Fifty-four Students Elected to Phi Beta Kappa
The Middlebury chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the country’s oldest honor society for the liberal arts and sciences, elected 54 students to its membership on May 25 in a ceremony at McCullough Student Center. The induction was one of several celebratory events held for seniors during Commencement weekend.
Two students, Nicholas Dahlen and Aine Powers, received the Phi Beta Kappa prize, which is presented to graduating seniors “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.”
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 eight percent is elected in May, on the basis of work completed over eight semesters.
The members elected in May 2024 are:
Aidan Breen Amster
Robin Sage Andresen
Andrew M. Atallah
Caitlin Beverley Baxter
Jeffrey Harrison Bolnick
Isabella Barbara Burke
Ashley Iona Mae Chimelis
Katherine Renee DeFrancesco
Emily Elizabeth Downer
Eli Dylan Drachman
Michael Mackenzie Freeman
Samara Gordon Wexler
Molly Erin Grazioso
Claire Ingrid Greenburger
Sarah Elizabeth Guest
Ai Hattori
Rowan Elizabeth Heffelfinger
Reika Sophia Herman
Lauren Calyssa Ho
Faith M. Isham
Steven Miguel Jin Xuan
Catherine Laura Kish
Katherine Noel Kraczkowsky
Emily Grace Kuperstein
Jonah Jewett Landsman
Anne Carlson Lee
Yifei Luo
Charlotte B. Luster
Alana Ryhn Lutz
Marina Cavagnero Lyon
Katie G. Macalintal
Peyton Elizabeth Mader
Anna Kathryn Metzler
Essa S. Moodie
Kristen Beth Morgenstern
Tessa Katriina Mott
Olivia Grace Mueller
Aine Essie Hazen Powers
Zhizhong Pu
Samantha Gail Remis
Gabriella Joyce Roelofs
Joshua Kittredge Rosenstein
Kayla Ariel Schwartz
Lindsey Frances Schweitzer
Margaret Lee Shelburne
Liam Wyatt Smith
Aaron V. Tobias
Elizabeth Toll
John Torpey
S. Grady Welsh
Emily Claire Wight
Wen Xu
Yide Xu
Tobias E. Ziemke
Fourteen seniors were elected to Phi Beta Kappa in October 2023 after three years at Middlebury.