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Adriana Garcia

Adriana Garcia will graduate from Texas State in May 2021 summa cum laude with a B.S. in Communication Disorders and a minor in Psychology. In Fall 2021, she will continue her education at Texas State and begin an M.S. in Communication Disorders. Her career goals are to become a medical Speech-Language Pathologist and specialize in neurogenic communication disorders and dysphagia in the older adult population. She hopes to create and promote multicultural training and therapy approaches to match the increasing cultural diversity of clients and to one day earn board certifications in brain injury and swallowing disorders.

NEWS: Our Chapter 325 has been named a Platinum Circle of Excellence chapter for a third year, 2020-2021.

Phi Kappa Phi is more than a line on a résumé. The nation’s oldest and most selective multidisciplinary collegiate honor society initiates more than 30,000 members a year on 300 campuses in the United States and the Philippines.

More than 1.25 million members have joined its ranks since Phi Kappa Phi’s founding in 1897 at the University of Maine. It is a global network of the best and brightest, a community of scholars and professionals building an enduring legacy for all generations.

Texas State University was awarded Chapter 325 by the Phi Kappa Phi Governing Board in Spring of 2013.  The chapter was installed on October 30, 2013 at 3:30 PM in the Wittliff Collections. The first inaugural class of student members was initiated into the society on April 3, 2014.

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To contact our chapter directly, please email phikappaphi@txstate.edu.

Mi­lad is a Ph.D. candidate in the Geographic Information Systems pro­gram at Texas State Uni­ver­sity. He earned his second M.S. de­gree in Sustainability Studies from the same institution. His re­search in­ter­ests are in cli­mate change, clean en­ergy, and human-environment interaction. He is currently teaching the Fundamentals of GIS at the Geography Department at Texas State University.

Andy is a Ph.D. student earning her doctorate in Geography with a research focus in Zoogeomorphology using Remote Sensing and Structure from Motion technologies to study landcover change. She will be studying the zoogeomorphic impacts of gorillas, elephants, and buffalos in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda in the coming year. She will be conducting her field work alongside top scientists at the Karisoke Research Center, a program of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and the longest running gorilla research site in the world. Her project helped her earn a 2019 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS), a program managed by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Cultural and Educational Affairs, to study Swahili in Tanzania last summer. She plans to use her newly acquired language skills during her dissertation field work next Spring in Equatorial Africa where she will study megafauna in the wild. Andy graduated from the Honors College in 2016 and conducted her honors thesis research on riparian landscape restoration following a catastrophic flood. She is also a 2014 Terry Transfer Scholar and has served several years as a Terry Interview Panelist. As an undergraduate, Andy studied abroad in South Africa at the Center for African Conservation Ecology at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. As a graduate student, she served as a Study Abroad Program Assistant in Norway and Iceland. She currently manages several research projects including one for Westcave Preserve and a remote sensing project exploring hippo zoogeomorphic influence in Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania. Andy teaches undergraduate Geomorphology and Physical Geography lab courses in the Geography Department at Texas State.

Texas State University Named 2020 Excellence in Innovation Recipient by Phi Kappa Phi

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Mael Le Noc

2020 Dissertation Fellowship Recipient

Phi Kappa Phi is proud to present the 2020 Phi Kappa Phi Dissertation Fellowship recipient, Maël Le Noc.  Each doctoral candidate received an award of $10,000.

Towards a Geography of Persecution: The Case of the Arts-et-Métiers and the Enfants-Rouges Quarters of the Third Arrondissement of Paris, 1940-1946

2019-2020 Chapter Fellowship Prize ($700) to Rachel Glassford

Rachel Glassford

Raye Glassford graduated from Texas State in 2019 with a B.A. in English and double minors in History and Anthropology. In fall 2020, she will begin a Masters in Comparative Literature at Trinity College Dublin. Raye has a deep and abiding fascination with storytelling as a social phenomenon; her research focuses on the nexus of fiction and public memory.

2019-2020 Chapter Fellowship Recognition Award ($300) to Katrina Fitzpatrick

Katrina Fitzpatrick

Katrina L. Fitzpatrick is a non-traditional student majoring in Social Work with a minor in Psychology. She graduated summa cum laude in May 2020. Following graduation, Katrina will begin UT Austin's Post-BSW One-Year MSSW program with a full scholarship and stipend via the BRIDGE Project, an interdepartmental initiative (Social Work, Special Education, and Communication Sciences and Disorders) to develop transitional skills in kids ages 12-21 who have autism and other developmental disabilities. 

Katrina's career goals are to create interventions for the disability community, with a focus on transitional skills for young adults and caregiver supports for parents, partners, and siblings of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder.