“I’ve never cried in an interview before, but I was so moved by the conversation and personal connection,” said UNCG doctoral student Mohammed Jibriel. “I knew UNCG was the right place for me.”
Little did he know how right it would turn out to be.
Born and raised in Saudi Arabia and a Sudanese citizen, Mohammed Jibriel is an international student in the School of Health & Human Sciences with a lot of frequent flyer miles. Prior to coming the United States, he attended medical school in a town outside Moscow. The cold weather in Russia was certainly different from Saudi Arabia. After two years, he moved to North Carolina, attending Queens University in Charlotte where he received a B.S. degree in molecular biology, followed by a M.S. degree in biohazardous threat agents and emerging infectious diseases from Georgetown University.