Iranian Arachnological Society
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The Iranian Arachnological Society (IAS) was founded in 2010 as an academic society for amateur and professional arachnologists and individuals interested in Arachnids (including spiders, scorpions, harvestmen, ticks, mites
and Solifugae
) in order to promote the arachnological studies in Iran
and facilitate the collaborations between Iranian and international arachnologists, researchers and institutions around the world.
MITES
MITES, or Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science, is a highly selective six-week summer program for rising high school seniors held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Its purpose is to expose students from minority, or otherwise disadvantaged backgrounds, to the fields of...
and Solifugae
Solifugae
Solifugae are an order of Arachnida, known as camel spiders, wind scorpions and sun spiders or solifuges, comprising more than 1,000 described species in about 153 genera...
) in order to promote the arachnological studies in Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
and facilitate the collaborations between Iranian and international arachnologists, researchers and institutions around the world.