Phi Beta Kappa welcomes 34 members of the Class of 2017

Now in its 186th year, the Phi Beta Kappa Brown chapter has welcomed a new class of thirty-four Juniors into its arms. ΦΒΚ, the oldest academic honors society in the United States, "encourages intellectual distinction among undergraduates by recognizing outstanding academic accomplishment in the course of a broad liberal education." This year's February election process (the first of three this year), has honored the following members of the Class of 2017:Eleanor Fenn BohnErika Nakamatsu ByunSiyu ChenUthsav Rajaram ChitraBenjamin Rosenstock DoughtyTala Atereh DoumaniNoah Michael FieldsSonia Stephanie GebaVictoria Mary HoffmeisterEzra Charles KaganBurak Ceyhun KaracaElizabeth Rose KuneshJie Hao KwaCarlo Robert LaddJessica Nicole LairdAndy Nicholas LiMichelle Margaret LinIan Thomas MacDougaldSarah Loftus MasterMadeleine Zhen Wei Van MatsuiEvangelos Alexander NikitopoulosMiranda Haidee Sticpewich NorlinKutay OnayliJames Stuart PacksBetty PengEmily May PetrieMarina Lynne RentonEliott Nathan RosenbergNico SedivyBenjamin Taylor SeymourNathaniel Owen ShamesJuan Patrick SotoKaris Elizabeth StubblefieldDaniel Zhu XiangIn order to receive admission to the Brown chapter during the February election process, students following their fifth semester of enrollment must have received eighteen extraordinary grades (A's or S's with distinction) in at least twenty classes, with an additional A or S* for each C received.From all of us at Blog, congrats to Brown's thirty-four most recent inductees. (Now, get back to studying.)Image via.