Rice inducts new members of Phi Beta Kappa

The Rice chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the U.S., inducted 96 new members at a ceremony May 10.

Election to Phi Beta Kappa recognizes outstanding achievement in the liberal arts and sciences. To be considered, a student must have completed at least 90 semester hours in courses that reflect the pursuit of learning for its own sake rather than for the development of professional skills.

The Class of 2019 Phi Beta Kappa inductees from Rice are:

Emily S. Abdow

Jonathan C. Adams

Steffannie Renee Alter

Adrish Anand

Elizabeth Onyinye Asonye

Sarah Asson

Jason Dean Barton

Arthur Vadim Belkin

Aaron Matthew Blecker

David Joshua Brodkey

Kylie Sierra Burgess

Claire Lovisa Casey

Se Yeon Cho

Kyle Austin Chow

Paige DeVos

Janet Fan

Horatia Sharon Fang

Keyu (Wendy) Feng

Evelyn Frederic

Zijie Fu

Anson Fung

Brianna Nicolette Garcia

Meghana Gaur

Benjamin Girardeau

Adam Golightly

Victor Gonzalez

Rachel Ya-whey Graves

Hugh David Grier

Ziyi Gu

Lin Guo

Hannah Laila Hanania

Tareck H. Haykal

Jennifer Hellar

Andrew Y. Huang

Jessica Changlu Huang

Alexander Yi-Kai Hwang

Allison Leigh Jaffe

Anna Jang

Jiaying Jiang

Saiesh Kalva

Kevin Z. Jiang

Nasim Khalfe

Michael Payven King

Shannon Klein

John Roger Komoll

Erin Kreus

Avesh Jain Krishna

Jennifer Kroeger

Amy Kuritzky

Charlsea Rose Lamb

Charles Vandaver Lemon

Elijah Kunqian Li

Yan Li

Nikolas Daniel Liebster

Clayton Little

Hongyu Mao

Sanket Mehta

Austin J. Meng

Anirudh Mukhopadhyay

Joseph Ort

Tianxing Pan

Mackenzie Parker

Akshat Patel

Mai Duong Thanh Pham

Tri Pham

Nathalie Phillips

Darren Santos Pomida

Preston Quine

Elsa Ioana Racasan

Niral Ramesh

Erin Marye Rawls

Emily Rychener

Emma Claire Satterfield

Brent Schwarz

Timothy Skaras

Abigail Sledge

John Stasko

Aravindakumar Sundaramraj

Christine M. Tang

Swetha Tatineni

Alberto P. Tohmé

Sarah Frances Torresen

Hannah Elizabeth Tyler

Constantine Tzouanas

Anthony Z. Wang

Taylor Rose Williams

Megan Wong

Vivian W. Wong

Felix Yanyi Wu

Stephanie Xiong

Kevin Xu

Saad Nafees Yousaf

Zhiyang (Irene) Zhang

Kaitlyn Marie Zoeller