Whether she was leading a group of Boilermaker women to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, empowering the University Blood Initiative (UBI) to collect more than 1,000 units of blood, serving as president for the national championship equestrian team or helping students as a Resident Education Assistant, Yasmin Pirbhai\u2019s giant leap in the Purdue University College of Health and Human Sciences (HHS) has reverberated throughout the university and beyond.<\/p>\n
On May 16, Pirbhai will cross the stage in Elliott Hall of Music with highest distinction and begin her next chapter at the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine in her hometown of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Pirbhai will earn honors from both the John Martinson Honors College as well as the Nutrition Science Honors Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":47667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2485,263,378,2484,2486,2482,1964,642,240,2481,2487,2483,2480],"class_list":["post-47665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutrition-science","tag-block-party-advisory-board","tag-college-of-health-and-human-sciences","tag-department-of-nutrition-science","tag-equestrian-team","tag-hhs-student-ambassador","tag-john-burgess","tag-john-martinson-honors-college","tag-nutrition-science-honors-program","tag-purdue-university","tag-university-blood-initiative","tag-university-residences","tag-versiti","tag-yasmin-pirbhai"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n