137 UB Students Inducted Into Phi Beta Kappa

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- One hundred and thirty-seven students at the University at Buffalo recently were inducted into the Omicron Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa honorary society.

Students selected to be members must be seniors graduating in a liberal arts degree program or one of a small number of juniors. They must have a grade-point average of 3.75 or higher with 85 credit hours completed, or 3.50 or higher with 100 credit hours completed.

Those inducted and their majors were:

AKRON: Phillip Edwards, chemistry

ALBANY: Brenna Muldoon, modern languages and literatures; Phoebe Neidl, history

ALDEN: Alicia DiSalvo, anthropology

AMHERST: Saira Farooq, geography; Diana Gimelfarb, mathematics; Jane Hoh, pharmacy/biochemistry; Katy Lau, English; Aileen Lewis, political science; Kevin Mott, special major; Sean Nealon, sociology/communication; Jacquelyn Selkirk, political science; Jeffrey Till, mathematics

ANGOLA: Harold Hotchkiss, theatre and dance

BALDWINSVILLE: Karen Roy, history

BARDONIA: Matthew Mirenberg, psychology

BATH: Jessica Jensen, psychology; Jennifer Smith, history/psychology

BAYSIDE: Alan Tang, biological sciences

BROOKLYN: Deborah Cohen, English; Michael D'Agostino, social sciences interdisciplinary/modern languages and literatures; Stacey Katz, social sciences interdisciplinary; Siu Ng, biochemistry

BUFFALO: Jocelyn Bell, mathematics; Joseph Bissonette, philosophy; William Bohen, political science; Elizabeth Chilungu, English/psychology; Susan Cutrona, anthropology/psychology; Janice Dekoff, theatre and dance; Aya Karpinska, special major; Monica Karwan, theatre and dance; Kevin Kelly, English; Aviva Kugel, special major; Tze Liu, psychology; Joshua Lopez, English; Nicholas Mann, special major/computer science and engineering; Sarah McLean-Plunkett, art history; Anthony Noody, economics/planning and design; Danuta Nycz, linguistics; Laura Ortiz-Garrett, English; Liana Scott, psychology/social sciences interdisciplinary; Jennifer Stachnik, biological sciences; Yan Tang, political science; Jeffrey Tress, English; Catharine Weitz, anthropology; Leslie Zabranskey, psychology

BURNT HILLS: Kirk Costion, anthropology

CAMILLUS: Jeffrey Wescott, psychology

CHEEKTOWAGA: Kimberly Arnold, political science; Elizabeth Colella, communication; Jennifer Egloff, mathematics; Nicole Jarzyniecki, modern languages and literatures/sociology; Amy Sorrentino, modern languages and literatures; Russ Walko media study

CLARENCE: Katherine Rizzone, special major; Robyn Washousky, social sciences interdisciplinary

COLDEN: Sarah Wallace, history

CORNING: Benjamin Stermole, chemistry/biochemistry

EAST AMHERST: Monika Chatrath, biological sciences; Amy Koller, communicative disorders and sciences; Katherine Ogilvie, psychology/social sciences interdisciplinary

ELMA: Eric Kancar, theatre and dance; Megan Rieman, chemistry/biochemical pharmacology

FAIRPORT: Laura Johnson, anthropology; Anna Thor, special major/anthropology

FLUSHING: Ron Mitzner, anthropology

FOREST HILLS: Michael Davitiashvili, political science

FREDONIA: Scott Napieralski, computer science and engineering

GRAND ISLAND: Melissa Hubbard, English; Kristen McGowan, anthropology; Elizabeth Zilbauer, English

FULTON: Kara Callahan, psychology/social sciences interdisciplinary

GETZVILLE: Kristen Cox, special major

HAMBURG: Sarah Dahl, English; Anna Kusche, psychology/American studies; Molly Moore, biological sciences; Matthew Roslund, English; Maureen Waterman, biological sciences

HAMILTON: Emily Gavett, chemistry

HARRIMAN: Donna Esposito, biological sciences

HARWICK, PA.: Tatiana Petrone, anthropology

HENRIETTA: Rae-Anne Dougan, psychology/social sciences interdisciplinary

HOLLAND: Todd Bindig, philosophy/history

HOMER: Andrea Cleveland, English

HONEOYE FALLS: Daniel Tobin, political science

HUNTINGTON STATION: Jessica Tabor, communicative disorders and sciences

JERICHO: Michael Gelfand, history/political science

KEENE: Julia Kameron, mathematics/art history

KENMORE: Olgierd Burzynski, biochemistry; Jessica Wiltse, political science

KINGSTON: Theodore Brasky, social sciences interdisciplinary

LAKEVILLE: Mark Whitford Jr., political science/philosophy

LANCASTER: Jessica Kiser, psychology; Dana Winiewicz, psychology

LIVERPOOL: Joanne Colosi, English; David Padalino, biological sciences

LOCKPORT: Anna Klimaszewska, social sciences interdisciplinary

MELVILLE: Lindsey Grober, psychology

MERRICK: Michelle DiCarlo, psychology

MONROE: Adam Christensen, psychology; Micah Geer, psychology

NEWARK: Jeremy Huntone, political science

NEW PALTZ: Ariana Duke, communicative disorders and sciences

NORTH TONAWANDA: Britt Gebhardt, media study; Jason Glashauser, political science; Jessica Pinto, psychology; Jason Silvis, English

ONEONTA: Jonathan Bonebrake, psychology/English

ORCHARD PARK: Nicole Scouras, chemistry; Jennifer Sharf, special major

PAVILION: Jenna Lay, English

PENFIELD: Andrew Sokolow, chemistry/biological sciences

PLAINVIEW: Eric Bernstein, computer science and engineering; Jessica Kleinhaut, communicative disorders and sciences

POTSDAM: Melissa Shepherd, social sciences interdisciplinary

ROCHESTER: Vijay Bansal, special major; Nathan Bidwell, computer science and engineering; Jason Duerr, English

ROCHESTER HILLS, MICH.: Mari McClure, psychology/social sciences interdisciplinary

ROCK HILL: Jeremy Kaufman, history

RODMAN: Katherine Pickert, art history

SARATOGA SPRINGS: Katherine Dutcher, English/social sciences interdisciplinary

SLOAN: Eric Decker, computer science and engineering

SOMERS: Steven Schoenberg, history

TONAWANDA: Adam Koniak, psychology

WEBSTER: Kristy Barry, social sciences interdisciplinary

WEST NYACK: Adrienne Panagides, psychology

WHITE PLAINS: Kevin Green, geography

WILLIAMSVILLE: Sarim Ahmed, biological sciences; Harvinder Bedi, chemistry/biochemistry; Karla Braun, linguistics/modern languages and literatures; David Doyle, history; Marina Dukhon, mathematics/computer science and engineering; Elyssa Pohl, psychology; Jessica Przybyla, political science; Elizabeth Volz, biological sciences, and Jonathan Zybala, media study/geology.