GENESEO, N.Y. – Faculty members at the State University of New York at Geneseo have elected 84 students to the college’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most widely known academic honor society. Students from both the junior and senior classes are selected each spring for membership into the organization.
About 10 percent of the nation’s institutions of higher learning have a Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Geneseo is currently the only undergraduate SUNY college with a chapter, which was established in 2004.
The following students were elected from the senior class, some of whom graduated in December (all hometowns are in New York unless noted otherwise):
Katherine Anderson, Newburgh; Brandyn Balch, Avon; Rachel Bellis, Hamburg; Nicole Bergamo, Liverpool; Sarina Bevilacqua, Slingerlands; Giovannina Bruno, Rochester; Eric Buchanan, Central Valley; Michael Carey, Oswego; Dennis Caughlin, Watertown; Joe Chapman, Ballston Lake; Joseph Chappell, Loudonville; Gurnaina Chawla, Saint James; John Cole, Rochester; Abigail Crosby, Hollywood, MD; Kristen Czerwinski, Syracuse; Kristen Druse, Rock Hill; Djoni Elkady, Brook Park, OH; Carolyn Engelhardt, Springville; Sarah Esposito, Endicott; Timothy Filkins, Belmont; Maxwell Garnaat, Victor; Mitchell Gillard, Elba; Janelle Goeke, Spencerport; Jacob Goldberg, Oceanside; Abigail Golfo, Ardsley; Leandra Griffith, Palmyra; Jessie Gyr, Angelica; Harrison Hartsough, Farmington; Jimmy Hatem, Rochester; Nicole Hazlett, Naples; John Hines, Cornwall; Rebecca Huss, Albany; Naomi Iwamoto, Red Hook; Jeremy Jackson, Hamburg; Jack Jenkins, New York City; Chelsea Kanaley, Hamburg; Leanora Karnath, Buffalo; Gabrielle Kinney, Herkimer; Douglas Knowles, Spencerport; Grant Kusick, Sag Harbor; Mingxin Li, Flushing; Jennifer Lomaki, Canton; Kayla Marsh, Belmont; Sean Martens, Liverpool; Robert Matina, Webster; Kelsey McGrail, Hillsdale, NJ; Megan Meadows, Nesconset; Dominic Morell, Grand Island; Kaitlyn Morgan, Hammond; McKenna Murray, Elmira; Eric Naioti, Fulton; Chiamaka Okorie, Rivers State, Nigeria; Douglas Parks, Sherburne; Alexandra Peraino, East Moriches; Roman Rahmani, Henrietta; Michael Ramsey, Elba; Krista Roncone, Pittsford; Nicole Rountree, Goshen; Kathleen Rusnak, East Aurora; William Schutt, Hampton Bays; Jane Skinner, Schenectady; Sarah Smith, Brookline, NH; Nicholas Stafford, Katonah; Mark Susmann, Ithaca; Justine Talbot, Nesconset; Jonathan Tilles, East Meadow; Claire Triller, Glenmont; Mikaela VanSlyke, Interlaken; Joseph Venticinque, Rochester; Alexandra Virga, Lowville; Amanda Wagner, Ithaca; Anna Winters, Duanesburg; Emma Witherwax, Poughkeepsie; and Amelia Yousey, Lacona.
The following students were elected from the junior class (all hometowns are in New York unless noted otherwise):
Stephanie Allen, Binghamton; Alexandra Dananberg, Massapequa; Cara Gannett, Cicero; Thomas Garrity, East Amherst; Jessica Heppler, Holbrook; Hannah Loo, Flushing; Erik Mebust, Cooperstown; Shayne O’Brien, Center Moriches; Elizabeth Ohman, Spencerport; Julianne Sweeney, Geneseo.
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