An Iranian cancer research scientist, Fariba Moeinpour, was awarded over $3.8 million by a federal jury on Tuesday after filing a discrimination lawsuit against the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Moeinpour, who worked at UAB's medical school from 2011 until her termination in 2020, claimed she endured nine years of racial harassment from a colleague, Mary Jo Cagle, due to her Iranian heritage.
The jury ruled in favor of Moeinpour, ordering UAB to pay $3 million in damages, while Cagle, a former data analyst at the university, was ordered to pay $825,000 in compensatory and punitive damages.
