BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Illinois Wesleyan University senior Jennifer Faust has been awarded a 2009 Fellowship from The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. Faust plans to use the $5,000 Fellowship toward graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Faust, a chemistry major from St. Louis, is among 60 students nationwide to receive the academic honor. Phi Kappa Phi awards more than $800,000 in scholarships a year to applicants, who are selected on the basis of membership in the organization, academic recognition and awards, campus and community involvement, and quality and scope of chosen post-graduate programs.