Alia Sabur broke a 300-year-old record to become the world’s youngest professor. That is just one of many accomplishments in her 19 years of life.

Alia has been setting records and making history starting with reading at 8 months old. Her IQ was determined off the charts. She went from 4th grade to college, earning a B.S. in Applied Mathematics summa cum laudeÊfrom Stony Brook University at age 14, the youngest female in American history. She then earned an M.S. and Ph.D. (ABD) in Materials Science and Engineering from Drexel University. Alia is the youngest ever to receive fellowships and awards from the Dept of Defense, NASA, GAANN and NSF.

(Source: Alia Sabur official Web site)

She made an appearance on the Today Show on April 23.

Perhaps in Alia Sabur’s wildly advanced studies she came across a famous quote from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

“Knowing is not enough. We must apply,” the German writer once observed.

That could serve as explanation for what prompted the 19-year-old to become the youngest college professor in history.

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With an unlimited future ahead of her, Sabur directed her first career choice to teaching. She was three days short of her 19^th birthday in February when she was hired to become a professor at Konkuk University in Seoul, Korea.

This distinction made her the youngest college professor in history, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, beating the previous record held by Colin Maclaurin in 1717.

Maclaurin was a student of physicist Isaac Newton. Sabur said she is merely gravitating toward putting what she has learned to good use.

“I really feel I can help a lot of people,” she said.

(Source: World’s youngest professor can’t legally drink)

See also:

• Mahalo: Alia Sabur
• New York Times: Reading at 8 Months? That Was Just the Start

The creation vs. evolution debate will never be the same again.



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It was four years ago that journalist Leslie Kean brought a lawsuit against NASA to uncover documents from the Kecksburg 1965 UFO incident, in the aftermath of production of a Sci Fi Channel documentary, “The New Roswell: Kecksburg Exposed.” The documentary has since been posted online and you can watch it here. Now, after the four-year court battle:

NASA has agreed to search its archives once again for documents on a 1965 UFO incident in Pennsylvania, a step the space agency fought in federal court. The government has refused to open its files about what, if anything, moved across the sky and crashed in the woods near Kecksburg, Pa., 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

Traffic was tied up in the area as curiosity seekers drove to the area, only to be kept away from the crash site by soldiers.

The Air Force’s explanation for the unidentified flying object: a meteor or meteors.

“They could not find anything,” one Air Force memo stated after a late-night search on Dec. 9, 1965. Several NASA employees also were reported to have been at the scene.

Eyewitnesses said a flatbed truck drove away a large object shaped like an acorn and about the size of a Volkswagen bus. A mock-up based on the descriptions of local residents sits behind the Kecksburg Volunteer Fire Department.

UFO enthusiasts refused to let the matter die and journalist Leslie Kean of New York City sued NASA four years ago for information.

“This is about the public’s right to know,” Kean said. “We would be doing this lawsuit regardless of whether UFO groups were interested in it or not. It’s a freedom of information issue.”

Here is the documentary, “The New Roswell: Kecksburg Exposed,” narrated by Bryant Gumbel.