Western remembers the lives of four graduate students - Hadis Hayatdavoudi, Milad Nahavandi, Ghazal Nourian and Sajedeh Saraeian - who died aboard Ukraine International Flight PS752.
Western remembers the lives of four graduate students - Hadis Hayatdavoudi, Milad Nahavandi, Ghazal Nourian and Sajedeh Saraeian - who died aboard Ukraine International Flight PS752.
To Chemistry professor Jamie Noël’s mind and memory, Hadis Hayatdavoudi will always be the courageous, smiling student who first knocked on his office door to start PhD studies in September 2018.
When Milad Nahavandi first contacted Western professor Charles Xu in 2017 about becoming a grad student, Xu wasn’t sure if he was on the up-and-up. Nahavandi was simply too good to be true.
The youngest of three children, Ghazal Nourian was enfolded throughout her life by family whose goal was to provide a foundation for “the best future for her." Their collective hope lay in North America, and Gazhal’s family together supported her choice of Western.
Last week, a group of friends gathered at the airport to wish Sajedeh Saraeian and her husband, Mohammad Javad Mianji well on their new adventure in Canada. The couple were excited, optimistic about life and the future. “Now, all of those motives, hopes and wishes are gone forever.”
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