More Than 50 Seniors Inducted Into Phi Beta Kappa Society
By Stefanie Johndrow
Fifty-six seniors were inducted into Carnegie Mellon University’s chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society (PBK) this spring. Only about 10 percent of college students across the United States are invited to join PBK.
Senior Eric Barrett delivered the keynote speech. Barrett is one of three inductees who have immediate family members who have also been inducted into PBK. Barrett, along with Alexandra Halberstadt and Rebecca Jesurum, interviewed their family members on the meaning of their election into PBK. Barrett’s keynote speech was comprised of their responses.
Among the common themes they shared were a sense of pride in being inducted into the society and the doors that can open up for members of PBK professionally. The final theme, Barrett said, was the most significant.
“The last, probably most important, common theme that came up in everyone’s initiation ceremony, was an emphasis not just on the past but looking toward the future,” Barrett said. “We’ve all been nominated for our hard work at Carnegie Mellon. This is certainly a recognition of all of our past accomplishments, but it’s also more than that. We’ve come here and learned lots of things and gotten good grades, but now it means nothing if we don’t use it.”
Spring 2019 Students Initiated into Phi Beta Kappa:
Eric Barrett, Physics; Mathematical Sciences
Yi Chen, Business Administration
Additional Major: Statistics
Ricson Cheng, Computer Science
Minor: Machine Learning
Anne Crumley, Statistics and Art
Additional Major: Social and Political History
Forrest Cullings, Business Administration
Additional Major: International Relations and Politics
Minor: Arabic Studies
Chloe Desaulles, Cognitive Neuroscience and Art
Minor: Intelligent Environments
Bryan Ding, Mathematical Sciences
Minors: Japanese Studies; Computational Finance
Yilin Dong, Chemistry
Minors: Biomedical Engineering; Human-Computer Interaction
Alex Fernez, Physics
Minor: Mathematical Sciences
Emma Flickinger, Creative Writing
Additional Major: Professional Writing
Brandon Foster, Biological Sciences; Music Performance
Madeline Gardner, Cognitive Science
Additional Major: Human-Computer Interaction
Minor: Hispanic Studies
Amelia Gilson, Economics
Minors: Mathematical Sciences; Biomedical Engineering
Evan Glauberman, International Relations and Politics
Additional Major: Social and Political History
Minor: Arabic Studies
Zachary Goldstein, Statistics
Alexandra Halberstadt, Biological Sciences; Psychology
Derek Hamersly, Music Performance (Piano); Physics
Yutong Han, Business Administration
Additional Major: Statistics and Machine Learning
Ian Holst, Physics
Eric Huang, Economics
Additional Major: Chinese Studies
Minor: Business Administration
Rebecca Jesurum, Computer Science
Minor: Physics
Prerana Katiyar, Neuroscience
Minor: Chemistry
Erin Kavanagh, Chemistry
Minor: Biomedical Engineering
Bo Kim, Ethics, History & Public Policy; Art
Additional Major: Human-Computer Interaction
Anne Kohlbrenner, Computer Science
Additional Major: Philosophy
Stephanie Kuang, Chemistry
Minor: Creative Writing
Esther Lee, Biological Sciences; Music Performance
Izabela Litwin, Business Administration
Additional Major: Statistics
Minor: Russian Studies
Jason Ma, Computer Science
Minor: Art
Renee Madrigal, Anthropology; Drama
Hera Miao, Information Systems
Minors: Business Administration; Media Design
Cameron Montag, Mathematical Sciences
Additional Major: Computer Science
Amadou Ngom, Computer Science
Minor: Machine Learning
Paige O’Riordan, Decision Science
Additional Major: Ethics, History & Public Policy
Minor: Creative Writing
Nadia Razek, Mathematical Science
Additional Major: Human-Computer Interaction
Margaret Reager, Decision Science
Additional Major: Hispanic Studies
Stefan Romero, Social & Political History; Drama
Sydney Roslin, Music Performance (Voice); Creative Writing
Matthew Salim, Psychology; Computer Science
Juliana Schnerr, Creative Writing; Design
Megan Seiler, Computational Finance
Minor: Statistics
Qian Sha, Economics; Statistics
Zachary Snow, Computer Science
Minor: Business Administration
Isabella Starvaggi, Psychology; Statistics
John Verser, Decision Science
Additional Major: Russian Studies
Minor: Politics and Public Policy
Elisa Wang, Business Administration
Additional Major: Statistics
Xinni Wu, Mathematical Sciences; Economics
Minor: Business Administration
Xinyu Wu, Computer Science
Additional Major: Mathematical Sciences
Yu Wu, Statistics and Machine Learning
Minor: Economics
Grant Xu, Business Administration; Statistics and Machine Learning
Yue Xu, Computer Science
Additional Major: Physics
Minor: Neural Computation
Hyunho Yoon, Psychology
Additional Major: Creative Writing
Huiwen Zhang, Mathematical Sciences
Additional Major: Statistics
Katherine Zhang, Linguistics
Additional Major: Chinese Studies
Nan Zhang, Biological Sciences
Minors: Computer Science; Neural Computation
Xiaorong Zhang, Mathematical Sciences
Additional Major: Computer Science
Minor: Computational Finance
Yishan Zhou, Cognitive Science; Computer Science
Photography by Michael Haritan.