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…
Manuel Berberian is an Iranian-Armenian earth scientist. He was born on the 27th of October, 1945 into an immigrant Armenian family in Tehran. He specializes in earthquake seismology, active faulting and folding, active tectonics, continental tectonics, historical seismicity, archaeoseismicity, earthquake hazard minimization, geological mapping, and environmental science and engineering. Biography Barbarian was born on October 27,…
