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KU chapter of Phi Kappa Phi honor society recognizes new members Nov. 28

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LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas chapter of Phi Kappa Phi honor society recently initiated 154 new student members.

Stuart R. Bell, dean of the School of Engineering, was the keynote speaker at the Nov. 28 ceremony at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union and was a faculty initiate.

Phi Kappa Phi was founded in 1897 at the University of Maine in Orono and is the nation’s oldest and largest all-discipline academic honor society with chapters at about 300 colleges and universities in the United States, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Established in 1975, the KU chapter includes the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and all of the schools of the university.

At KU, only the top 10 percent of seniors, top 7.5 percent of second-semester juniors with more than 72 credit hours and top 10 percent of graduate students are asked to join. Phi Kappa Phi’s primary objectives are to promote the pursuit of excellence in all fields of higher education and to recognize outstanding achievement by students, faculty and others by election to membership and through various awards for distinguished achievement.

Marlesa Roney, vice provost for Student Success, is president of the KU chapter. Other officers are Angela Lumpkin, professor of health, sport and exercise science, vice president; Adolfo Matamoros, associate professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering, secretary; Jim Miller, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, treasurer; David Darwin, Deane E. Ackers Distinguished Professor of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, scholarship and awards chair; Jill Hummels, public relations director for the School of Engineering, public relations officer; and Reta Solwa, senior administrative assistant in the civil, environmental and architectural engineering department, administrator.

The new student members are listed below by home county, state or country.

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