Lebanon Valley College

Lebanon Valley College has named 11 outstanding students to the Pallas Society on campus. The Pallas Society is a campus-based honor society established at Lebanon Valley College on April 19, 2009. Membership consists of outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni who are committed to social justice in its many forms. An induction ceremony is held each year in the spring. The four pillars of the society are Truth, Diversity, Justice, and Action. The inductees were eligible for membership based on participation in the Social Justice Institute earlier this year. Local inductees include:

Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pa., has inducted 110 students to its chapter of Phi Alpha Epsilon, an academic and service honor society. Local inductees include:

Lebanon Valley College has named its inductees for Beta Beta Beta, the Biology Department honor society. Tri Beta is a society for students, particularly undergraduates, dedicated to improving the understanding and appreciation of biological study and extending boundaries of human knowledge through scientific research. Since its founding in 1922, more than 200,000 persons have been accepted into lifetime membership, and more than 553 chapters have been established throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Local inductees include:

Lebanon Valley College has named its inductees for Phi Sigma Iota, the Department of Languages honor society, which recognizes outstanding accomplishment in the study or teaching of any of the academic fields related to foreign language, literature, or culture. These fields include not only modern foreign languages, but also classics, linguistics, philology, comparative literature, bilingual education, second language acquisition and other interdisciplinary programs with a significant foreign language component. Phi Sigma Iota is the highest academic honor in the field of foreign languages, with 250 chapters of Phi Sigma Iota at institutions of higher learning in the US, Mexico, and France. Local inductees include:

Lebanon Valley College has named its inductees for Psi Chi, the Psychology Department honor society. Psi Chi was founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence in scholarship, and advancing the science of psychology. Membership is open to graduate and undergraduate men and women who are making the study of psychology one of their major interests, and who meet the minimum qualifications. Students must have a College and departmental GPA of 3.20 or higher. Throughout the year, this group takes part in many fundraisers and community events. Further, they put on a speaker series related to psychology and a conference where both students and researchers present their original data. The LVC organization takes pride in sending students to the Eastern Psychological Conference held each spring, and encourages its members to become more involved in the greater society of psychology. Local inductees include:

Lebanon Valley College has named its inductees for Alpha Sigma Lambda, the Continuing Education Department honor society. Alpha Sigma Lambda aims to recognize the special achievements of adults who accomplish academic excellence while facing competing interests of home and work. Alpha Sigma Lambda is dedicated to the advancement of scholarship and recognizes high scholastic achievement in an adult student's career. By so doing, this Society encourages many students to continue toward and to earn associate and baccalaureate degrees. Through leadership born of effort, both scholastically and fraternally, Alpha Sigma Lambda inspires its candidates to give of their strengths to their fellow students and communities through their academic achievements. To the newcomer in higher education, Alpha Sigma Lambda stands as an inspiration to scholastic growth and an invitation to associate with similarly motivated students. Local inductees include:

Lebanon Valley College has named its inductees for Alpha Kappa Delta, the Sociology and Criminal Justice Department honor society. Alpha Kappa Delta is dedicated to the ideal of Athropon Katamannthanein Diakonesin or "to investigate humanity for the purpose of service." AKD seeks to acknowledge and promote excellence in scholarship in the study of sociology, the research of social problems, and such other social and intellectual activities as will lead to improvement in the human condition. Local inductees include:

Lebanon Valley College has named its inductees for Phi Kappa Pi, the Business and Economics Department honor society. Phi Kappa Pi is open to business, accounting, and economics majors. Selection is made by business department faculty. Membership is open to those with junior or senior status and a department GPA of 3.4 or higher and a college GPA of 3.25 or higher. Candidates for membership must also exhibit participation in department, college, or community activities demonstrating leadership and non-academic involvement. Local inductees include: