Phi Theta Kappa Member Receives Prestigious Marshall Scholarship
Jackson, MS-Melissa Friedman, inducted into Phi Theta Kappa at Nassau
Community College in New York, is one of 42 Americans to be named a 2006 Marshall
Scholar. The British scholarship program annually selects American students
of academic excellence who are in their graduate or undergraduate level
of studies to receive the award.
Friedman received her Associate
degree from Nassau Community College. She later transferred to Stony Brook
University in Stony Brook, New York, where she received a Bachelor of Science
degree in physics. Friedman has since done research that includes work
in the laboratories of Nobel Laureates Eric Cornell and Theodor Haensch.
She plans to use the Marshall Scholarship to pursue a doctorate in Atomic
and Laser Physics at the University of Oxford in England.
Named
for George C. Marshall, architect of the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe
following World War II, the Marshall Scholarship was established in 1953
and is modeled after the Rhodes Scholarship. The purpose of the award is
to finance the studies of American students who plan to study for a degree
in the United Kingdom at the institution of their choice.
Phi
Theta Kappa International Honor Society, headquartered in Jackson, is
the largest honor society in American higher education with 1,200 chapters
on two-year and community college campuses in all 50 of the United States,
Canada, Germany, the Republic of Palau, the British Virgin Islands and
U.S. territorial possessions. More than two million students have been
inducted since its founding in 1918, with approximately 100,000 students
inducted annually.
