MSU’S Phi Kappa Phi chapter inducts students

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):

Amory—jackson Alden Pickering, a senior mechanical engineering major.

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

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.

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

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

FLOWOOD—DAVID Alexander Gibbs Jr., a junior biochemistry/premedicine major.

GREENWOOD—HELEN

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Singleton, a junior psychology major.

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

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

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

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—CHANUKYA Suresh Cherukuri, a junior biological engineering/biomedical engineering 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.