Iran Arrests Student Activists Ahead Of Student Day
Iran has increased its pressure on student activists ahead of the national Student Day on December 7. Throughout Iran a dozen students are reported to have been jailed this week, including eight student activists arrested in Tehran on November 19. - 11/20/09
Iran to launch Mesbah 2 satellite in 201
Iran is to launch another research satellite, the Mesbah 2, in 2011 as part of the country's effort for an independent space program. "We have developed our capability to launch satellites," Iran's Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Reza Taqipour, told the Fars news agency on Thursday. - 11/20/09
Winners of Avicenna International Awards announced
A Hungarian scholar and four Iranian researchers have won the Avicenna International Awards. The winners were announced Friday in Hamdan during the closing ceremony of the three-day Festival of Avicenna Theosophy. - 11/14/09
Oxford defends establishment of Neda Agha-Soltan scholarship
Oxford University's Queen's College announced that, thanks to two generous gifts, it has been able to establish a graduate scholarship in Philosophy in memory of Neda Agha-Soltan, the 27-year-old Iranian philosophy student who was killed in Tehran on 20 June during the protests over the outcome of the 2009 Iranian presidential election. - 11/11/09
Starting Iran's Basij Young
A leader of Iran's Student Basij organization has announced that 6,000 Basij units will be created in Iran's elementary schools. - 11/11/09
Italian company says no launch for Iran satellite
An Italian company that helped build a communications satellite for Iran said Wednesday there are no plans to launch it, denying an announcement made in Tehran this week. Iran's government said Tuesday that it will use Italy to launch the satellite some time after March 2011, after waiting years for Russia to do the job -AP - 11/11/09
Iran to launch Mesbah satellite by March 2011
Iran will launch the Mesbah communications satellite by the end of March 2011, the director of Iranian Aerospace Industries announced on Tuesday. The low-orbit satellite will be launched from a launch pad in Italy, Mahdi Farahi told the Mehr News Agency. - 11/10/09
Iran: 271 schools in Tehran Province temporarily closed due to swine flu
Some 271 schools in cities across Tehran Province have been temporarily closed due to the swine flu epidemic, the Tehran Education Department's public relations officer for provincial cities said on Saturday. The Health Ministry has said 23 citizens have died of the H1N1 virus so far. - 11/8/09
Iran: Leaders of Advar Tahkim Student Group Arrested
At about 7pm on Tuesday night security agents in Tehran arrested three leadership members of the student alumni opposition group known as Advar Tahkim Vahdat. The three members of the organization's central council, Hassan Assadi Zeidabadi, Mohammad Sadeghi and Ali Malihi were taken to prison on Tuesday night. - 11/5/09
Photos: National Electric Cars Competition of Iranian Universities
The finals of the national auto design competition among Iranian university students were held in Tehran in mid-October. This year the competition's subject was two-passengers electric cars. 89 students teams from 19 provinces registered in the competitions. 72 teams completed the design phase, and 52 teams made it to the production phase. -Photos by Alireza Sotakbar, ISNA - 11/3/09
Iranian Researchers Create Green Mice
Iranian scientists have created green-glowing mice to demonstrate their expertise in sophisticated genetic-engineering techniques. - 11/3/09
Photos: Iran takes first place in Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad
Iran came first in the third round of International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) for high school students receiving four gold, two silver and one bronze medals. - 10/27/09
Nina Mohadjer: Making Education Work in Ridgefield
Born in Iran, raised in Germany, and a resident of Ridgefield Connecticut since 1995, Nina Mohadjer is a candidate for the Board of Education. The election, which will be held in November, marks the first time an Iranian American is running for public office in the State of Connecticut. - 10/26/09
Iran: Student Activist on Trial
Mohammad Pour Abdollah, a male student arrested in February in Iran's capital, Tehran, is now on trial, apparently on charges related to national security for his activities in an Iranian student organization. He is still detained in Qezel Hesar Prison near Tehran and is likely to be a prisoner of conscience. Two other members of the same organization arrested in March have been released. - 10/26/09
Iran universities target of conservative attacks
