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No.248 SIM音読用英文

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18-Year-Old is World's Youngest College Professor
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Alia Sabur has always been a newsmaker.

She was the youngest student ever to attend college,

when she was 10,

and four years later, the youngest woman

to earn a Bachelor of Science degree

in Applied Mathematics from Stony Brook University.

By 18, she had her doctorate degree

in Materials Science and Engineering.

And now, the young New Yorker has made headlines again.

Alia Sabur has set a new Guinness World Record

as the youngest college professor in history.

She broke the nearly 300-year old record

set in 1717 by Colin Maclaurin,

a Scottish mathematician and student of Isaac Newton,

who became a professor at 19.

"Getting the Guinness World Record was really a great honor

to be in such distinguished company

as the former world record holder

who was a Newton's prodigy

and a very, very successful mathematician

in every calculus book there is.

So I'm hoping to continue the tradition

and do the best I can."

Sabur was 18 when she was hired

by Konkuk University in Seoul, South Korea

in the Department of Advanced Technology Fusion.

She says teaching students

who are older than she is

will not be an issue for her.

"My classmates have always been older than me.

My colleagues have always been older than me.

I'm kind of used to it by now.

And usually once people realize that

I really do know what I'm doing,

there isn't usually a problem."

In her new position on the Konkuk campus,

Sabur will also be a research liaison

with her alma mater - Stony Brook University in New York.

"The research I'm working on

is in nano technology.

And it involves developing nanotube-based cellular probes

for medical research

and studying cures and effective treatments

for all kinds of diseases."

Through her work - whether it's researching, teaching or public
speaking -

Sabur hopes to dispel the myth

that girls are not as good as boys are

at math and science.

Alia Sabur says she's excited about living in South Korea,

a country she's never been to before.

She hopes she will inspire more girls there

to study science,

and also encourage more international collaboration

among universities and their students.


I'm Faith Lapidus.
by danueno | 2008-06-24 17:55 | SIM音読用英文


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