Honour for Pakistani student
Claes Nobel, senior member of the family that established the Nobel Prizes and founder of The National Society of High School Scholars, has awarded a $5,000 Claes Nobel Academic Scholarship to Aga Khan University Medical College student Zohaib Ashraf. Ashraf was selected for the award from among 11,000 applicants for excellence in academics, leadership, and community service and is invited to the NSHSS recognition ceremony in Washington, D.C, on May 30 in the US Senate Dirksen Building. Mr Nobel stated, “I am deeply honored to recognize Zohaib as one of our most outstanding students.” The Nobel family established the Nobel Prizes in 1901 in order to note outstanding contribution in the fields of peace, literature, medicine, chemistry, and physics.