Tehran's Friday prayers, led by Kazem Seddighi, focused on "cleansing" the universities as a means of putting an end to the recent unrest. Mr. Seddighi claimed: "There is need for another revolution in the universities, like the first one." - 10/24/09
International Education Corporation Named as One of the Fastest Growing Companies
"We are pleased to make this list and grouped amongst such extraordinary corporations as Orange County is home to many of the country's best corporations," says Fardad Fateri, President and Chief Executive Officer of International Education Corporation. - 10/21/09
Iran plans to send living creatures to the space by 2025
The official also announced three Iranian universities are building three new satellites weighing 75, 65 and 50 kilograms for photography, remote sensing and telecommunication goals. - 10/21/09
Protests continue in Tehran University
Iran's former minister of culture, Safar Harandi's speech at Tehran University became the target of student protests today. An eyewitness has informed Zamaneh that these claims raised the students' protests. Zamaneh was also told that the number of student protesters was about 1500 who were chanting : "Government risen from a coup; Resign! Resign!" and "Death to the dictator!" - 10/20/09
Photos: Third IOAA competition opens in Tehran
Coincident with the International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009), the Third International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) kicked off officially in Tehran on Sunday afternoon. 20 teams from Belarus, Indonesia, Poland, Bangladesh, Greece, Brazil, Lithuania, China, Sri Lanka, South Korea, India, Cambodia, Slovakia, Bolivia, Serbia, Romania, Kazakhstan, and Thailand, as well as Ukraine are participating in the event. - 10/19/09
Tehran's Azad University Rises Against Iran's Coup Government
On the third week of the new academic year in Iran, thousands of students from the main campus of Azad University in Tehran held several peaceful demonstrations protesting the coup government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In the demonstrations that were attacked by Basiji and plain-clothes agents, students changed anti-government slogans protesting the conditions prevalent in the country and in the universities, while also insisting on their support of Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi. -Samnak Aghaei, Rooz - 10/19/09
Iran to hold 3rd International student Olympiad on Astronomy, Astrophysics
The competition will take place on October 17-26 in Tehran as students of 20 countries will take part in the event. This is the second time that Iran is hosting an international student Olympiad after it successfully held physics Olympiad in 2007 in the central city of Isfahan. - 10/16/09
Iran: Student Protests in Tehran Violently Confronted
Student protests at Tehran Open University were confronted with violence on Tuesday October 12. Amir Kabir Newsletter reported 2000 people participated in today's protests. Reportedly, Basij forces attacked the students with pepper spray, tear gas and truncheons. - 10/14/09
Iranian scientists braced for another spaceshot
After an impressive array of developments in its space program, Iran announces that a semi-domestic telecommunications satellite is ready for launch. - 10/12/09
World Teachers Day marked in Tehran with arrest of members of Iranian teachers association
The secretary-general and 12 members of the Iranian Teachers Association were detained one day after the World Teachers Day. According to various reports, members of the Iranian Teachers Association were detained two days ago at the residence of Mr. Baghani, the association's secretary-general, and moved to an unknown location. - 10/9/09
MESA Letter Of Protest To Iranian Authorities
I am writing to you for the fourth time this year (2009) on behalf of the Committee on Academic Freedom (CAF) of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) to express our very grave concern and mounting consternation over the continued intimidation, arrests, expulsions, and unwarranted violent crackdown carried out by the Iranian authorities against peaceful student activists on Iranian university campuses, as well as the latest spate of harassment and dismissal of university faculty on grounds of political and ideological dissent. - 10/9/09
Iranian Professors Worldwide Call for Independent Ethical Conducts of their Peers In IRAN
Dear Iranian University Professors and Academic Scholars (In IRAN), We the signatories herein, representing hundreds of your compatriot colleagues in universities and research centers worldwide, do hereby reaffirm our confidence in and solidarity with YOU. - 10/9/09
Iran's next space mission announced
