In memoriam: Maryam Mirzakhani

The work of Maryam Mirzakhani 18

Maryam Mirzakhani has been awarded the Fields Medal for her outstanding work on the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.

Maryam Heydari

Researchers have shown that skilled readers use variety of strategies to comprehend written texts (Stanovich, 2000; Sweet & Snow, 2003). Hence many readers are not aware of reading strategies; there is a need of explicit teaching instruction to develop those strategies. In fact, in most English reading classes there is absence of teaching comprehension strategies to readers, the strategy usuall...

Eblen Maryam Kamvar Seton Marshall

In Memoriam-Professor Ajit K.Padhy

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Memoriam.

George W. Housner, Carl F Braun Professor of Engineering, emeritus, died after a short illness on 10 November 2008, just a few weeks before his 98th birthday. He was in the retirement home in Pasadena where he had lived for several years. For all of us who knew George, this marked the end of an era. Few people have guided and nurtured a field the way George led earthquake engineering over a per...