Binghamton University Student Joycatherine Yan Inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

2013 Apr 8

Binghamton University student Joycatherine Yan from Huntington Station, New York was inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest, largest, and most selective honor society for all academic disciplines, founded in 1897.

Standards for election to Phi Kappa Phi are extremely high. Membership is by invitation only to Binghamton University's top 7.5 percent of students at the second semester junior level and the top 10 percent of students at the senior level.

In joining, students become one of a distinguished group. Members have served in the White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court of the United States. They have won Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, and numerous other national and international awards for service and achievement in their chosen fields. Phi Kappa Phi is proud to include among its membership thousands of men and women who, for more than a century, have sought to make a difference in the communities where they live and work.

Phi Kappa Phi members are eligible for one or more of the Society's numerous grant and award programs. Phi Kappa Phi's Fellowships for graduate study, Love of Learning awards, and Literacy grants are just some examples. The Society is proud of its record of helping members advance their education and serve their community through these programs.

Binghamton University is one of the four university centers of the State University of New York. Known for the excellence of its students, faculty, staff and programs, Binghamton enrolls close to 15,000 students in programs leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. Its curriculum, founded in the liberal arts, has expanded to include selected profession and graduate programs.