Nicolas Emilfork Diaz Receives 2015 Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Award

2015 Jun 9

Nicolas Emilfork Diaz of Santiago de Chile, Region Metropolitana, 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. Emilfork Diaz is one of 80 recipients nationwide to receive the award.

Diaz, doctoral student at The University of Texas at Austin, plans to use funds from the award to attend the Guitar Foundation of America International Convention 2015.

Emilfork Diaz was initiated into the Society in 2013 at The University of Texas at Austin.

The Love of Learning program, implemented in 2007, grants 160 awards annually to support active Society members' graduate or professional studies, doctoral dissertations, continuing education, career development, and travel related to teaching and studies. The Society's robust award programs give more than $1 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 the award and grant 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 32,000 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 second-term 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.