Houchang Esfandiar Chehabi Ph.D is a scholar of Iranian studies at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University where he is Professor of International Relations and History Chehabi is Iranian-German and was born in Tehran, Iran. He is a former Harvard faculty member, as well as UCLA. He received his MA and DPhil from Yale University. His publications focus on Iran and…
Jennifer Tour Chayes is dean of the college of computing, data science, and society at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Berkeley, she was a technical fellow and managing director of Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which she founded in 2008, and Microsoft Research New York City, which she founded…
Mina J. Bissell is an Iranian-American biologist known for her research on breast cancer. In particular, she has studied the effects of a cell microenvironment, including its extracellular matrix, on tissue function. Early life and education Bissell was born in Tehran, Iran and brought up in an educated and wealthy family. By the time she graduated…
Dr. Hamid Akbari has served in many executive positions including Dean of College of Business at Winona State University and School of Business at Carroll University. He has also served on many community boards, including as the Chair of the Board of Directors of Winona Community Foundation. Dr. Akbari received his Ph.D. in Business…
