{"id":8561,"date":"2020-01-08T16:06:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T21:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=8561"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:48","slug":"biology-department-mourns-the-loss-of-fareed-arasteh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2020\/biology-department-mourns-the-loss-of-fareed-arasteh\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology Department Mourns the Loss of Fareed Arasteh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Biology Department Mourns the Loss of Fareed Arasteh\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The Department of Biology is mourning the tragic loss of two members of our community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fareed Arasteh, a PhD student in biology, and biology alumnus Mansour Pourjam, were aboard the Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Tehran killing all 176 passengers and crew, including 63 Canadians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"305\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Fareed-Arasteh-240x305.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Fareed-Arasteh-240x305.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Fareed-Arasteh-160x203.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Fareed-Arasteh.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fareed was on his way back to Canada to resume his PhD studies in Ashkan Golshani\u2019s lab. Fareed joined us in 2019 as a PhD student.&nbsp; He will be remembered as a very hard working student\/colleague who was striving to make an impact in his field. He will be greatly missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ottawa Citizen wrote about Fareed, after speaking with his PhD supervisor and a longtime friend. The article can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/tehran-crash-carleton-phd-student-married-days-before-fatal-flight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our thoughts are with Fareed\u2019s and Mansour\u2019s families, friends and colleagues at this difficult time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read the full message from the President, see the Carleton Newsroom spotlight <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/2020\/carleton-university-mourns-tragic-loss-of-two-members-of-our-community\/?utm_source=homepage&amp;utm_medium=spotlight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To honour the victims of Flight 752, a fund has been established which will continue their legacy. All donations to this fund will be matched dollar-for-dollar by Carleton University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To donate, please visit the Carleton FutureFunder online: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurefunder.carleton.ca\/giving-fund\/in-honour-of-the-victims-of-flight-752\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/futurefunder.carleton.ca\/giving-fund\/in-honour-of-the-victims-of-flight-752\/<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Biology is mourning the tragic loss of two members of our community. Fareed Arasteh, a PhD student in biology, and biology alumnus Mansour Pourjam, were aboard the Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Tehran killing all 176 passengers and crew, including 63 Canadians. Fareed was on his way back to Canada to resume [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8561"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8953,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561\/revisions\/8953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}