Majid Sarmadi is currently Rothermel Bascom Professor at UW. He received his PhD from Virginia Tech in 1986 in Textile Science, is the author or coauthor of more than 60 papers and holds four patents.
As an Iranian American who was deeply saddened by September 11 and the loss of thousands of innocent lives, professor Sarmadi has tried to use his religious background to bring people of different faiths together. He has given many presentations to churches, service clubs, and high schools in southern Wisconsin. In his program on Iran, he will address the question "What do we really know about the country that we might attack?"