Phi Beta Kappa Society Honors More Than 50 Seniors
By Stefanie Johndrow
Fifty-four seniors were inducted into Carnegie Mellon University’s chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society (PBK) this spring. Only about 10 percent of college students across the United States are invited to join PBK.
PBK Secretary and CEO Frederick M. Lawrence delivered the keynote speech.
“You, I hope, will be a part of a mission that we trace back a quarter of a millennium, to be part of the advocacy for the arts and humanities, to be a champion for free speech and academic freedom,” Lawrence said. “That is the radical idea the founders committed themselves to 241 years ago. And now, 500,000 members, 17 presidents, 40 Supreme Court Justices, 130 Nobel Prize laureates later, you take your place with them. You are most welcome in this society of ours.”
Dietrich College seniors Maria Navarro-Gutierrez and Mikaela Wolf-Sorokin, who were inducted into PBK in fall 2017, gave a joint speech on their time at CMU and the community around PBK.
“Phi Beta Kappa has long embodied the values of liberal education, intellectual fellowship and the importance of understanding the cultural and political side of issues,” said Navarro-Gutierrez, who graduated with a degree in global studies and additional majors in professional writing and Hispanic Studies. “Since it’s inception, Phi Beta Kappa members have fought for the freedom of expression and debate.”
Wolf-Sorokin, who graduated with a degree in global studies and an additional major Hispanic Studies, said, “As members of Phi Beta Kappa, you are now entitled to wear the Phi Beta Kappa key, which holds the society’s motto, ‘Love of learning is the guide for life,’ “Learning does not happen in a vacuum. You are all now a part of a community that not only chases knowledge, but does so in the context of friendship and morality.”
Spring 2018 Students Initiated into Phi Beta Kappa:
Alyssa Aburachis, Neuroscience
Additional Majors: French and Francophone Studies; Psychology
Ian Asenjo, Global Studies
Additional Major: Ethics, History & Public Policy
Minor: Politics and Public Policy
Anthony Bello, Business Administration
Minor: International Relations and Politics
Apoorva Bhagwat, Computer Science
Minor: Mathematical Sciences
Isabel Bleimeister, Neuroscience
Minor: Biomedical Engineering
Can Bostanci, Computer Science
Ziheng Cai, Physics
Minor: Mathematical Sciences
Olivia Cannizzaro, Mathematical Sciences
Julia Carter, Biological Sciences
Minor: Biomedical Engineering
Nathalie Chen, Biological Sciences
Sandy Chen, Policy and Management
Additional Major: Psychology
Sophia Cheng, Business Administration
Additional Major: Decision Science
Yikun Chi, Decision Science
Additional Major: Statistics and Machine Learning
Minor: Mathematical Sciences
Sarah Cook, Biological Sciences
Eric Coolbaugh, Business Administration
Additional Major: Economics
Anthony Didonato, Behavioral Economics, Policy & Organizations, Music Performance
Zachary Ettensohn, Decision Science
Additional Major: Ethics, History & Public Policy
Amy Fan, Business Administration
Additional Major: Statistics
William Ganucheau, Computer Science
Minor: Robotics
Joseph Garvey, Biological Sciences
Minors: Biomedical Engineering, Music
Rachel Gomez, Global Studies
Minors: Hispanic Studies, Decision Science
Daniel Gratzer, Computer Science
Minor: Mathematical Sciences
Devin Gund, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Additional Major: International Relations and Politics
Nikita Gupta, Business Administration
Additional Major: Statistics
Aisha Han, Economics and Musicology
Additional Major: International Relations and Politics
DeeDee Han, Computer Science
Additional Major: French and Francophone Studies
Kathryn Hanson, Chemistry
Kimberly Hochstedler, Statistics
Additional Major: Psychology
Jenna Houston, Gender Studies and Art
Yeongwoo Hwang, Computer Science
Minor: Mathematical Sciences
Menglan Ji, Computer Science
Minor: Chemistry
Rebecca Kern, Information Systems
Christine Lee, Computer Science
Minor: Japanese Studies
Rachel McKinney, Psychology
Minor: Cognitive Neuroscience
Lauren Montgomery, Decision Science
Additional Majors: Linguistics, Statistics
Aline Naroditsky, Business Administration
Additional Major: Decision Science
Sriharini Pingali, Computer Science
Additional Major: Linguistics
Madeline Quasebarth, Anthropology, Art
Zachary Singer, Mathematical Sciences
Minor: Computer Science
Emily Stewart, Global Studies and Musicology
Gowri Sunder, Psychology, Art
Colin Tait, Ethics, History & Public Policy, Music Performance
Minors: Arabic Studies, International Relations and Politics
Caoxin Tang, Chemistry
Theodore Teichman, Neurobiology, Music Composition
Spenser Tejada, Chemistry, Music Performance
Ashley Wang, Business Administration
Jianyuan Wang, Business Administration
Sijie Wei, Computational Finance
Additional Major: Statistics and Machine Learning
Minor: Computer Science
Noa Wolff-Fineout, Neuroscience
Minor: French and Francophone Studies, Biological Sciences
Grace Wong, Global Systems, Management and Art
Additional Major: Human Computer Interaction
Jiayin Xie, Computer Science, Music Performance
Andrew Ye, Physics
Fan Zhang, Computer Science
Minors: Film and Media Studies, French and Francophone Studies
Hanyuan Zhu, Business Administration
Additional Major: Statistics