Phi Beta Kappa at UVM

Tonight the Alpha of Vermont welcomed 11 new members-in-course and presented the Bogorad Award. We are delighted to recognize these outstanding students and to have them with us as we celebrate 175 years of the Alpha of Vermont Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.

Our new members are:
Elizabeth Chadwick
Eleanor Churchill
Finley Clark
Samantha Garbus
Anne Laurie Gilland
Kaitlin Kiley
Lauren Leroux
Jackie McGrath
Hayley Rosen
Nina Spencer
Genevieve Wakeman

The Bogorad Award, which recognizes the junior with the most outstanding academic record in the liberal arts through the sophomore year, was awarded to Justine Goldblatt and Emilia Winquist.

The Alpha of Vermont is pleased to have inducted several members of the Class of 2022:

Ethan Abell, Lydia Ambaye, Hunter Amory, Sean Anderson, Paige Bissaillon, Sara Bostock, Grace Bugler, Hannah Buscher, Lindsey Colwell, Katie Corkum, Maddy Degelsmith, Billy Dixon III, Emily Duggan, Eleanor Duva, Lauren Eisel, Diana Fennimore, Bailey Gengel, Tessa Georgeson, Emma Hoechner, Maddie Hutchinson, Mary Kennedy, Olivia Kern, Stephanie Kramer, Jane Krohn, Sam Leahy, Sara Leonard, Mary Lynch, Ellery Mahlum, Maddie Mathew, Eva Mazura, Sierra Miller, Raven Murray, Christopher Nagorniak, Riona O’Donnell, Emily Pallas, Megan Petrine, Mia Pienkowski,Celeste Piette, Lauren Polk, Daisy Powers, Emily Press, Megan Richardson, Paige Roussell, Meilena Sanchez, Catie Scaduto, Izzy Schmitt, Anna Sherman, Stella Shiffman, Isa Siewert, Samantha Smoger, Michael Tomas III, Jon Tremblay, Cassady Turnbach, and Bella Weston.

Congratulations to these fabulous, accomplished students!

The officers and members of the Alpha of Vermont were delighted to hold an in-person ceremony on December 9, 2021 to induct new students to our chapter. Our new members include:

Maddie Burke, Anitra Conover, Hannah Demane, Rachel Fickes, Gretchen Gilbert, Isaac Goetzke, Reese Green, Holly Kuhn, Moira Mahoney, Beth McCormick, Veronika Potter, Zoe Schemm, and Katherine Wynn.

The Bogorad Award was presented to Ellie Churchill and Emma Cripps.

Congratulations to all our new members! It was such a pleasure to see the chapter book back in use!

For students in the Class of 2020 or the Class of 2021 who have not yet been able to sign the chapter book, you may do so on Saturday, August 14 between 10 am to 2 pm on the back porch of Wheeler House, located 133 S. Prospect Street; it’s the History Department. The stairs to the porch are on the Main Street side of the building. Short-term parking while you sign is available in the Wheeler House parking lot.

In the event of rain or extreme heat, the signing will be in the basement of Wheeler House, which is accessible via a door on the back side of the building and accessed from the College Street side.

Please bring an ID with you.

You are welcome to just drop by in that window without RSVP’ing, but it would be nice if you could send me an email in advance to let me know if you’re planning to come. Or if you change your mind about coming—I would prefer not to be waiting for you if your plans have changed.

I can be reached at nphelps@uvm.edu. If you can’t come on August 14 but would like to arrange an alternative time to sign, please email me. Options exist for on- and off-campus appointments.

All the best,
Prof. Phelps
Register, Alpha of Vermont Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa

Our virtual ceremony for the 2020-21 academic year is now available for viewing on UVM Streaming here. Many thanks to all who participated in organizing and producing the ceremony, and congratulations again to all of our outstanding students!

The Alpha of Vermont welcomed 73 new members and presented the Bogorad Award to an outstanding junior at a virtual ceremony on May 20, 2021. A link to stream the ceremony will be posted soon, after the closed captioning process is complete.

