Prof. Barazangi came to Cornell after earning his PhD from Columbia University. He is currently an active emeritus professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and the Associate Director of the Institute for the Study of the Continents (INSTOC). He also served in 1978-1980 as an associate professor and chairman of the Department of Geophysics at the Faculty of Earth Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. His interests are seismology, tectonics and lithospheric structure especially in the Middle East and Morocco.

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