Background
Sabur was born in New York City, New New York Her mother, Julie Sabur (born Kessler), worked as a reporter for News12 Long Island until 1995.
Sabur was born in New York City, New New York Her mother, Julie Sabur (born Kessler), worked as a reporter for News12 Long Island until 1995.
After Stony Brook, Sabur attended Drexel University where she received her Master of Surgery in 2006.
She holds the record for being the world"s youngest professor Alia, born on February 22, 1989, showed early signs of giftedness. She tested "off the intelligence quotient scale," according to an educator who tested her as a first-grader.
As a fourth-grader, she left public school and was admitted to State University of New York at Stony Brook at the age of 10, later graduating summa cum laude at 14.
She also received a black belt in Tae Kwon Do at the age of 9. Alia is recipient of the 2007 Dean fellowship from Drexel University.
In 2007 she took a temporary position at Southern University in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. On 19 February 2008, at 18 years of age (3 days before her 19th birthday), she was appointed to the position of International Professor as Research Liaison with Stony Brook University by the Department of Advanced Technology Fusion at Konkuk University in Seoul, South of Korea.
The position was a temporary, one-year contract which she chose not to renew.
The Guinness Book of World Records named Sabur the World"s Youngest Professor. She began her position at the Department of Advanced Technology Fusion at Konkuk University in June 2008 and returned to her hometown of New York early 2009, without renewing her contract. In June 2010 Sabur appeared on Cable News Network and Fox News" Hannity to illustrate her idea, which Boite Postale considered as an option to help alleviate the in the Gulf of Mexico.
In 2008, Sabur filed a civil suit against Drexel University, claiming that the university engaged in fraud and defamation regarding Sabur"s pursuit of a doctoral degree.
In the suit, Sabur charges that Yury Gogotsi, her former Doctor of Philosophy advisor, improperly used her research to apply for grants, and deliberately obstructed her degree. Trial proceedings began on August 9, 2010.
"But that was when I grew disillusioned with the science world. I saw bad conduct and realised that some professors weren’t motivated by a love of science.
I fell out with the adviser who was supervising my Doctor of Philosophy. I sued Drexel University in a civil lawsuit and the case has now gone into private, binding arbitration.
I believe my adviser applied for grants and patents using my ideas, and took cr for them. He denies this and has accused me of stealing his work. Even though the university has cleared me of plagiarism it has still refused to award me my Doctor of Philosophy.", says Financial Times article.
This is the second lawsuit involving the Sabur family.
Six of the seven counts were dismissed.