The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

FUSE grants are giving 12 UNG students the opportunity to research various fields and topics with faculty members over the summer.

MTSU recently sent 16 undergraduates to participate in the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research and one student, Janna Abou-Rahma, was part of the team that won a highly competitive challenge putting her in the top 1% of hundreds of applicants. More commonly known as NCUR, the annual conference took place this April at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is proud to announce the recipients of the 2023 Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Research Grants. The grants of up to $1,500 were designed to support graduate students who are active Society members seeking funding for research in support of career development opportunities.

William Hennig of Paint Rock and Garath Vetters of Kingsland, both physics majors at Angelo State University, won top prizes for their research presentations at the 2022 Physics Congress (PhysCon) in Washington, D.C. PhysCon is held every three years and is the largest conference in the nation for physics and astronomy undergraduate students with more than 1,200 participants. Competing against about 400 other student research entries: Hennig was named Top Presenter in the Statistical/Thermal/Non-Linear/Complex Systems category for his poster and presentation on his project titled "Equilibration Times of 3D Edwards-Anderson Spin Glasses." Vetters was named Top Presenter in the 100 Years of Momentum category for his poster and presentation on his project titled "Detecting Cosmic Rays on Earth's Surface and Above." Both Hennig and Vetters received a $100 award and a year's subscription to the Wolfram Mathematica software system. Nicholas Swartz of Abilene was also a finalist for his project titled "Modeling, Constructing, and Testing an Electromagnetic Rail Gun with Python." See more details at angelo.edu/news.

The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is proud to announce the recipients of the 2022 Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Research Grants. The grants of up to $1,500 were designed to support graduate students who are active Society members seeking funding for research in support of career development opportunities.

The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is proud to announce the recipients of the 2021 Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Research Grants. The grants of up to $1,500 were designed to support graduate students who are active Society members seeking funding for research in support of career development opportunities.

The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is proud to announce the recipients of the first Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Research Grants. The grant pilot project was designed to support graduate students who are active Society members seeking funding for travel to conduct or present research.

Noor Khalayleh, senior Psychology major at Youngstown State University, placed first at the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference in New Orleans earlier this month. Khalayleh won the top award in the education and pedagogy category for her poster depicting her research project titled, "Assessing Life Experiences: Developing an Ecologically-Valid Measure of Critical Thinking," advised by Michael Raulin, YSU associate professor of Psychology.