University of Southern Mississippi pupil, Landry Smith of Laurel, Miss., has been offered a study overseas grant worth $1,000 from The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi –the country’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Smith is one among seventy-five students nationwide to obtain the award.
The grants are designed to help undergraduates, each individual, and nonmembers from campuses with Phi Kappa Phi chapters, as they seek elevated knowledge and experience of their instructional fields by way of analyzing overseas.
Currently, a junior majoring in psychology at USM, Smith will use the grant to look abroad within the United Kingdom.
The selection process has a look at overseas grants based on the applicant’s academic fulfillment, campus, and community career, the relation of travel to instructional guidance and professional desires, a personal declaration, letters of advice, and popularity right into a take-a-look at the overseas program. Each recipient gets $1,000 to be implemented in the direction of the journey abroad.
Established in 2001, the Study Abroad Grant Program has awarded greater than $875,000 to undergraduate students. The presents are part of the Society’s strong portfolio of award applications, which offer nearly $1 million every 12 months to extraordinary college students and contributors through graduate and dissertation fellowships, investment for post-baccalaureate development, and offers for the neighborhood national worldwide literacy tasks.
About Phi Kappa Phi
Founded in 1897, Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all educational disciplines. Phi Kappa Phi inducts approximately 30,000 college students, faculty, professional groups of workers, and alumni yearly. The Society has chapters on more than 300 pick faculties and universities in North America and the Philippines. Membership is by using invitation to the pinnacle 10 percent of seniors and graduate college students and seven.5 percent of juniors. Faculty, expert personnel, and alumni who have executed scholarly differences also qualify. The Society’s challenge is “To apprehend and promote academic excellence in all fields of better training and to interact with the network of students in service to others.” For extra facts, go to www.Phkappaphi.Org.