Iran is planning to send another research satellite into space by late March, the country's Aerospace Research Institute announced. According to Mohammad Ebrahimi, an official at the institute, the Kavoshgar III (Explorer 3) will be launched into space to carry out research and study spatial subsystems. - 10/7/09
Dr. Lotfi Zadeh, Winner of 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering
The 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering is presented to Lotfi Zadeh for his invention and development of the field of fuzzy logic, a mathematical system that captures aspects of the ambiguity of human language and thought, which has solved problems in areas such as artificial intelligence and the automated control of machines. - 10/6/09
Iran Plans to Rank among Top 10 Nanotech Countries
Dr. Sarkar, head of the Iranian Nanotechnology Initiative Council (INIC), declared that Iran can rank in the top ten pioneers of nano science and technology by 2015, provided that the government enhances and continues it supports. - 10/6/09
Iranian student activists released
The fifteen members of the central council of the student organization Unity Consolidation Bureau who had been arrested yesterday by the ministry of intelligence were released this morning. The student activists, who were in the midst of an unofficial meeting in Jamshidieh Park, intended to discuss their activities for the new academic year. They were arrested for "intent to organize an illegal gathering." - 10/5/09
A New Wave of Purges of Social Science Academicians at Iranian Universities
Following remarks by Iran's leader ayatollah Khamenei calling for a review of the "social sciences" at the country's universities, a new wave of purges and changes has been launched at Allameh Tabatabai University. According to an informed source, five prominent university professors from the law school of this university, particularly those in the fields of human rights, are now deprived of their teaching practices. -Mojtaba Eshraghi, Rooz Online - 10/4/09
15 Student Leaders Arrested In Tehran
Fifteen members of central council of the student organization Unity Consolidation Bureau have been arrested by security forces today in Tehran. The detainees have been taken to an unknown location and so far no announcements concerning their charges have been released. - 10/3/09
Iran Plans To Send Astronauts Into Space
plans to send astronauts into space and is currently conducting the relevant studies, Communications and Information Technology Minister Reza Taqipour announced on Saturday. "This project is currently under study and… (we) hope to be able to implement the project in the near future," Taqipour said at a ceremony held to inaugurate World Space Week. - 10/3/09
Iranian ministers in plagiarism row
Nature's investigation has also revealed that a paper co-authored by Hamid Behbahani, Iran's minister of roads and transportation, also contains large amounts of text from earlier articles by other researchers. - 10/1/09
Ahmadinejad Afraid of Speaking at Tehran University
While not all universities across Iran have officially begun their academic year, the news of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's plan to speak at the country's most prestigious institution of higher education, Tehran University, led to a united response from its students in rejecting the disputedly elected president by chants of "Death to the Dictator," and "Coup Government Must Resign." - 9/30/09
Photos: Protests at Sharif University in Tehran
Following the protests yesterday at Tehran University, this morning (September 29) a large number of students at Sharif University in Tehran, despite all the pressure and threats from the security forces, also participated in the protest against Ahmadinejad and his coup administration. Students were carrying Green symbols and chanting slogans in support for Mousavi and other reform figures and against the coup administration. - 9/29/09
Student Protests Against Ahmadinejad Continue In Tehran
Hundreds of students have staged an anti-government demonstration at Tehran's Sharif University, the second such protest in two days. Many students were chanting "Death to the Dictator" and "Political Prisoners Must Be Released," in reference to the more than 100 people still jailed in Iran following postelection street protests in June. - 9/29/09
Students Protest Against Government in University of Tehran
Over a thousand university students gathered in front of Tehran University's library today chanting anti-government slogans. At the start of the university term today, the university students with their green symbols expressed their support for the recent protests against the alleged vote rigging in the presidential elections. - 9/28/09
