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For Immediate Release
May 3, 2004
local student receives phi kappa phi scholarship
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska Wesleyan University
graduate Sonya Roberts has been awarded a Phi Kappa Phi graduate
fellowship for the 2004-2005 academic year.
Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest, largest,
and most selective all-discipline honor society, selected Roberts
as one of only 100 students nationwide to receive the honor.
Scholarship selection is based on undergraduate
academic performance, leadership and service on the campus and in
the community, graduate potential, personal statement of educational
perspective, purpose and objectives, and evaluation reports from
faculty and advisors.
While at Nebraska Wesleyan, Roberts studied biology
and Spanish. She was the recipient of the Howard Hughes Medical
Research Fellowship, worked with a team of molecular biologists
at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and presented the
results of that research at the Nebraska Academy of Sciences. She
also studied for a semester in Argentina.
Roberts, of Lincoln, has been accepted to the University
of Nebraska Medical Center and plans to become a bilingual physician
in an effort to address Nebraska’s growing population of Spanish-speaking
residents.
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