Senior wins Phi Kappa Phi fellowship

Stephen Andrews

3:34 p.m., May 12, 2004--Senior Stephen Andrews of Langhorne, Pa., has been awarded a Phi Kappa Phi Award of Excellence for 2004-05. Given annually by the national honor society, the award is presented to outstanding students for first-year graduate study. Only 100 awards are presented across the nation.

Andrews, an environmental science major, received $2,000 to pursue his master’s and doctoral degrees in civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Davis, next year. He said he plans to use his postgraduate degrees to work on environmental problems in water pollution.

“I have worked hard over the last four years, but I enjoy many of my classes so it doesn’t always feel like hard work,” Andrews said. “I greatly appreciate the monetary award, which will go a long way towards deferring the cost of graduate school and relocation to California.”

Phi Kappa Phi is the oldest national honor society dedicated to the recognition and promotion of academic excellence. The organization annually awards $380,000 in fellowships for first-year graduate study. Fellowship selection is based on undergraduate academic performance, leadership, evidence of potential success in graduate study, personal statement of educational perspective, purpose and objectives and three letters of recommendation.

Article by Kevin Tressler, AS ’04
Photo by Duane Perry

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