Congratulations to our new inductees:

Max Allen, Gabby Altounian, Brianna Arnold, Juli Badics, Summer Barnes, Julian Barritt, Teagan Betori, Cameron Bilardello, Emma Blahut, Aiden Blasi, Helen Bohn, Maya Bostwick, Sam Brady, Ben Burns, Elora Buscher, Leilani Casper, Ginny Churchill, Brynn Connell, Claire Cook, Jill Corrigan, Alex D’Amico, Quinn DiFalco, Darcy Eliot, Daniel Felde, Madeline Fuentes, Erin Gallagher, Adam Gellman, Charlotte Graf, Amanda Grzywna, Pleun Haantjes, Julia Harrod, Judy Hoang, Lee Hughes, Sasha Hull, Caitlin Hunt, McKenzie Imhoff, Julian Kafka, Katie Kelly, Sophia Knappertz, Anna Kolosky, Emma LaRose, Katelyn Lipton, Addie Luke-Currier, Elizabeth Mackin, Cai McCann, Marisa Minadeo, Kira Nikolaides, Zoey November, William Omohundro, Thea Pappas, Neel Patel, Jordan Rainville, Cory Raymond, Hannah Ritz, Rebecca Saunders, Yeliz Sayan, Anna Schonhorn, James Sciarappa, Michelle Scully, Will Seligmann, Rebecca Shames, Sara Sharpe, Willow Starkie Kreuder, Ryan Stuart, Camille Torfs-Leibman, Shayla Triantafillou, Luke Vidic, Kate Williams, Laney Williams, Simone Withers, Jessica Wright, Aaron Wynmor, and Lyucheng Zou.

Congratulations as well to Moira Mahoney, this year’s Bogorad Award winner. Moira is an English major with minors in Computer Science and Philosophy.

Many thanks to all the faculty and staff who aided the chapter this year, and thanks to all who attended the virtual ceremony to recognize our amazing liberal arts students!

The Phi Beta Kappa induction ceremony for May 2021 and December 2020 graduates will be held virtually via Teams Live on Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 8 pm Eastern. A recording of the ceremony will be posted after the fact. You can view the live event here.

Congratulations to all the students who were elected to membership, as well as to the many excellent graduates who were not selected. We have a fixed number of spots each year, so it is always difficult to make decisions, but this year was particularly challenging. We did look at students with a 3.6 GPA or higher, rather than our usual 3.65, because we were not sure how the pandemic and especially the Spring 2020 grading policies would impact students’ grades.

Due to the public health situation, the Alpha of Vermont will not be electing or inducting new members in Fall 2020. Instead, we will consider all members of the Class of 2021 — including both May and January graduates — in spring 2021 and hold a virtual induction ceremony in May. The Bogorad Award will also be presented at the May 2021 virtual ceremony.

We had a very successful virtual ceremony in 2020, and all students who are inducted virtually will have opportunities to physically sign the chapter book in the future.

The membership committee meeting to determine which students will be invited to join the chapter will be held a bit later than usual this year; the meeting will be in mid-April. Invitations will be sent via email shortly after the conclusion of the meeting.

Best wishes to all for a safe, healthy, and academically successful year!

An edited version of the Spring 2020 Phi Beta Kappa induction ceremony is available here.

Congratulations once again to all our new inductees!

On Sunday, May 17, the Alpha of Vermont welcomed fifty-four new members via a virtual induction ceremony. We are saving a page in the chapter book for our latest members to sign in the future. Congratulations to:

Josh Audette, Nancy Bernhardt, McKenna Black, Courtney Brady, Stephanie Brooks, Nora Canellakis, Emma Cashman, Daniel Combs, Eliza Corderman, Jessica Crooker, Azilee Curl, Elizabeth Dunford, Brigitte Durieux, Elizabeth Dybas, Aidan Fenstermacher, Alison Forman-Katz, Natalie Fuchs, Chris Gish, Jason Goldfarb, Emily Heon, Cora Honigford, Carina Isbell, Kyle King, Juliana Landis, Kacy Lane, Isabel Lardner, Gigi Lavigne, Caitlin McHugh, Annika Meurs, Catie Michael, Owen Molind, Lydia Moreman, Erin Murphy, Georgia Nelson, Rachel Ocher, Allie Olson, Daniel Ortiz, Reilly Osadchey Brown, Nicky Paulson, Emma Plosser, Julia Plumb, Abby Postlewaite, Vivian Priestley, Delaney Reynolds; Julia Selle, Hannah Sheehy, Blair Shields, Evan Smith, Katie Thorpe, Camille Walton, Genevieve Winn, Abigail Wootton, Abby Zani, Kate Ziegler

Many thanks to everyone who worked behind the scenes to make our first — and hopefully last — virtual ceremony possible!

Through at least June 17, 2020, you can view an edited version of the ceremony here.