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Siddiqui moved to Houston, Texas, on a student visa in 1990 joining her brother.[12][35][39] She attended the University of Houston for three semesters, then transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after being awarded a full scholarship.[16][37] In 1992, as a sophomore, Siddiqui received a Carroll L. Wilson Award for her research proposal "Islamization in Pakistan and its Effects on Women".[16][35][40] As a junior, she received a $1,200 City Days fellowship through MIT's program to help clean up Cambridge elementary school playgrounds.[16] While she initially had a triple major in biology, anthropology, and archeology at MIT, she graduated in 1995 with a B.S. in biology.[41][42]
Siddiqui studied cognitive neuroscience at Brandeis University.[9] In early 1999 while she was a graduate student, she taught General Biology Lab, a course required for undergraduate biology majors, pre-med, and pre-dental students.[12][46] She received her PhD in 2001 after completing her dissertation on learning through imitation;[4] "Separating the Components of Imitation".[35][47] Siddiqui's dissertation adviser was a Brandeis psychology professor who recalled that she wore a head scarf and thanked Allah when an experiment was successful.[9] He said her research concerned how people learn, and did not believe it could be connected to anything that would be useful to Al-Qaeda.[9] Siddiqui also co-authored a journal article on selective learning that was published in 2003.[48]
Undergraduate education
Siddiqui moved to Houston, Texas, on a student visa in 1990 joining her brother.[12][35][39] She attended the University of Houston for three semesters, then transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after being awarded a full scholarship.[16][37] In 1992, as a sophomore, Siddiqui received a Carroll L. Wilson Award for her research proposal "Islamization in Pakistan and its Effects on Women".[16][35][40] As a junior, she received a $1,200 City Days fellowship through MIT's program to help clean up Cambridge elementary school playgrounds.[16] While she initially had a triple major in biology, anthropology, and archeology at MIT, she graduated in 1995 with a B.S. in biology.[41][42]
Siddiqui studied cognitive neuroscience at Brandeis University.[9] In early 1999 while she was a graduate student, she taught General Biology Lab, a course required for undergraduate biology majors, pre-med, and pre-dental students.[12][46] She received her PhD in 2001 after completing her dissertation on learning through imitation;[4] "Separating the Components of Imitation".[35][47] Siddiqui's dissertation adviser was a Brandeis psychology professor who recalled that she wore a head scarf and thanked Allah when an experiment was successful.[9] He said her research concerned how people learn, and did not believe it could be connected to anything that would be useful to Al-Qaeda.[9] Siddiqui also co-authored a journal article on selective learning that was published in 2003.[48]
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