To support first-year graduate work, the Society offers annually through the Foundation 50 Fellowships and 30 Honorable Mention Awards, on a competitive basis, to graduating students who have been initiated into the Society and who have also been nominated by their chapters for the competition. The local fellowship recipient is then nominated for the national fellowship award. Each spring at Awards Day, Chapter 99 also presents the Silver Bowl award to the graduating senior with the highest GPA per USM credit hours. For more information about the local fellowship, contact a Phi Kappa Phi officer early in the spring semester if you are already a Phi Kappa Phi senior, or if you have already received an invitation to join the society. The Promotion of Excellence Awards may be given either to support and expand worthy existing projects or to initiate broad new activities that actively promote academic excellence.
Interdisciplinary programs are particularly good candidates.
One award will be granted each trennium, beginning with the 1998-2001 triennium. Return to the USM Phi Kappa Phi Home Page.