April 19, 2015
College Station, TX – The Texas A&M chapter of Phi Kappa Phi inducted 328 new members. Students were selected from the top 7.5% of junior undergraduate students, the top 10% of senior undergraduate students and top 10% graduate and professional students in each college. Austin Hahn, 2015 Outstanding Junior for the Dwight Look College of Engineering was honored as University Outstanding Junior. Hahn will receive a $1000 scholarship and plaque commemorating his selection. Ten additional students were honored as Outstanding Junior for their respective colleges, and were each presented with plaques and $500 scholarship.
The 2015 PKP Outstanding Juniors are Kallie Fuchs, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences; Taylor Hermann, College of Architecture; Julia Deleeuw, Mays Business School; Emma Epps, College of Education and Human Development; Collin Kohlmeyer, College of Geosciences; Kaitlyn Kellermeyer, College of Liberal Arts; Eleni Mijalis, College of Science; Andy Habib, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; Amanda Sterne, Texas A&M University at Galveston; and Salwan Abou Salem, Texas A&M University at Qatar. For more information about the 2015 Outstanding Juniors, please see: 2015 Outstanding Juniors Announced.
In addition to the junior, senior and graduate student inductees, Dr. S. Kent Anderson, executive associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning was initiated based on his commitment to the mission of Phi Kappa Phi “to promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and to engage the community of scholars in service to others.”
The ceremony provided an opportunity to recognize the Texas A&M nominee for the Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship. This national competition features five $15,000 scholarships and fifty-one $5,000 scholarships for students entering the first year of graduate or professional study. Senior environmental geosciences major Amélie Berger, the 2014 TAMU Outstanding Junior, received the chapter nomination for the national competition and a scholarship from the local chapter.
Dr. Steven Quiring, outgoing president, offered the following reflection on the ceremony: “The motto of Phi Kappa Phi is ‘Let the love of learning rule humanity.’ I am pleased to report that the love of learning is alive and well at Texas A&M University. This year we recognized an outstanding group of students who are not only passionate about learning, but who are also putting what they learn into practice through their service and leadership activities on the campus and around the world. It is a privilege to acknowledge the accomplishments of these students.”
More About The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
Founded in 1897 and headquartered in Baton Rouge, La., The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines and annually inducts approximately 32,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni. The Society has chapters on more than 300 select colleges and universities in North America and the Philippines. Membership is by invitation only to the top 10 percent of seniors and graduate students and 7.5 percent of juniors. Faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction also qualify.
Since its founding, more than 1 million members have been initiated. Some of the organization’s more notable members include former Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, NASA astronaut Wendy Lawrence, author Ernest Gaines and broadcast journalist Deborah Norville. Nearly $1 million is awarded each biennium to qualifying students and members through graduate fellowships, undergraduate study abroad scholarships, member and chapter awards and grants for local and national literacy initiatives. The Society’s mission is “To recognize and promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and to engage the community of scholars in service to others.”
For more information on The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, please call 800/804-9880 or visit http://www.PhiKappaPhi.org.
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Phi Kappa Phi at Texas A&M University 
Reblogged this on Honors and Undergraduate Research and commented:
Congratulations to Honors Students Julia Deleeuw and Eleni Mijalis, as well as to all of the Outstanding Juniors and new Phi Kappa Phi inductees!