Recently added articles from Phi Kappa Phi Forum:
2009 fellowship recipients: singing cowboy hopes Harvard leads to the world stage of Foreign Service.
Dec 22, 2009; ... Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship winner Kyle Ensley brings a mix of practicality, creativity and ambition to graduate school at Harvard--and to his life agenda. The 23-year-old has molded elements from his childhood on a family ranch in Valliant, Okla., his related interest in agriculture, his ...
Reading is fundamental.(2009 Literacy Grants Recipients)
Dec 22, 2009; ... Most everybody knows about the benefits of reading to children. But what about the benefits of reading to infants, particularly for underserved families who struggle to achieve early literacy? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the Black Belt region of Alabama, hundreds of ...
Counselor studies others and herself.(2009 Love of Learning Recipients)(Editorial)
Dec 22, 2009 ... Editor's note: Like most Phi Kappa Phi award winners this year, Love of Learning recipient Glinda Rawls answered email questions that had been forwarded to her. She enjoyed the process so much that Rawls agreed to expand her initial comments into an autobiographical profile. Here are ...
Unearthing a passion for archaeology.(2009 Study Abroad Recipients)
Dec 22, 2009; ... Jennifer Kielhofer's childhood hikes on her father's 40-acre cattle ranch in Truckee, Calif., part of the ancient home of the Native American Washoe tribe, were one reason the University of Nevada-Reno junior spent six weeks this past summer on a dig on Roatan Island, off the eastern coast ...
Nursing her way to service.(2009 Emerging Scholar Recipients)
Dec 22, 2009; ... A chance encounter in her first college semester led 2009 Emerging Scholar Award winner Miriam Mahfoud to redirect her educational path. The nursing major at California State University-Fresno was so intrigued by a deaf student's use of an interpreter in a freshman chemistry ...