Carnegie Mellon University
March 20, 2015

22 Inducted Into Phi Sigma Iota

By Shilo Rea

22 Inducted Into Phi Sigma Iota Twenty-two Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate students were recently inducted into Phi Sigma Iota, the international foreign language honor society. The inductees all have either a major or minor in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences’ Department of Modern Languages and were nominated because of outstanding academic achievement.

The inductees are now part of Phi Sigma Iota’s Epsilon Epsilon chapter, which is joint with Duquesne University.


The 2015 CMU Phi Sigma Iota inductees:

  • Siriana Abboud, French & Francophone Studies additional major
  • Kate Beittenmiller, Chinese Studies additional major
  • Nikita Bokil, Hispanic Studies minor
  • Hee Young Byun, French & Francophone Studies minor
  • Zade Delgros, Chinese/French & Francophone Studies minor
  • Kristin Dlesk, French & Francophone Studies additional major
  • Emily Etzel, French & Francophone Studies minor
  • Sarah Gutekunst, French & Francophone Studies minor
  • Lucy Havens, French & Francophone Studies minor
  • Andrew Heath, French & Francophone Studies additional major
  • Noah Hermalin, Hispanic Studies Additional major
  • Erin Kiekhaefer, Hispanic Studies Additional major
  • Wendy Liu, Chinese Studies minor
  • Kaytie Nielsen, French & Francophone Studies minor
  • Nicole Sansone, French & Francophone Studies Minor
  • Elizabeth Snyder, French & Francophone Studies minor
  • Kristine Swarts, Arabic Studies
  • Elias Szabo-Wexler, German Studies minor
  • Abigail Volynsky, Russian Studies additional major
  • Samantha Wilson, German Studies minor
  • Anthony Yeung, German Studies minor
  • Catherine Zheng, Chinese Studies additional major

Pictured above: Erin Keikhaefer, Hispanic Studies; Kristin Dlesk, French & Francophone Studies; Emily Etzel, French & Francophone Studies, three new members of the Epsilon Epsilon chapter of the Phi Sigma Iota at Carnegie Mellon.