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STARKVILLE, Miss.—Eighty-nine students are being inducted this semester into Mississippi State’s chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.

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. The honor organization draws members from all disciplines within colleges and universities.

MSU’s chapter is being honored this year by the national organization at the highest level of PKP recognition with a “platinum designation” Circle of Excellence Award.

New PKP inductees include (by hometown):

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia—Emily Elizabeth Lyon, a junior political science major.

AMORY—Jackson Alden Pickering, a senior mechanical engineering major.

ATOKA, Tennessee—Joseph Christopher Debroeck, an industrial engineering master’s student.

BENTONIA—Matthew Thaddaeus Hines, a music education master’s graduate.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama—Benjamin Kennon Handley, a junior finance major.

BOGUE CHITTO—Brenton Andrew Earl Breland, a plant and soil sciences/horticulture master’s student.

BRANDON—Jackson Carter Berry, a junior mechanical engineering major; Anna Katherine Cooper, a junior animal and dairy science major; Michael Drew Crenshaw, a music education master’s graduate; and Lydia Grace Glover, a senior industrial engineering major.

BROOKHAVEN—Anna Lynn Hollis, an agricultural and extension education master’s student; and Caleb Scott McCreary, a junior biological engineering/biomedical engineering major.

CALHOUN CITY—Walker Williams Hardin, a junior kinesiology/neuromechanics major.

CAMDEN—Orlandria D. Beamon, an educational psychology/school psychology doctoral student and educational psychology/psychometry master’s student.

CARMI, Illinois—Peyton Renee Roedder, a junior elementary education/middle school major.

CHALFONT, Pennsylvania—Olivia Kate Cresswell, a junior animal and dairy science major.

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee—Cecelia Ann Turner, a junior fashion design and merchandising major.

CHERRY LOG, Georgia—Michele Ann Jones, an elementary education/middle school bachelor’s graduate.

CLARKSDALE—Mia Todd Scheider, an electrical and computer engineering master’s student.

CLEVELAND, Alabama—William Reid Graves, a public policy and administration master’s student.

CLINTON—Jayla Moretta Mondy, a senior biochemistry/pre-medicine major.

COLLIERVILLE, Tennessee—Lauren Gabrielle Brown, a senior chemical engineering major; Mia Brooke Chang Morris, a junior biochemistry/pre-medicine major; and Katrina Cheryl Wilczynski, a junior elementary education/middle school major.

COLUMBUS—Molly Jane Carpenter, an education/school administration major pursuing an educational specialist degree; Bethany McKenzie Jones, a kinesiology/disability studies master’s student; and Anna Leigh Minga, a junior kinesiology/neuromechanics major.

DURHAM, North Carolina—Victoria Lynn Page, a geoscience/applied meteorology master’s student.

EL DORADO, Arkansas—Timothy Michael Vodopivec, a business administration master’s student.

FLETCHER, North Carolina—John N. Fox, a finance bachelor’s graduate.

FLOWOOD—David Alexander Gibbs Jr., a junior biochemistry/pre-medicine major.

GERMANTOWN, Tennessee—Hayes Elizabeth Franklin, a senior kinesiology/clinical exercise physiology major.

GREENWOOD—Helen Olmsted Singleton, a junior psychology major.

GREENWOOD, South Carolina—Sarah McLeod Hobbs, a junior wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture, and animal and dairy science double-major.

HARVEST, Alabama—Katelyn Marie Crawford, a junior chemical engineering major.

HENRICO, Virginia—Conner T. Owens, a wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture major.

HERNANDO—Brendan T. Morrow, a junior biochemistry/pre-medicine major.

HOOVER, Alabama—Hubert Williams Couch, a junior biomedical engineering major.

HORN LAKE—James Andrew Powell, an interdisciplinary studies bachelor’s graduate.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama—Emma Elizabeth Nordeman, a junior elementary education/middle school major.

JOHNS CREEK, Georgia—Alexa Mackenzie Ward, a senior marketing, and fashion design and merchandising double-major.

KEMAH, Texas—Peyton Elise Anderson, a senior animal and dairy science, and food science, nutrition and health promotion double-major.

LACEY’S SPRING, Alabama—Benjamin L. Hatfield, an applied anthropology master’s student.

LENA—Melvajean Kenyatta Moore, an education/school administration student pursuing an educational specialist degree.

