Phi Beta Kappa Elects 54 Students
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – The Middlebury chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the country’s oldest honor society for the liberal arts, founded in 1776, has elected 54 students to its membership. The Phi Beta Kappa prize, given to the graduating senior(s) “whose scholarly or artistic accomplishment and breadth, and contribution to the intellectual life of the community, best exemplify the society’s regard for intellectual excellence,” was awarded this year to Mykhailo Poklad.
Each year the Middlebury chapter elects up to 10 percent of the senior class to Phi Beta Kappa membership. Two percent of the class is elected in August, on the basis of six semesters’ work, and up to an additional 8 percent is elected in May, on the basis of work completed over eight semesters.
One of the traditional symbols most often identified with Phi Beta Kappa is the key, which the society developed in its early days. Middlebury owns one of the oldest Phi Beta Kappa keys still in existence—that of Middlebury’s first president, Jeremiah Atwater.
The newly elected 2021-2022 members include:
Kaja Aagaard
Victoria Seema Albert
Rebecca Caitlin Amen
Christina Margret Badalamenti
Eloise Berdahl-Baldwin
Elijah Benjamin Biletch
Hugo Böcker
Tyler J Capello
Sophie Chalfin-Jacobs
Katherine Grace Concannon
Molly Elizabeth French Conover
Elizabeth Braxton Dameron
Ideal Dowling
India Young Drummond
Lucy Sims Emptage
Jack Elliot English
Vincent Sylvain Falardeau
Maya Belle Fray-Witzer
Kathlyn Faye Gehl
Nathaniel Scott Gehrke
Rhys G Glennon
Jay Vanderbilt Hamel
Catherine Han
Grace Hamilton Hering
Jaden Veronica Hill
Rasika Ragini Iyer
Priya Kaur
Riley Elizabeth Kinum
Elsa K. Korpi
Yumeng Liu
Mariia Makutonina
G. Samuel Marshall
Nicholas R Matthews
Wynn Elizabeth McClenahan
Catherine Hayden McLaughlin
Eva Morgan
Liam Dennis O’Brien
Kendal Anne Pittman
Jennifer Leah Pushner
Cynthia Da-Silva Ramos
Olivia Rieur
Maia June Sauer
Ethan Lennard Saxenian
Corey Jonathan Scheinfeld
Yuka Tatsumi
Gwendolyn Guion Taylor
Emma Boland White
Sergiu Ivy Ilinka Valentine White
Matthew J. Wilson
Clara Masland Wolcott
Ruoheng Wu
Ege Berent Yuzbas
Jiujiu Zhou
Robert Zhu
Twelve students were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in October 2021.