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Please join us on Monday, March 9th:<br>
<div align="center"><font size=4><b>STS Colloquium<br><br>
</font><font size=4 color="#0000FF">Sanctions, Containment and Science in
the Islamic Republic of Iran <br><br>
Dara Entekhabi, MIT<br><br>
</font><font size=4>4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095<br>
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ABSTRACT: As part of the STS colloquium series titled Science and
Technology in Africa, Asia, and Beyond, Professor Entekhabi will relate
his personal experiences in scientific collaborations with researchers in
the Islamic Republic of Iran. The challenges of working these
collaborations and impressions about the effects of sanctions and
containment policies on the development of science in Iran will be
discussed. <br>
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BIO: Dara Entekhabi is a professor in the MIT Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering with joint appointment in the MIT Department of
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. He was born in Iran and
obtained a doctorate from MIT in 1990. He is the director of the Ralph M.
Parsons Lab for Environmental Science and Engineering and he currently
serves as the director of the MIT Earth System Initiative. His areas of
research are satellite remote sensing, earth observations and earth
system modeling. He currently serves as the science lead for a NASA
satellite mission titled Soil Moisture Active and Passive Mission (SMAP)
that is due to be launched in 2013.<br><br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390<br>
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