LOUISVILLE—Allison N. Shanabrough, a Master of Arts in Teaching–Secondary student.

MABEN—Cody West Boland, a senior biochemistry major.

MADISON, Alabama—Maxwell Jamal Perkins, a junior business information systems major.

MADISON—Chanukya Suresh Cherukuri, a junior biological engineering/biomedical engineering major.

MADISONVILLE, Louisiana—Alyssa Jordan Cohn, a junior finance major.

MANDEVILLE, Louisiana—Cannon Ray Kent, an agriculture master’s student.

MARIETTA, Georgia—Haley Marie Palmer, a junior communication/public relations major.

MARIETTA—Ken R. Waddell, a plant and soil sciences/agronomy master’s student.

MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Maryland—Leslie Anne Azwell, a junior wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture major.

MERIDIAN—David Grant Thaggard, a junior chemical engineering major; and Anita Z. Wansley, an educational leadership/school administration master’s student.

METAIRIE—Virginia Louise Theriot, a junior kinesiology/clinical exercise physiology major.

MOBILE, Alabama—Ann Mason Hunter, an accounting master’s student; and Joseph Anthony Westerfield, a junior electrical engineering major.

MONTGOMERY, Alabama—Katherine Ellis Albrecht, a junior history major.

MOSCOW, Idaho—Anna Ruth Bales, a junior biochemistry/pre-medicine major.

MURFREESBORO, Tennessee—Justin Timothy Smith, a junior mechanical engineering major.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana—Matthew James Frischhertz, a junior finance major.

NORTHPORT, Alabama—Zoie Katherine Comer, a senior wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture major.

OCEAN SPRINGS—Katherine Elizabeth Brune, a junior human development and family science major; and Ethan Michael Kilpatrick, a junior computer engineering major.

OXFORD—William David Fiser II, a junior petroleum engineering major.

PENSACOLA, Florida—Micah Jehiel Maurice Roland, a music education master’s graduate.

PHILADELPHIA—Tyler James Holland, a junior biochemistry/pre-medicine and chemistry double-major.

PONTOTOC—Nanita Jane Chamblee, an agricultural and extension education master’s student.

PORT GIBSON—William Douglas Lum, a senior mechanical engineering major.

PURVIS—Caitlin E. Wall, a junior food science, nutrition and health promotion major.

QUINTON, Alabama—Chelsea M. Aaron, a geoscience/broadcast meteorology master’s student.

SAVANNAH, Georgia—John Kenneth Griffin, a junior aerospace engineering/astronautics major.

SCOTTSBORO, Alabama—Davis Lee Bostrom, a junior animal and dairy science major.

SLIDELL, Louisiana—Nathan Manh-Truong Ngo, a junior biomedical engineering major.

SOUTHAVEN—Abigail Lenae Ransom, a junior psychology and microbiology double-major; and Henry Koll Zeringue, a junior forestry/urban forestry major.

STARKVILLE—Joshua David Cohen, a cyber security and operations master’s student; Karl Michael Grebner, a junior mechanical engineering major; Emily O’Neal Green, a public policy and administration doctoral student; Yadunandan Paudel, an electrical and computer engineering doctoral student; Somayeh Bakhtiari Ramezani, a computer science doctoral student; and Nagadarshan Rao Bhounsly Janardhan Rao, an aerospace engineering master’s graduate.

SUGAR LAND, Texas—Hope Catherine Yeager, a junior aerospace engineering/astronautics major.

TALLAHASSEE, Florida—Caroline Elizabeth Ferguson, a senior biological sciences/pre-medicine major.

VESTAVIA HILLS, Alabama—Grey Walker Garris, an educational leadership master’s

student; Mckinley Esther Owens, a senior wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture major.

VICKSBURG—Benjamin Carlisle Koestler, a workforce education leadership master’s graduate.

WEST MONROE, Louisiana—James Malcolm Aulds, a junior biomedical engineering major.

Founded in 1897, Phi Kappa Phi awards nearly $1 million each year to outstanding students and members through graduate fellowships, study abroad grants, member and chapter awards, and grants for local, national and international literacy initiatives.

For more information, visit www.phikappaphi.org; for the MSU’s Phi Kappa Phi chapter, see www.pkp.org.msstate.edu.

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