{"id":105829,"date":"2025-04-17T12:54:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T16:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/?p=105829"},"modified":"2025-04-17T12:54:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T16:54:37","slug":"umw-recognizes-spring-2025-phi-beta-kappa-student-inductees-and-scholarship-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/17\/umw-recognizes-spring-2025-phi-beta-kappa-student-inductees-and-scholarship-recipient\/","title":{"rendered":"UMW Recognizes Spring 2025 Phi Beta Kappa Student Inductees and Scholarship Recipient"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><figure id=\"attachment_105831\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105831\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"105831\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/17\/umw-recognizes-spring-2025-phi-beta-kappa-student-inductees-and-scholarship-recipient\/pbk-award-winnder-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/04\/PBK-Award-Winnder-1-scaled.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1920\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta='{\"aperture\":\"1.5\",\"credit\":\"\",\"camera\":\"iPhone 13 Pro\",\"caption\":\"\",\"created_timestamp\":\"1743950185\",\"copyright\":\"\",\"focal_length\":\"5.7\",\"iso\":\"400\",\"shutter_speed\":\"0.0166666666667\",\"title\":\"\",\"orientation\":\"1\"}' data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;UMW senior Carleigh Wood poses with Professor of Chemistry and Honors Program Director Kelli Slunt, who presented her with the Roy H. Smith Phi Beta Kappa Award.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/04\/PBK-Award-Winnder-1-300x225.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/04\/PBK-Award-Winnder-1-1024x768.jpeg\" class=\"wp-image-105831 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/04\/PBK-Award-Winnder-1-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"UMW senior Carleigh Wood poses with Professor of Chemistry and Honors Program Director Kelli Slunt, who presented her with the Roy H. 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Smith Phi Beta Kappa Award.<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Each spring, dozens of University of Mary Washington students join the nation&rsquo;s oldest and most prestigious honor society &ndash; Phi Beta Kappa &ndash; with a Sunday afternoon induction ceremony and the applause of faculty, staff, campus community members and their families.<\/p><p>Fifty-seven UMW juniors and seniors were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa during a recent ceremony announcing the 2025 cohort of the University&rsquo;s Kappa of Virginia chapter. They join an impressive roster of members, including 17 U.S. Presidents, 42 Supreme Court Justices and more than 150 Nobel Laureates.<\/p><p>The ultra-selective, merit-based, invitation-only honor is reserved for the best and brightest liberal arts and sciences undergraduates from fewer than 300 top schools across the nation.&nbsp;Only 10 percent of American colleges and universities have Phi Beta Kappa chapters, and at each of those schools, fewer than 10 percent of students are selected as members.<\/p><p>This year&rsquo;s ceremony was held April 6 in the Hurley Convergence Center&rsquo;s Digital Auditorium on UMW&rsquo;s Fredericksburg Campus, with guest speaker Rusty Spears, from the Richmond Association of PBK.<\/p><p>Carleigh Wood received the Roy H. Smith&nbsp;Phi&nbsp;Beta&nbsp;Kappa&nbsp;Award, presented by Professor of Chemistry and Honors Program Director Kelli Slunt. The award and scholarship are given to a rising senior who demonstrates significant academic accomplishments.<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_105832\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105832\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"105832\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/17\/umw-recognizes-spring-2025-phi-beta-kappa-student-inductees-and-scholarship-recipient\/pbk1_4_6_2025-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/04\/PBK1_4_6_2025-1-scaled.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1006\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta='{\"aperture\":\"1.8\",\"credit\":\"\",\"camera\":\"iPhone 13 Pro\",\"caption\":\"\",\"created_timestamp\":\"1743950455\",\"copyright\":\"\",\"focal_length\":\"1.57\",\"iso\":\"640\",\"shutter_speed\":\"0.0166666666667\",\"title\":\"\",\"orientation\":\"1\"}' data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Fifty-seven UMW juniors and seniors were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa during a recent ceremony announcing the 2025 cohort of the University&rsquo;s Kappa of Virginia chapter.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/04\/PBK1_4_6_2025-1-300x118.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/04\/PBK1_4_6_2025-1-1024x402.jpeg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-105832\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/04\/PBK1_4_6_2025-1-1024x402.jpeg\" alt=\"Fifty-seven UMW juniors and seniors were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa during a recent ceremony announcing the 2025 cohort of the University&rsquo;s Kappa of Virginia chapter.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/04\/PBK1_4_6_2025-1-1024x402.jpeg 1024w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/04\/PBK1_4_6_2025-1-300x118.jpeg 300w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/04\/PBK1_4_6_2025-1-768x302.jpeg 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/04\/PBK1_4_6_2025-1-1536x604.jpeg 1536w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/04\/PBK1_4_6_2025-1-2048x805.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fifty-seven UMW juniors and seniors were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa during a recent ceremony announcing the 2025 cohort of the University&rsquo;s Kappa of Virginia chapter.<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Congratulations to the new 2025 Phi Beta Kappa members:<\/p><p>Chasity Autumn Beeson<br>\nMakayla Jean Bowman<br>\nGrace Hannah Buck<br>\nIlse Castaneda-Forkel<br>\nLaura Emrich Connors<br>\nValentine Cotton<br>\nKatie Craddock<br>\nEniya A. 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