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HONORS<br />
COLLEGE<br />
The Honors College provides<br />
students with engaging<br />
opportunities to stimulate thinking<br />
and intellectual curiosity and to<br />
give back to our communities.<br />
Honors students and faculty work<br />
together throughout the University’s<br />
colleges, establishing a center of<br />
innovation and collaboration. The<br />
Honors College is a magnet for<br />
differently talented and motivated<br />
campus leaders, and constitutes a<br />
distinct and valuable asset to the<br />
University’s culture and community.<br />
SouthAlabama.edu/Honors<br />
MARIAM OMAR<br />
is a junior chemical engineering<br />
major on the pre-medicine track<br />
and a proud member of the USA<br />
Honors College. Although she<br />
was born and raised in Mobile,<br />
Alabama, her family is originally<br />
from Palestine. While in high school<br />
Mariam decided that she wanted<br />
to pursue medicine, but not through<br />
the traditional route. Following<br />
the footsteps of her older brother<br />
Yousef, Mariam chose to major in<br />
chemical engineering rather than<br />
the typical pre-health majors such<br />
as biology or biomedical sciences.<br />
A core aspect of Honors is<br />
research, a discipline that<br />
Mariam knows well. Through the<br />
Summer Undergraduate Research<br />
Fellowship, she worked 10 hours<br />
a day in a lab at the Mitchell<br />
Cancer Institute and is now<br />
researching sustainable energy<br />
in the Department of Chemical<br />
and Biomolecular Engineering.<br />
During her time at South, Mariam<br />
has been a leader in campus<br />
organizations, helping to raise<br />
money for UNICEF’s Lebanon relief<br />
fund and Camp SMILE.<br />
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