UC Santa Barbara Student and Cancer Survivor Mohammad Ameen Awarded $10,000
Northwestern Mutual Foundation Honors Student with Special Grant for Childhood Cancer Survivors
UCSB student Mohammad Ameen, far left, is now happily focused on his future after a childhood bout with cancer. | Credit: Courtesy
Acceptance to the University of California, Santa Barbara, is already a feat in and of itself, but doing so as a childhood cancer survivor seems unimaginable. This is what sets Mohammad Ameen — diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia when he was 2 years old and now a student at UCSB — apart.
This was normal to him. “For any other average kid, it would be unusual, but for me, that was the only thing [I knew] … as I grew up, I realized this was going to be part of my life.”
Through it all, Ameen just wanted to go to school, and as his hospital visits began to occur at larger intervals, he decided to jump right in.
