Salman Mohammed of JHU is one of 20 named to Academic First Team

‘USA Today’ Honors Top Students

“I very much appreciate being recognized by USA Today; it’s quite humbling,” said Mohammed, winner of the university’s Chester Wickwire Award for Diversity in 2006, the Johns Hopkins Exemplary Leadership Award in 2006-2007 and a 2009 Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Community Service. “The things I have done are a product of how I was raised and what I believe,” he said. “As a child I looked up to His Highness the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims. The Aga Khan’s vision has led to the Aga Khan Development Network, a group of institutions working to improve the lives and conditions of people in the developing world. Thus, as an Ismaili Muslim, I am passionate about serving my local communities in urban Baltimore and also the larger world community.“

Salman Mohammed of JHU is one of 20 named to Academic First Team

By Lisa De Nike, Homewood

Chat with Salman Mohammed for a few moments and it quickly becomes clear that the 22-year-old senior has little interest in talking about himself. Instead, the psychology major who was born in Pakistan but calls Texas “home” would far rather discuss, among other things, strategies for eliminating the barriers that poor people in the United States and abroad face in accessing quality health care.

“Poverty is all about a lack of access to things, from education and health care to other resources,” said Mohammed, who plans to become a doctor. “This is a subject that I am passionate about. This is what motivates me.”

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