2012 Student Scholarship Award Ceremony

The 2012 IAAP Scholarship award ceremony was held on Thursday, November 8, at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland. The funding of these awards were provided solely by individual donors and companies in our community listed on this page.

  • Applicants: IAAP received a total of 37 applications, nearly all outstanding with six BS, two MS and twenty nine PhD and MDPhD applications. Of these we had 12 applications from UMD, 8 from John Hopkins University and 12 from other schools in our area and the eastern US . Many of our PhD Program applicants are graduates of Sharif, Amir Kabir and Tehran University with very high GPAs.
  • Evaluation Criteria: To evaluate applications uniformly, we used a set of rigorous criteria we developed few years ago with the following maximum  possible scorings: 
    Degree Academic Service Total
    BS and MS 60 40 100
    PhD 70 30 100

     Every application was carefully evaluated against the set of criteria and ranked according to the scores they received.  For Academics, GPA, School Program, Awards, Work/internship and publications (MS and PhD only) were considered in the scoring. For Service Criteria “social”, “academic” and “general” services to the Iranian and Iranian-American communities were included.

  • Awards: A  total of 10 awards were distributed as listed below:
    Program  No. of Awards
    BS 2
    MS 1
    PhD MDPhD and Fellow 7
    Total  10

    More detail statistics are presented below…

Pool of Applicants

Group Level No. of Applicants Percent
Group I Bachelor 6 16.2
Master 2 5.4
Group II PhD 25 67.6
Post Doc 4 10.8
  Total 37 100

 

Geographic Distribution of the Applicants

  Learning Institution No. of Applicants State Percentage
1 Johns Hopkins University 12 MD 32.4
2 University of Maryland (College Park) 11 MD 29.7
3 University of Maryland (Baltimore) 2 MD 5.4
4 West Virginia University 2 WV 5.4
5 Georgetown University 1 DC 2.7
6 George Washington University 1 DC 2.7
7 University of Virginia 1 VA 2.7
8 American University 1 DC 2.7
9 Virginia Tech 1 VA 2.7
10 Morgan State University 1 MD 2.7
11 Howard University 1 DC 2.7
12 Temple University 1 MD 2.7
13 University of Delaware 1 DE 2.7
14 Rensselaer Polytechnic University 1 NY 2.7
       Total 37   100

 

Geographic Distribution of the Applicants (By State)

State No. of Applicants Percentage
MD 26 70
DC 4 10.8
WV 2 5.4
VA 2 5.4
PA 1 2.7
DE 1 2.7
NY 1 2.7
Total 37 100

 

Pool of Applicants (By Gender)

  No. of Applicants Percentage
Male 22 59.5
Female 15 40.5
     Total 37 100

 

Contributions

Name No. of Scholarships
Dr. Payam Aghassi 2
Dr. and Mrs. Manouchehr Farkhondeh 1
Dr. Iraj Saadat 1
in honor of Faez Dashtestani 1
Shahin FC Soccer Club 1
Hossein’s Friends 1
Sole Net 2
Other Contributors 1
                            Total 10

 

Geographic Distribution of Recipients

Learning Institution No. of Recipients Percentage
University of Maryland (College Park) 3 30
Johns Hopkins University 3 30
University of Maryland (Baltimore) 1 10
University of Virginia 1 10
Morgan State University 1 10
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1 10
       Total 10 100

 

Recipients of IAAP 2012 Student Scholarship Award

    Recipients Institution
Group I (Bachelors and Masters) 1 Neda Movahed UMD
  2 Sara Movahed UMD
  3 Leili Monfared UVA
Group II (PhD and Post Doc) 1 Shadi Toghi Eshghi JHU
  2 Ali Kurd Valeshabad JHU
  3 Sahar Soleimanifard JHU
  4 Ardavan Zandiatashbar RPI
  5 Mona Asudegi UMD
  6 Amir Karami UMD
  7 Anam Ardeshiri MSU
                       TOTAL 10    
MD: 80%;        VA: 10%;        NY: 10%