PKP Honor Society Inductees
April 29, 2016
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UT Tyler Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Chapter Inductees Announced
April 29, 2016
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Fifty-six students at The University of Texas at Tyler were inducted into the university's Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society chapter for the 2016-17 year.
Founded in 1897 at the University of Maine, Phi Kappa Phi is the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. The society has chapters on more than 300 select colleges and universities in North America and the Philippines.
Phi Kappa Phi inducts annually about 32,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni. 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.
UT Tyler student inductees are listed by hometown.
ANNA – Shane Krotz.
ARP – Jessie Shoemaker.
ATLANTA – Robert Barnwell.
AUSTIN – Kimberly Romberg.
BEN WHEELER – Rashana Garner.
BURLESON – Taylor Mares.
CORSICANA – Danielle Wallace.
FORT WORTH – Bryn Brown and David Minton.
FRISCO – Shuang Chen
GAINESVILLE – Rachel Bowles.
GARLAND – Cathy Patton.
GREENVILLE – Amber Moore.
HEARTLAND – Michelle Marshall.
HOUSTON – Barron Lataquin.
IRVING – Victoria Brown and Kelsey Burlingame.
JUSTIN – Odette Mendez.
KAUFMAN – Jasmine Bonner.
LINDALE – Ashley Broadbent and Josiah Shipley.
LONGVIEW – Isaac Burnett.
MINEOLA – Cecilia Sanchez.
PLANO – Deborah Grambling.
POWDERLY –Ashley Norwood.
RICHMOND – Michele Willis.
ROANOKE – Summer Hughes.
RUSK – Anthony Garner.
SAGINAW – Liliana Diaz.
SAN ANTONIO – Christy Zamarron.
SPRING – Radha Nabar.
TYLER – Oluwafemi Balogun, Oluwatomiwa Bami-Ogunbiyi, Joseph Byrum, Christopher Dawson, Aaron Deatherage, Megan Frierson, Kenneth Gomez, Julie Henry, Jamie Huckaby, Valerie Johnson, Elnora King, Brooke Meyer, Ben Mokhtari, Adam Montgomery, Caleb Nehls, Elizabeth Perdomo, Sridevi Pitta and Troy Thomason.
VAN – Destyn Crow and Alia Pappas.
KENTUCKY – Bethanie Gamble.
MAINE – Suzanne Parkman.
MICHIGAN – Jacqueline Prokop.
OHIO – Derek Blain.
VIRGINIA – Tara Conte.
One of the 14 campuses of the UT System, UT Tyler features excellence in teaching, research, artistic performance and community service. More than 80 undergraduate and graduate degrees are available at UT Tyler, which has an enrollment of more than 8,500 high-ability students. UT Tyler offers courses at its campuses in Tyler, Longview and Palestine as well as a location in Houston.