The beauty of the universe, from above and below
The 2009 Lennart Nilsson Award is to be presented to American planetary scientist Carolyn Porco and Iranian photographer and science journalist Babak A. Tafreshi in recognition of their photographic work, which – each from its own perspective – recalls mankind's place in the universe. The prize is the world's most prestigious distinction in scientific and medical photography. - 9/26/09
Iran's Science Minister Accused of Plagiarism
The science publication, Nature has discovered that "a 2009 paper co-authored by Kamran Daneshjou, Iran's science minister, are identical to those of a 2002 paper published by South Korean researchers." The 2009 article published by Kamran Daneshjou and Majid Shahravi in Engineering with Computer magazine is by implication a product of plagiarism. - 9/24/09
Iran's Campuses On Edge As University Doors Open
Iranian universities have reopened against a backdrop of simmering postelection dispute that has authorities fearing new protests and many students expecting the worst. Officials are concerned that the new academic year will allow disgruntled youths to stoke public anger over the fiercely contested reelection of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad. - 9/24/09
Islamicising Iran's Universities with Help from Young Officers
Following ayatollah Khamenei's criticism that universities were not Islamic and the condemnation of the large number of students in the humanities, remarks by some lawmakers and the newly-appointed science minister herald the implementation of the a plan to Islamicise universities in the coming academic year. -Bahram Rafiee, Rooz Online - 9/24/09
Iranian school year begins
Over 120,000 schools officially opened in Iran on Wednesday after the three-month summer holiday. The first day of school in Iran comes with its own rituals designed to help students ease into the academic year. - 9/24/09
Photos: Blossom (First Graders) Festival in Tehran
On the occasion of start of the new school year in Iran, a festival is held to welcome the first graders to schools. Following photos are from the schools in the capital city Tehran. Tehran is the largest city in the Middle East and is the 16th most populated city in the world with a population of around 7,800,000 people. -Photos by Mona Hoobehfekr, ISNA - 9/23/09
Photos: Celebration For New Students At Tehran's Sharif University
The new students entering Sharif University of Tehran were welcomed in a festive celebration held on Tuesday on the campus. Sharif University of Technology, formerly named Aryamehr University of Technology is a public university of technology, engineering and science in Iran. It is one of the most prominent science and engineering schools in Iran. -Photos by Amir Pourmand, ISNA - 9/22/09
Photos: Blossom (First Graders) Festival in Ahvaz, Iran
On the occasion of start of the new school year in Iran, a festival is held to welcome the first graders to schools. Following photos are from the schools in the southwestern city of Ahvaz. -Photos by Amin Nazari, ISNA - 9/22/09
Iran's University Students Defend the Humanities
The teaching of the humanities is often under scrutiny by governments and statesmen in various countries. It is under particular surveillance by those rulers and statesmen who are constantly afraid of the of dissemination of beliefs contrary to theirs. They do their utmost to set the direction and outlook of this field. -Abuzar Zaman - 9/21/09
Academics concerned about the assault on Iranian Universities
We the undersigned, academics and administrators of universities around the world express our deep concern about the deteriorating situation of universities in Iran, particularly in the aftermath of the recent Presidential elections. All signs indicate that the authorities are engaged in a major crackdown on Iranian universities and intend to impose yet more infringements on academic freedoms. - 9/18/09
As Students Return, Iran's Regime Braces for More Protests
The authorities know that street demonstrations could easily flare up again, considering that some half-dozen universities crowd Enqelab (Revolution) Boulevard alone, site of a millions-strong silent march in June. But can the students dent the hard-liners' seemingly armored position of power? -TIME - 9/18/09
Nanotechnology: Iranian researchers improve surface properties of graphite
Seyed Mohammad A. S. Sheikholislami, a PhD student of Iran University of Science and Technology, proposed a novel yet simple method for coating graphite by nanocarbon and managed to improve surface properties such as surface wettability to an acceptable extent. - 9/13/09
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