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    DR. SEVADA CHAMRAS TO BE HONORED BY GLENDALE COLLEGE

    asbarez
    Wednesday, August 29th, 2012

    Dr. Sevada Chamras

    GLENDALE-Glendale College Foundation nominated Dr. Sevada Chamras
    for the 85th Anniversary Alumni of Distinction Award for Glendale
    Community College. The award will be presented on October 20 during
    a gala banquet marking the 85th anniversary.

    Sevada was born and raised in Iran and migrated with his family to the
    US in 1989. As a student at GCC, he fell in love with chemistry after
    taking classes with such distinguished professors as Dr. Larry Byrd
    who was his mentor and inspiration. Sevada continued as a transfer
    student to complete his undergraduate studies and obtain a bachelor's
    of science in Chemistry at UCLA and pursued his goal of becoming an
    organic chemist at UC, Santa Barbara where he did an outstanding job
    on theoretical study of the mechanisms of organic reactions.

    Receiving a graduate degree in chemistry was his academic goal, and
    becoming an excellent teacher was his vocational dream. He started his
    teaching career first at Toll Middle School as a science teacher where
    he inspired young scholars to become interested in science. While at
    Toll, he taught part-time at GCC and because of the quality of his
    work, was given an opportunity to substitute a full-time instructor
    for a semester. Pretty soon, Dr. Sevada Chamras obtained a full-time
    tenure-track position in Cerritos College where he worked for five
    years.

    However, GCC called him back, and Dr. Chamras willingly left his
    tenured position at Cerritos to come back in 2007, where he has been
    teaching organic chemistry Dr. Chamras has become a valuable asset
    to the college and to the chemistry department.

    In 2010, he spearheaded a project in receiving and transporting badly
    needed laboratory supplies and instruments from Spectrum Chemicals
    (Los Angeles-based Company) that resulted in donations of a retail
    value of $120,000.

    Dr. Sevada Chamras continues to be concerned about the difficult
    budget situation for Glendale Community College and is supportive of
    the fund-raising goals of the 85th Anniversary.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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