BSPH students inducted into Phi Beta Kappa

November 19, 2014

Fourteen of the 148 undergraduates admitted into Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most honored college honorary society, are students at the Gillings School of Global Public Health.

Phi Beta Kappa membership is open to undergraduates in the college and professional degree programs who meet stringent eligibility requirements.

A student who has completed 75 hours of course work in the liberal arts and sciences with a GPA of 3.85 or better (on a 4-point scale) is eligible for membership. Also eligible is any student who has completed 105 hours of course work in the liberal arts and sciences with a 3.75 GPA. Grades earned at other universities are not considered. Less than 1 percent of all college students qualify.

Justin Barnes	Natalie Broadway	Glenn Boyles	Luma Essaid	Danielle Fishman
Megan Gurjar	Blake Hauser	Mahreed Khan	Andrew Koo	Radha Patel
Mary Peeler	Kristen Rhodin	Max Seunik	Jackie Wallace

Inductees include Justin Michael Barnes, Natalie Nicole Broadway, Megan Seema Gurjar, Luma Essaid and Mahreed Rahman Khan (nutrition majors); Kristen Elizabeth Rhodin (biostatistics major); Glenn Patrick Boyles, Danielle Joan Fishman, Mary Elizabeth Peeler, and Maximillian P. M. Seunik (health policy and management majors); and Radha Piyush Patel, Blake Marie Hauser, Jacqueline Grace Wallace and Andrew B. Koo (environmental health sciences majors).

Past and present Phi Beta Kappa members from across the country have included 17 American presidents and numerous artistic, intellectual and political leaders. Seven of the nine U.S. Supreme Court Justices are members.

Phi Beta Kappa has 283 chapters nationwide. UNC’s chapter, Alpha of North Carolina, was founded in 1904 and is the oldest of seven chapters in the state. Each year, Phi Beta Kappa chapters and alumni associations across the country raise and distribute more than $1 million in awards, scholarships and prizes benefiting high schools and college students.