Alumna Jasmine Al Rasheed won a German Academic Exchange Service graduate fellowship

Jasmine Al Rasheed (A&S ’23) has won a graduate fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The award will fund her master’s degree in global health from a joint program between two German schools: Humboldt University of Berlin and Charité, the Berlin University of Medicine.

The Irwin, Pennsylvania, native received her Bachelor of Philosophy in international and area studies from Pitt’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and David C. Frederick Honors College. She was among the University’s 10 Fulbright recipients for the 2023-24 school year, which she spent conducting public health research in Morrocco. Also while at Pitt, Al Rasheed was vice president of the Multiracial Student Association and social chair of the Muslim Student Association.

Every year, DAAD supports more than 100,000 German and international students and researchers around the globe, making it the world‘s largest funding organization of its kind. The service awards scholarships for international students, doctoral candidates and postdocs to study and research at universities and non-university research institutes alike in Germany.