University of Mount Union
ALLIANCE -- University of Mount Union students were acknowledged at the institution's Senior Recognition and Honors Convocation.
Those students included Mackenzie Tubaugh of Amsterdam, who was awarded All-Ohio Athletic Conference Outstanding Academic Status. Tubaugh is part of the women's track and field team at the university. These student-athletes are recognized as achieving varsity status and holding at least a 3.5 cumulative grade-point average during the current academic year.
Allyson Tweedy of Bloomingdale was awarded the Morgan-Song Leadership Prize in Chemistry. It is awarded to a chemistry major having accomplished outstanding academic excellence, demonstrated leadership qualities and who has successively completed the Organic Chemistry II course.
Each year, the convocation honors graduating seniors and underclass students who have excelled academically, displayed excellent leadership skills and shown dedication to the university and community through outstanding community service initiatives.
University of Maryland, College Park
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Agustin Jauregui of Steubenville was recently initiated into the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Jauregui was initiated at University of Maryland, College Park.
Jauregui is among approximately 25,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year. Membership is by invitation only and requires nomination and approval by a chapter. Only the top 10 percent of seniors and 7.5 percent of juniors are eligible for membership. Graduate students in the top 10 percent of the number of candidates for graduate degrees also may qualify, as do faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction.
Phi Kappa Phi was founded in 1897 under the leadership of undergraduate student Marcus L. Urann who had a desire to create a different kind of honor society -- one that recognized excellence in all academic disciplines.
Today, the society has chapters on more than 325 campuses in the United States, its territories and the Philippines. Its mission is "to recognize and promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and to engage the community of scholars in service to others."