Teen Becomes World's Youngest Professor

While many 18- and 19-year-olds await word from colleges, one of their peers has been accepted to a university ”” as a professor. Just days before her 19th birthday, Alia Sabur was hired to teach cell science at Konkuk University in South Korea.

Listen to it all from NPR.

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One comment on “Teen Becomes World's Youngest Professor

  1. Sidney says:

    That link didn’t work, but I found it anyway. The clip is too short to bother listening to. The summary says it all.

    So she’s a genius, but I’d say too many important (and hard to reverse) decisions were made in her life before adulthood. And I bet her parents played a big role. For every kid like this, there are planty who can’t take the pressure from parents, etc. Now that I know more about John Adams, it sounds like he was that kind of parent – John Quincy survived the expectations and thrived but the rest of the children couldn’t.