Phi Kappa Phi
Phi Kappa Phi honorary society inducts new members
2:09 p.m., June 5, 2013--Sixty-seven University of Delaware undergraduate students, two graduate students and nine faculty members were inducted into Phi Kappa Phi at a ceremony on May 3 at the Trabant University Center. The names of the inductees are available online.
Founded in 1897, Phi Kappa Phi is the oldest and largest honorary society in the nation. Its mission is to recognize and encourage superior scholarship in all academic disciplines. The UD chapter was founded in 1905.
Honors Stories
National Medal of Science
Warren Award
The 2013-14 Phi Kappa Phi chapter president is Daniel B. Stevens, professor in the Department of Music. Other 2013-14 chapter officers are: vice-president/president-elect, Suzanne L. Burton, professor, Department of Music; student vice-president, Jessica M. Cordova, senior, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures; secretary, Susan T. Serra, Office of Service Learning; treasurer, U. Carl Toensmeyer, professor, Department of Food and Resource Economics; public relations, Susan Brynteson, vice provost and May Morris University Librarian; and past president, Cristina R. Bacuta, assistant professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences.
Each year the chapter recognizes student award winners.
The University chapter awarded the $500 prize in the Undergraduate Research Essay Competition to Natalie Antoinette Stevenson, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, for her essay “The Avian Herpesvirus mdv1-miR-M4 microRNA Is an miR-155 Analog and Increases Susceptibility of Young Chicks to Salmonella Enteritidis.” Robin W. Morgan, professor of animal and food sciences, served as her adviser.
The University chapter nominee for the National Fellowship for Graduate Study Competition was Elizabeth Joan Watson, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Roberta M. Golinkoff, H. Rodney Sharp Professor in the School of Education, served as her adviser.