Pi Sigma Alpha

Pi Sigma Alpha, the political science honor society

Every spring, the Department of Political Science and International Affairs inducts a number of its best students into Pi Sigma Alpha, the national honor society for political science.

Selection for membership in this 600-chapter academic honor society is based entirely upon classroom performance.

To be eligible, juniors and seniors must have successfully completed 12 upper-level semester hours of work in political science and international affairs with an overall GPA of 3.2 and a GPA of 3.2 in the 12 or more upper-level semester hours completed in political science courses within the major.

Invitations to join the honor society are mailed out every year after spring break. The 2010 induction ceremony will take place on Friday, April 9 at 4:00 in the Red Room.

New UMW PSA initiates, AY 2010-11

Madina Ahmadzai  Sarah Alvarez    Sarah Corinne Bachmann 

Jessi Bell   Christopher Blough   Rachel Covington 

Ryan M. Curtis   Monique DeZarn   Aida Dedajic  

Erin Dwyer   Chapin Elizabeth Fausel   Ryan Gallasch  

Erin Margaret Hill  Michael Kappert   Morgan R. Kay  

Jonas H. Kjaer   Sarah Diane Leavitt   Kristen Lewis  

Corey Lipp   MaryAnn Mackey   Alexandra Mankarios

Katherine Marsh  Dylan Adam McCartney   Mohammad Hossein Mesbahi

Brianna Mears   Michael O’Donnell   Samuel K. Phifer

Benjamin Saunders  Amy Danielle Smetana   Emily Katherine Thomas 

Kelly Warring   Stacy M. Whitehouse

Return UMW PSA initiates (inducted AY 2009-10)

Michele Alexander  Bethany Farrell    Alicia Grolbert

Nicholas Jacobs   Cara MacDonald   Hannah Miller

Anne Morris   LeAnn Taggert    Caroline Wood

Nadine Zaatar

UMW PSA Officers (AY 2011-12)

President:  Sarah Alvarez

Vice-President:  Erin Hill

Sec’y/Treas:  Stacy Whitehouse

UMW PSA Chapter Advisor:  Rosalyn Cooperman, Associate Professor of Political Science

PSA 2010 Initiates

Return Inductees

1.            Michele Alexander

2.            Angela Francis

3.            Sarah Harpine

4.            Kevin Kallmyer

5.            Anna Lindemann

6.            Mary Maultsby

7.            Hannah Miller

8.            Diana Muncaciu

9.            Bethany Nelson

10.          Mary Wagoner

11.          Natalie Weiner