Award-Winning PKP Members
National Awards
2009-10 Marjorie Schock PKP National Graduate Fellowship Winner
Kaitlyn ALcorn
A 2007 Ithaca College graduate, Kaitlyn was awarded the Marjorie Schock Phi Kappa Phi National Graduate Fellowship. This $5,000 fellowship recognizes students with outstanding academic and extracurricular performance as they enter their first year of full-time graduate or professional study. While at Ithaca College, Kaitlyn completed her Bachelor of Music as a music performance major. Her accomplishments in music include acting as the Principal Clarinetist for the Symphonic Band and Summer Graduate Band, and participating in the Northeast Wind Symposium and the Ithaca College Klezmorim. Kaitlyn graduated Magna Cum Laude and entered a Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Certificate program at Johns Hopkins University. She has begun medical school at Harvard University.
About the Phi Kappa Phi National Graduate Fellowship Program
From its beginnings in 1929, the Phi Kappa Phi National Graduate Fellowship Program has become one of the largest and most respected scholarship programs in the country, allocating more than $380,000 annually to outstanding students for first-year graduate study.
This year Phi Kappa Phi awarded 60 Fellowships of $5,000 each and 40 Awards of Excellence of $2,000 each for post-graduate study at accredited institutions of higher learning. Every chapter (of 292) had the opportunity to submit one nominee.
The following Ithaca College students have won Fellowships in the past:
- Joseph Livingston, Chemistry, 2007
- Dominic DiOrio, Music, 2006
- Rebecca Hammontree, Music, 2004
- Bridget Reynolds, Psychology, 2002
- Dheeraj Verma, Mathematics and Finance, 1999
- Teresa Lemery, Physical Therapy, 1997
- Pablo Cora, Music, 1995
- Ann Stewart, Music and Mathematics, 1994
In addition, the following Ithaca College students have won Awards of Excellence:
- Jill Cadby, Health Sciences, 2009
- Johanna Mailhot, Health Sciences, 2008
- Sarah Gates, Psychology, 2001
