The University of Delaware’s chapter of the honor society Phi Kappa Phi inducted 118 new faculty and student members and presented awards to three students at a May 10 ceremony in the Roselle Center for the Arts.

Phi Kappa Phi is one of the nation’s premier honor societies and the oldest one open to all academic disciplines. The UD chapter, founded in 1905, is one of only 16 chapters among 300 nationally to be recognized this year with a Circle of Excellence Platinum Award.

At the ceremony, Jazzlyn Jefferson, a senior who is a candidate for a bachelor’s degree in operations management and marketing, was presented the annual chapter award.

Heather Morgan Marsh, a senior who is a candidate for an honors degree with distinction in cognitive science, with minors in human development and family sciences, psychology and educational studies, was named the chapter nominee for the Phi Kappa Phi National Graduate Fellowship Award.

The annual Phi Kappa Phi Undergraduate Research Essay Prize was awarded to Rachel DeLauder for her essay “Why Can’t Peace be Still? The Legacy Continues: A Choreographic Work and Reflection,” written under the direction of Lynnette Overby, professor of theatre. DeLauder, a senior who will graduate with a degree in exercise science and a double minor in theatre and dance, also has had her paper proposal accepted into the National Dance Education Organization’s 2019 annual conference.

In addition to undergraduate and graduate students, nine faculty members, all from the College of Arts and Sciences, were inducted into the honor society. They are Ann Bell, Marcaline Boyd, Rachael Hutchinson, Patricia Burt, Jennifer Shafer, Velia Fowler, Colette Gaiter, Carla Guerrón-Montero and Dominique Guillot.