2023-2024 Recipients

The Board of Directors of the Iranian-American Scholarship Fund (IASF) would like to extend our sincere thanks to all who have supported this Scholarship Fund for the past 24 years. Scholarships for the 2023-24 academic year will be awarded to 16 outstanding applicants. This brings our total to 395 scholarships awarded to date. Congratulations to this year’s outstanding recipients.

2023 Graduate Recipients

Aaron Abrishami, Florida Int. Medicine                                          

  • The Behrooz and Nasrin (Owsia) Akbarnia Annual Scholarship
  • The Mahmood and Fereshteh Mahdavi Annual Scholarship

Alexander Barkhordar, UC Berkeley – Law   

  • The Massih and Haleh Tayebi Annual Scholarship
  • The Belghys Tayebi Annual Memorial Scholarship (1)
  • The Habib Tayebi Annual Memorial Scholarship (2)

Farshid Bazmandegan, UCLA – Master of Fine Arts

  • The Soheil Nasiri Annual Memorial Scholarship (3)
  • The Susie and Kazem Niamir Memorial Scholarship (4)

Arash Dabestani, NYU- Creative Writing                              

  • The Payam Scholarship (5)
  • The Minoo Ameli Sohaey Memorial Scholarship (6)

Aliyah Kazemaini, UCLA – Law    

  • The Farhang Mehr Memorial and Parichehr Mehr Honorary Annual Scholarship (7)
  • The M. Ali Aghassi Annual Memorial Scholarship (8)                                                      

Sherin Ladjevardi, Charles Drew U. – Medicine         

  • The Rointun Bunshah Annual Memorial Scholarship (9)
  • The IASF General Fund

Kamran Noorishirazi, UC Irvine – Medicine             

  • The Shokooh Foundation of Orange County              

Omid Rahimdel, Georgetown U. – Law

  • The Fred and Gita (Khadiri) Khoroushi Annual Scholarship
  • The Peyman and Maryam (Famourzadeh) Farhat Annual Scholarship

Beck Shafie, Oregon Health-Medicine                                  

  • The Hossein Samadi Annual Memorial Scholarship (10)
  • The Shokouhi Family of San Diego

Elham Shams, Nova Southern U. – Medicine                        

  • The Fatemeh Jabbari Annual, Memorial Scholarship (11)
  • The Khadijeh (Mehran) Shahid Salles Memorial Scholarship (12)

Parisa Sharif Texas College of Osteopathic- Medicine

  • The Hossain Ronaghy Honorary Scholarship (13)
  • The Hassan Julazadeh Memorial Scholarship (14) 

Hossein Zolfaghari, Rutgers U. – Medicine                           

  • The Khosrow Nasr Memorial and Shiva Nasr Honorary Annual Scholarship (15)
  • The SUSMA (Shiraz University School of Medical Sciences Alumni) Annual Scholarship
  • The Hormoz Azar Annual Scholarship

       

2023 Undergraduate Recipients

Amir Kouhpainejad, Cal Poly Pomona – Computer Science

  • The Shahri Bahador Estakhry Annual Scholarship (15)
  • The IASF General Fund                        

Arman Raghian, University of Illinois, Chicago – Biomedical Eng.                              

  • The Habib and Sharareh Hariri Annual Scholarship
  • The Jamshidi-Zadeh Annual Scholarship                                                                                                  

Dorothea Roshanne Watson, U. of Notre Dame – Architecture

  • The Manouchehr Vahidi Annual Memorial Scholarship (17)                           

Aran Zakeri, UCSD – Human Biology                        

  • The Ali Hashemi Memorial Scholarship (18)
  • The Persian Cultural Center and ISSD Annual Scholarship                  
  • The AIAP (Association of Iranian-American Professionals) Annual Scholarship

                                                      

The scholarships listed by numbers have been established by: (1) & (2) The Tayebi Family, (3) Ms. Roya Parviz and Mr. James Henderson, (4) Mrs. Maryam & Mr. James Fuller, (5) Ms. Parisa Khosravi and Payam, (6) Mrs. Shahri Estakhry & Ms Sarah E.Aghassi, Esq., Mr. Mehdi & Mrs. Zohreh Kazemzadeh, Dr. Hossein and Mrs, Mahin Ghanbari (7) The Mehr Family & Friends, (8) Ms. Sarah E. Aghassi, Esq., (9) Mrs. Zohreh Firoozabadi Bunshah, & IASF Board of Directors,  (10) The Samadi Family & Friends, (11) Mr. Gholam Jabbari, (12) The Shahid Salles Family & Friends, (13) Mrs. Shahri Estakhry & Ms Sarah. E. Aghassi, (14) The Julazadeh Family, (15) The Nasr Family & Friends, (16) Ms. Sarah E. Aghassi, Esq. (17) The Vahidi Family and Friends, (18) The Hashemi and Mehrayin Families.

 

Our sincere thanks to the following (and those who wish to remain anonymous) for making the 2023-24 Scholarships Possible: Sarah Aghassi, AIAP, Behrooz and Nasrin (Owsia) Akbarnia, Ladan Akbarnia, Amazon Smile, Ahmad Amoli, Antonio Jr., Yasmin Behboudi, Bright Fund, Charities Aid Foundation, Zelda Challgren, Shahri Estakhry,  Raha Etemadi Al Aga,   Maryam & Ray Farhat,  Edward French, General Electric, Steven Gerken, Hossein & Mahin Ghanbari, Kamyar Ghassemi, Hashemi Family, Elham Jafari, Massi Jafarzadeh, Julazadeh Family, Shahrzad Julazadeh, Aliyar Katouzian, Gita and Fred Khadiri, Mehdi & Zohreh Kazemzadeh,Reza & Mitra Madjidi, Mahmood & Fereshteh Mahdavi, Kourosh & Farnaz Mehrayin, Pedram Missaghi, Michael and Taraneh Moody/Azar, Masoud Moradi, Maryam Niamir & Richard W. Fuller, Roya Parviz, Arman & Mahsa Vahidi Paymai, Price Philantropies Foundation, Haleh Razzaghi, Atoosa Sabet, Niki Shabrokh, Shiraz University. Shokooh Foundation of Orange County, Shokouhi Family of San Diego, SUSMA, Nima Taherzadeh, Massih & Haleh Tayebi, Vaghefi Family, PCC, Athena Watson, Shadzi Williams, and Sholeh & Bijan Zayer.