Honor Societies

Purpose: Tri Beta functions as the Allegheny College Biological Sciences Honor Society. It is also a social club for students who are interested in fields such as biology, neuroscience, and environmental science. All majors and minors are welcome to participate in social club activities such as speaker events, field trips, hands-on experiments, and more!

Club Website: https://sites.google.com/a/allegheny.edu/tri-beta/

Club Email: bbb@allegheny.edu 

Meeting Date: Wednesdays at 7 p.m., Steffee

President: Danielle Aira Savellano (2023-2024)
Email: savellano01@allegheny.edu 

Co-President: Tara Chillingworth (2023-2024)
Email: chillingworth01@allegheny.edu 

Advisor: Lisa Whitenack, Associate Professor of Biology & Geology
Email: lwhitena@allegheny.edu

Purpose: Lambda Sigma Honor Society, a national honor society for second-year undergraduate students, is dedicated to the purpose of fostering leadership, scholarship, fellowship, and service. Our mission is to enable members to realize their fullest potential by connecting individual achievement with a lifelong commitment to serving others while promoting and advancing the goals and interests of the colleges and universities they represent.

President: Eliana Brown, (2024-2025)
Email: brown08@allegheny.edu 

Advisor: Dara Delgado, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies/History
Email: ddelgado@allegheny.edu

Purpose: Phi Alpha Theta is a professional society whose mission is to promote the study of history through the encouragement of research, good teaching, publication, and the exchange of learning and ideas among historians. It seeks to bring students, teachers, and writers of history together for intellectual and social exchanges, which promote and assist historical research and publication by our members in a variety of ways.

Club Website: https://sites.allegheny.edu/history/phi-alpha-theta/

President: Elaina Ginsberg (2024-2025)
Email: ginsberg01@allegheny.edu 

Advisor: Angela Keysor, Assistant Professor of History
Email: akeysor@allegheny.edu

Purpose: The mission of Phi Sigma Iota is to promote study of foreign languages and cultures.

Phi Sigma Iota was founded in 1922 at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, by Dr. Henry W. Church, members of his department of languages, and advanced students who were meeting to discuss linguistic and literary matters. PSI became a national society when Beta Chapter was established at The Pennsylvania State University in April 1925. Less than a year later, Gamma Chapter at the College of Wooster followed them. With these three chapters as the nucleus of the national organization, the first convention was held in May 1926, at Allegheny College. Today the Society maintains approximately 175 local chapters in the United States and at the American University in Paris, France.

Club Email: psi@allegheny.edi 

President: Sydney Hammerman (2024-2025)
Email: hammerman01@allegheny.edu 

Advisor: Thomas Conners, Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies and World Languages & Cultures
Email: tconners@allegheny.edu

Purpose: Pi Mu Epsilon is dedicated to the promotion of scholarly activity in the mathematical sciences among students at the academic institutions that have been chartered as Chapters of the Society.

President: TBD
Email:

Advisor: Brent Carswell, Associate Professor of Mathematics
Email: bcarswell@allegheny.edu

Purpose: To recognize and promote excellence in the science and application of psychology.

President: Emily Mullen, (2023-2024)
Email: mullen01@allegheny.edu 

Advisor: Christopher Normile, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Email: cnormile@allegheny.edu

Purpose: The Society of Sigma Gamma Epsilon was established to recognize scholarship and professionalism in the Earth Sciences. It has for its objectives the scholastic, scientific, and professional advancement of its members and the extension of relations of friendship and assistance among colleges and universities that are devoted to the advancement of the Earth Sciences.

Club Website: https://www.sigmagammaepsilon.com/

President: Noelle Kidd (2024)
Email: kiddn@allegheny.edu 

Advisor: Tamara Misner, Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: tmisner@allegheny.edu