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| Troy
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graduate awarded Phi Kappa Phi Award of Excellence |
Sheena
Richards, a 2004 graduate of
Troy
University
, has been awarded the Phi Kappa
Phi Award of Excellence.
This distinguished
award is a part of the honor society’s graduate fellowship program and
awards each recipient a $2,000 scholarship for graduate school. Phi Kappa Phi
was founded in 1897 and is dedicated to recognizing academic excellence in all
fields of higher education. It is the oldest, largest and most selective all-discipline
honor society in the
United States
.
Richards, of
Dothan
,
was chosen out of 154 applicants for one of the 40 scholarships.
In addition to the
scholarship, Richards is a past recipient of the Virgil Collins Outstanding Senior
Award and the Millennium Scholar’s Award and served as the 2003-2004 president
of the Square Root of C Math Club at
TROY
.
Richards has been
published multiple times in the Alabama Journal of Mathematics and has made presentations
throughout the Southeast. She has spoken at 2003 and 2004 annual meetings of
the Alabama Association of College Teachers of Mathematics, the Western Kentucky
University Mathematics Symposium in 2003 and two
Troy
University
mathematics seminars.
She is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. James Branton and is currently enrolled in graduate school at
the
University
of
Houston
.
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