GENESEO, N.Y. – Meghan Barrett, a senior from Penfield, N.Y., has received a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Writing Internship for 2016.
The Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Geneseo recommended Barrett to work this semester with the society’s national office in Washington, D.C., where she will serve through May.
Barrett is a senior with a double major in biology and creative writing. She also is part of the college’s Edgar Fellows Honors Program and was inducted into the Alpha Delta of New York chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in 2015.
Barrett also is serving as a website management intern for the Geneseo Office of Sustainability and is a writer of book four of Liber Primus Games’s Narborion Saga. She is the President of Alpha Delta Epsilon regional sorority and was named Geneseo’s 2015 Outstanding Sorority Woman. She plans to pursue a doctorate in biology after completing her bachelor’s degree this spring, while continuing to write poetry, plays, and novels in her spare time.
Phi Beta Kappa’s writing internships are for juniors and seniors majoring in the liberal arts or sciences who attend institutions with organization chapters. Geneseo is the only undergraduate SUNY college with a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, which was created in 2004.
Interns must make a five-month commitment to the program and prepare a minimum of six publishable articles for the society’s publication for news and alumni relations, The Key Reporter.
The Writing Internship Program has two deadlines annually, for internships in the fall or spring of each academic year. No more than 15 students are selected from a national pool in each round.
Phi Beta Kappa is the nation's oldest and most recognized academic honor society. It has chapters at 286 colleges and universities in the United States.
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