LaNesha DeBardelaben Receives 2016 Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Award

2016 Dec 8

LaNesha DeBardelaben of Detroit, Michigan, recently was awarded a Love of Learning award worth $500 from The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi--the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. DeBardelaben is one of 80 recipients nationwide to receive the award.

DeBardelaben, museum administrator at Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, will apply funds from the award to her doctoral tuition to advance her study of U.S. history.

DeBardelaben was initiated into Phi Kappa Phi in 2004 at University of Missouri-St Louis.

The Love of Learning program, implemented in 2007, grants 160 awards annually in support of graduate and professional studies, doctoral dissertations, continuing education, career development and travel related to teaching and studies.

In addition to the Love of Learning program, the Society's award programs give $1.4 million each biennium to qualifying students and members through graduate fellowships, undergraduate study abroad grants, member and chapter awards, and grants for local and national literacy initiatives.

To learn more about these award programs, visit www.PhiKappaPhi.org/Awards.

About Phi Kappa Phi

Founded in 1897, Phi Kappa Phi is the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Phi Kappa Phi inducts approximately 30,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni each year. The Society has chapters at more than 300 select colleges and universities in North America and the Philippines. Membership is by invitation only to the top 10 percent of seniors and graduate students and 7.5 percent of juniors. Faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction also qualify. The Society's 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." For more information about Phi Kappa Phi, visit www.PhiKappaPhi.org.