The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation publicly announces that USMA Cadet Hamin Nasir, Class of 2013, has earned a 2012 Truman Scholarship. Nasir is one of 54 exceptional college students from 48 U.S. colleges and universities who have been selected as 2012 Truman Scholars. Nasir will have the opportunity to further his  education with a scholarship valued at approximately $30,000 for two years at any accredited university in the world.

Cadet Hamid Nasir, of Alaska, is a Comparative Politics and Arabic double major and plans to eventually earn a Master in Public Affairs (M.P.A.). Hamid served as the Chief of Staff for the Student Conference on United States Affairs, an annual four day public and foreign policy conference. Hamid speaks Urdu, Hindi, and Punjabi and aspires to be a South Asian Foreign Area Officer in the U.S. Army.