“I wanted to say that Muslims aren’t terrorists,” he says. “It” was spearheading two major initiatives to increase voting participation by Furman students, including being the lead plaintiff in a successful lawsuit against Greenville County that challenged handling of voter registration for college students. “And from there on I came back to Furman and said ‘let’s do it.’” built me up was you can’t do anything without action,” he says. Sulaiman, a Muslim, heard and saw things he found offensive and at one time doubted his direction until the Washington, D.C., Internship Experience study away program charted a new course. There were times, however, the son of Pakistani immigrants was acutely aware of one thing that made him different-especially after the burst of rhetoric swirling around his religion leading up to the 2016 election. Sadi Ibrahim described the gesture as “timely against the backdrop of the current protracted industrial strike by the public universities across Nigeria, proving that lecturers in public universities are internationally competitive, contrary to the opinions in some quarters.A bright achiever following in the footsteps of sister Ayesha ’03 and brother Amer ’06 as the third member of the family to attend their hometown school, Sulaiman Ahmad couldn’t be a more typical Furman student in most ways. Responding to the multi million naira grant, Dr.
The University Don was a Wellcome Trust fellow, between 2017-2019 (the first Nigerian to receive such award), from which he created the most comprehensive, functioning molecular biology laboratory in a public university in northern Nigeria. The grant came on the heels of statistics that put Nigeria alone has the highest burden of malaria in the world, accounting for 27% of all global cases, and 31% of all deaths due to malaria. The Research research grant would further aims to understand how malaria-transmitting mosquitoes adapt to the rising temperatures due to global warming (climate change) the genetic mechanisms they use for such adaptations, and how the mechanisms can be targeted for the control of the mosquitoes, reducing the burden of malaria in the world.
INDEPENDENT learnt that the research grant specically targets malaria-transmitting mosquitoes, improving the way they are controlled.
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