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Tanin Haidary M \u201918, Ph.D. \u201921<\/b><\/p>\n
Pakistan to Afghanistan to Clemson<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div> By\u00a0Paul Hyde \u201916<\/b> In his doctoral address, Haidary reflected on his personal journey \u2014 and honored his family<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div> When he was asked to present<\/span> the first-ever doctoral address at Clemson University, Tanin Haidary didn\u2019t search very long for his topic.<\/span><\/p>\n He\u2019d pay tribute to his parents who, he says, \u201csacrificed their careers and everything for me and my siblings.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Haidary, who was receiving his Ph.D. in\u00a0 <\/span>planning, design and the built environment, faced an audience of 84 graduating doctoral students and hundreds of family members in early May at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena.<\/span><\/p>\n Striving to control what he calls his \u201cstage phobia,\u201d Haidary spoke in an emotion-laden voice about growing up as a refugee in Pakistan and about a family with a fierce devotion to education. Haidary was born in Afghanistan, but his family moved to Pakistan when the Afghan Civil War erupted.<\/p>\n His father had been a base commander in the military in Afghanistan, but in Pakistan, the only job he could find was fixing TVs. His mother, a doctor, was allowed to provide health care in Pakistan only to other refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cNew shoes and a good dinner once a year at the end of Ramadan were the only luxuries my siblings and I would get,\u201d Haidary says. \u201cFor my parents, their only luxuries were the smiles on our faces.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Despite their struggles, Haidary\u2019s parents kept their eyes on the prize: the best possible education for their children.<\/span><\/p>\n When Haidary was 10 years old, his family was able to return to Afghanistan, where Haidary eventually secured a spot at the highly competitive Kabul University, graduating with a bachelor\u2019s degree in civil engineering in 2012. For four years, Haidary worked in Afghanistan with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, helping to build military bases.<\/span><\/p>\n In 2016, however, came the opportunity of a lifetime: Haidary earned a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to further his studies in the United States. He headed straight for Clemson University and its highly ranked construction science and management program.<\/span><\/p>\n Two years later, Haidary graduated with a master\u2019s degree from the Nieri Family Department of Construction Science and Management and was immediately accepted into the planning, design and the built environment Ph.D. program in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMy Ph.D. adviser was Dr. Dennis Bausman, who has extensive industrial experience, so he teaches based on that experience,\u201d Haidary says. \u201cHe\u2019s amazing. I could not have asked for a better mentor, philosopher and guide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n A recent graduate of that doctoral program, Haidary is now working as a project engineer with DPR Construction on the new multimillion-dollar Greenville County Administration Building near downtown Greenville. He\u2019ll work on that project for two years before a new assignment that will likely take him to San Francisco.<\/span><\/p>\n During his doctoral address, Haidary\u2019s parents and three younger siblings were listening in by livestream.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThey called me after the speech,\u201d Haidary says. \u201cThey were all crying.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>
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