2025 Fellowship Recipients
Phi Kappa Phi is proud to present the 2025 Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship recipients. The Society awards two Fellowships of $35,000 each, six at $15,000 each, and forty of $8,500 each to members entering the first year of graduate or professional study. Each active Phi Kappa Phi chapter may select one candidate from among its local applicants to compete for the Society-wide awards.
1897 Fellow
Annamarie Thompson
Nominating Chapter: Mississippi State University
Graduate Institution: Duke University School of Medicine
"Receiving the 1897 Fellowship is a tremendous honor, and I extend my sincerest gratitude to the Fellowship Selection Committee and Board of Directors for their support of my academic journey. The 1897 Fellowship serves as affirmation of my educational goals and will allow me to focus fully on graduate research and coursework without financial stress. With this support, I hope to represent Phi Kappa Phi well as I advance my learning and strive to contribute impactful knowledge to the field of pediatric brain tumor research." 1
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Sherrill Carlson Fellow
Quintin Kies2
Nominating Chapter: United States Air Force Academy
Graduate Institution: University of Wisconsin - Madison
Marcus L. Urann Fellows
Megan Honnold
Nominating Chapter: The University of New Mexico
Graduate Institution: Rutgers University
"I’m deeply honored to be selected as a recipient of the Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship. This opportunity not only provides critical financial support for my first year as a doctoral student but also affirms the value of my ongoing research on homeschooling and childhood—as a homeschool alum myself. I’m sincerely grateful to the selection committee, my local Phi Kappa Phi chapter, and my faculty recommenders for this tremendous support."
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Vasilii Maksimov
Nominating Chapter: Alfred University
Graduate Institution: The University of North Texas
"Phi Kappa Phi is not only an amazing community, but is a generous organization that recognizes hard working people and aims to help many of them financially by performing thorough merit analysis. When I applied for the Ph.D. fellowship I was given a harsh notice that the society (intentionally) is full of overqualified and overachieving students that will compete for financial support during their graduate studies. But by receiving this award I was shown that hard work and passion for knowledge is what matters."
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Shaheed Perez
Nominating Chapter: Florida State University
Graduate Institution: University of California, Irvine
"In uncertain times such as these, the Fellowship from Phi Kappa Phi is a blessing, and one that will go a long way into supporting my goal to pursue a Ph.D. in physics."
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Aryan Verma
Nominating Chapter: The University of Texas at Dallas
Graduate Institution: University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
"I'm deeply honored to be selected as a Marcus L. Urann Fellowship recipient from The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. This support affirms my commitment to advancing the health and well-being of older adults as an aspiring physician, and empowers me to help ensure that every person can age with dignity, purpose, and the support they deserve."
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Caroline Whitmarsh
Nominating Chapter: The University of Texas at Austin
Graduate Institution: UT Southwestern Medical Center
"I am very grateful for Phi Kappa Phi's dedication to supporting students in their academic and research endeavors. This Fellowship will be pivotal to my ability to fund my doctoral education. Fellowships like the Marcus L. Urann Fellowship are fundamental to mobilizing academic interests into action that can have a wide-reaching, positive impact. Given Phi Kappa Phi’s core values, their support of my endeavors is particularly meaningful and encouraging."
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Syakira Divany Wijaya
Nominating Chapter: Berea College
Graduate Institution: Southern Methodist University
"Receiving the Marcus L. Urann Fellowship is an honor and a meaningful milestone in my academic journey.
I’m grateful to the mentors, professors, and peers who have guided and encouraged me, especially the Phi Kappa Phi chapter at Berea College, for believing in my potential. This fellowship brings me one step closer to my goal of creating research that makes a positive impact. I'm proud to uphold the values of Phi Kappa Phi as I learn forward with purpose and give forward to empower others."
2025 Phi Kappa Phi Fellows
| Name | Nominating Chapter |
| Ryan Bohn 5 | University of Georgia |
| Emma Boudreaux | University of Maine |
| Samantha Bronow | Oklahoma City University |
| Grant Bruninga | Michigan State University |
| Elizabeth Caldwell | Clemson University |
| Lauren Chaney | Oklahoma State University |
| Niamh Clarke 13 | University of Houston |
| Sarah Cole 12 | Boise State University |
| Katherine Delker | Montana State University |
| Shepherd Dzina 6 | United States Military Academy |
| Anish Easwaran 11 | Texas A&M University |
| Charlotte Ebel | Syracuse University |
| Owen Farrar 9 | East Carolina University |
| Arshdeep Gill | University of the Pacific |
| Lilliana Haight | The University of Tampa |
| Jasmine Hiebert 13 | Western Oregon University |
| Piper Hutchinson 7 | Portland State University |
| Daniel Lang 8 | University of Nevada, Reno |
| Sarah Lanphear 10 | Lycoming College |
| Sophia Liwag | California State University, Los Angeles |
| Katherine Lynch | University of Florida |
| Leila Marcillo-Gomez 11 | Ithaca College |
| Hannah Messinger 11 | University of Maryland, College Park |
| Lauren Milam 11 | The University of Tennessee at Martin |
| Elaine Mooney | University of Memphis |
| Carter Murdaugh | Mercer University |
| Andrew Navarro | Kansas State University |
| Amber Nusser | University of California-Davis |
| Josh Ott | North Carolina State University |
| Doanh Pham 11 | The University of Kansas |
| Hannah Richardson 13 | University of South Alabama |
| Ashley Seiders | Longwood University |
| Zachariah Shultz | Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania |
| Autumn Sniffen | University of North Georgia |
| Chloe Taylor 4 | Virginia Tech |
| Vivian Turnbull 11 | Hillsdale College |
| Zachary Weis | Nebraska Wesleyan University |
| Kennedy West | North Carolina A&T State University |
| Syakira Wijaya 3 | Berea College |
| Tommie Worrall | Salem State University |
| McKenzie Yazan 13 | Western Carolina University |
Named Fellowships
Several of Phi Kappa Phi's Fellowships have been endowed by generous donors. To see a complete list of the Society's named fellowships and the contributors who made them possible, click here.