Featuring Phi Kappa Phi Award Recipients for: • Fellowships • • Literacy Grants • A Publication of • • The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi Study Abroad Grants • Promotion of Excellence Grants • 2006 Awards Issue A local market in the Limari Valley of Chile where locals sell vegetables and other crops to earn a living. – Rebecca E. James, former Study Abroad Grant recipient Michigan State University Panama Study Abroad group on Pipeline Trail in Gamboa, Panama. – Joshua Mastenbrook, former Study Abroad Grant recipient The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi was founded Board of Directors in 1897 and became a national organization through the efforts of the presidents of three state universities. Paul J. Ferlazzo, PhD Its primary objective has been from the first the rec- National President ognition and encouragement of superior scholarship Northern Arizona University in all fields of study. 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Box 16000 — LSU Baton Rouge, LA 70893 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi Box 16000 Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70893 2006 Awards Issue PHI KAPPA PHI FORUM, Volume 86, Number 2 Fellowships 3 Every year, The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi awards sixty Fellowships of $5,000 each and forty Awards of Excellence of $2,000 each to members entering their first year of graduate or professional study. Each Phi Kappa Phi chapter may select one candidate from among its local applicants to compete for the Society- wide awards. Literacy Grants 10 The Literacy Grants program was initiated in 2003 to mobilize members and resources of Phi Kappa Phi and the higher education community to champion literacy initiatives. Grants of up to $2,500 are available to Phi Kappa Phi chapters and individual members to fund ongoing literacy projects or to create new ones. The Society’s commitment to the cause of literacy grows out of and is consistent with its mission, which was expand- ed to include “to engage the community of scholars in service to others.” This is Libertadores Pass crossing from Argentina back to Chile, one of the two paved roads over the Andes Mountains. – Rebecca E. James Study Abroad Grants 13 Phi Kappa Phi Study Abroad Grants are designed to help support undergraduates who seek knowledge and experience in their academic fields by studying abroad. Thirty-eight $1,000 grants are awarded each year. Promotion of Excellence 15 Grants The Phi Kappa Phi Promotion of Excellence Grants Program, inaugurated by the Board of Directors and the Triennial Convention in 1998, is designed to pro- vide support to Phi Kappa Phi members and chapters as they design and implement programs and activities that These cloggers were performing at the Highland advance excellence in higher education. Games in Scotland, an event that was not on our itiner- ary, but that we happened upon while driving through the mountains. – Katherine Spencer All photographs for this issue have been generously supplied by previous Study Abroad Grant recipients. 2006 Named Fellowship Recipients Walter and Adelheid Hohenstein Fellows Monty Aghazadeh Slater Fellow Northeastern Region: Nicklaus Laverty, Louisiana State University This year’s Slater Fellow is Monty who is majoring in political science and Aghazadeh, who is majoring in biology minoring in English at the University of and minoring in French at Louisiana Maine, is the Hohenstein Fellow for the State University. He plans to attend Northeastern Region. He plans to pursue a medical school, and he has already PhD in Political Science. been accepted to two of his top three choices — Vanderbilt and Emory. Southeastern Region: Thomas Spain, who is majoring in physics, minoring in math- Tondra De Yoerger Presidential Fellow ematics at the University of Alabama, University of Nevada Tondra De, who is a candidate for the Huntsville, is the Hohenstein Fellow for -Las Vegas B.S.E in electrical engineering and the the Southeastern Region. He plans to B.S. in mathematics at the University attend medical school; he has already of Nevada, Las Vegas, is this year’s been accepted to the medical schools at Yoerger Fellow. She plans to pursue a Vanderbilt and the University of Alabama. PhD in Science Education. North Central Region: Rishi Wadhera, who Ruth E. Brasher Fellow is majoring in biology and minoring in Philip Scherer, a candidate for a B.S. business at the University of Wisconsin, Philip Scherer in microbiology at Brigham Young Madison, is this year’s Hohenstein Fellow Brigham Young University University, is this year’s Brasher Fellow. for the North Central Region. He plans to attend medical school. South Central Region: Marc Walker, a can- Kathleen Greey Fellow didate for a B.S. in biology and a B.A. in This year’s Greey Fellow is Paul Julian, philosophy at the University of Mississippi, a philosophy major at the University is the Hohenstein Fellow for the South of Tennessee, Knoxville. He plans to Central Region. He plans for a career in pursue a PhD in Philosophy. medicine, and he has already been accept- Paul Julian ed to the medical schools at Vanderbilt and University of Tennessee- the University of Mississippi. Knoxville Marjorie Schoch Fellow This year’s Schoch Fellow is Chi Viet, a biological sciences major at the Western Region: Christina To, who is major- University of California, Davis. She ing in physics and minoring in chemistry plans a career in dentistry, and she has and in sociology at the University of already been accepted to the dentistry Southern California, is the Hohenstein schools at University of California, San Fellow for the Western Region.