The University of Rochester welcomes 125 seniors and 14 juniors as 2026 inductees into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. They’ll join 11 current seniors who were elected as juniors last spring.
An initiation ceremony is scheduled for Thursday, May 14 at 11:30 a.m. in Strong Auditorium.
Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest academic honor society. Membership is by invitation only, and students are chosen by faculty members who also are members of the society. Particularly strong candidates are selected as juniors.
The University’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter, Iota of New York, was founded in 1887.
Here are the University’s newest Phi Beta Kappa members.
Elected as Juniors
Clara Chen
Julia Freeman
Robert Ghetiu
Alhussein Khalil
Ajay Macherla
Aashay Mardikar
| Morgan Napolitano
Alexa Rosenbloom
Nate Shaffer
Grace Widjaja
Claire Wilcox-Black
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Elected as Seniors
Génia Abbey
Emily Adler
Maria Ahmed
Ali Al Qazzaz
Emily Aron
Henry Augustine
Kaan Aytekin
Elijah Bader-Gregory
Samantha Bauer
Aiden Bingemann
Rory Brennan-Jones
Paul Calderon
Kunyang Cao
Stella Carleton
Ella Cartwright
Saumili Chakravarty
Arthur Chen
Jacky Chen
Austin Chin
Audrey Chung
Danielle Colelli
Henry Cramer
Keerthana Danasekaran
Aryan Dhawan
Ning Ding
Spencer Dittelman
Aaron Do
Keira Donnelly
Aakanksha Dutta
Grace Emmick
Claire English
Christina Emi Falasco
Gianna Ferraro
Miles Frank
Ria Garg
Elizabeth Ginzburg
Benjamin Goldstein
Alyssa Gorny
Anika Grieve
Hayden Groeschel
Asa Guldbrandsen
Nyasha Gwaza
Alexandria Hegewald
Dylan Heller
Gabe Hoag
Alyssa Horng
Elvis Imamura
Allison Jackson
Joseph Jang
Linqi Jiang
Ember Johnson
Joshua Jung
Jackson Kane
Mila Kaplan
Sofia Kaplan
Kade Kaufmann
Aidan Keenan
Serena Khalifeh
Riya Kunderan
Quinn Law-Knotts
Alexander Lee
Hyun Ah Lee
Kennedy Leininger
| Caroline Li
Alice Lin
Caitlin Lipton
Kayla Liss
Paige Lovelace
Michael Mahnken Cafasso
Dan Mariani
Ame Martinez Gimenez Valdes
Kyra McCracken
Joey Meltzer
Elana Memke
Ethan Moore
Maryn Morgan
Isaac Morse
Amukta Mummaneni
Willow Nagai
Maia Nguyen
Ngoc Phuong Anh Nguyen
Zoë Noble
Courtney Palmeri
Phan Khoi (Phan Khôi)
Abiha Rahman
Michael Riddell
Aidan Robbins
Aiden Rohrbach
Elina Roshchupkina
Carter Schmitt
Natalie Shank
Kanishk Shanmugam
Allen Shao
Maeve Silverman
Emma Simon
Senthil Sivakumar
Elisabeth Sohn
Hyoyeol Song
Sarjona Sritharan
Isabelle Stevenson
Olivia Tagg
Jiamu Tang
Daniel Thomas
Martin Trpceski
Andrew Tucker
Bryce Tyler
Cecelia Vassallo
Carlina Velicer
Hanna Wang
Hannah Wang
Jingyi Wang
Stefan Wang
Xuke Wang
Zile Wang
Simeng Xiong
Sherene Yang
Yiheng Yao
Haoyang Yin
Shun You
Xiaoran Yue
Hannah Zavalkoff
Hana Zhang
Youjia Zhang
Yifeng Zhao
Jessie Zhou
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