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PROFESSOR TEEN
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Islamic Horizons
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July 1, 2008
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According to the "Guinness Book of World Records," Alia Sabur, 19, is the youngest full-time college professor in history. (The previous record had been Colin Maclaurin, a student of physicist Isaac Newton, back in 1717.) The child prodigy enrolled at Stony Brook University at age ten and played clarinet with the Rockland Symphony Orchestra when she was only eleven years old. When the New York child genius was fourteen, she earned her bachelor's degree. Sabur then attended Drexel University, where ...
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