system as being at the root of the mass protests that rocked the country after the controversial presidential elections of 2009. - 5/4/12
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