The Rhode Island Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa elected 32 juniors Thursday, wrote Chapter Administrator Mary Jo Foley in an email to The Herald. Phi Beta Kappa was founded in 1776, and Brown’s chapter became the organization’s seventh in 1830.
To be eligible for induction to the nation’s oldest academic honor society, juniors must have taken a minimum of 20 courses and have earned an A or S with distinction in at least 18 of them, according to the Brown chapter’s website. No less than two-fifths of those courses must be in the arts, humanities, pure mathematics or social sciences.
The number of inductees in a class may not exceed one-sixth of its members, and no more than one-third of this cohort may be elected as juniors, according to the chapter’s election procedures.
The undergraduate members who choose new inductees will vote twice more this year: once in April to elect seniors and again in May to elect seniors who transferred to Brown as juniors.
The members of the Class of 2016 elected Thursday are:
Crystal Avila
Aaron Samuel Beller
Kirsten Grace Bredvik
Nicholas Wilbur Chan
India Halff von Busch Ennenga
Jason Scott Ginsberg
Grant Matthew Glovin
Sarah Brooke Grace
Christopher D. Huber
Lucia Gressani Iglesias
Sukrit Sanjay Jain
Yulia Khoruzhik
Hochan Kim
Henry Ace Knight
Yutong Liao
Hannah Etta Margolin
Grant Anthony Meyer
Dante John O’Connell, a former Herald sports editor
David Adams O’Connell
Max Mackenzie Quinn
Julia Romanski
Meredith Cady Ruskin
Aanchal Saraf
Kimberley Brooke Sarnoff
Emily Petruzzelli Schell
Jared Robert Schober
David Bertram McCartney Schwein
Eli Benjamin Sharf
Jake Aaron Soloff
Merone Gez Tadesse
Maite Beatrice Van Hentenryck
Robert Samuel Weiner
