2004 Awards of Excellence.

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This year national Phi Kappa Phi sponsored 60 $5000 Fellowships and 40 $2000 Awards of Excellence for Phi Kappa Phi student members to support their first year of graduate study. Each Phi Kappa Phi chapter in the nation was eligible to nominate one member for this award. Kansas State University's nominee for 2004 was Mackenzie DeWerff who is the recipient of one of the $2000 Awards of Excellence.

K-State applicants for the National Phi Kappa Phi Awards first apply to the Kansas State University Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship Committee. Members of the committee for 2003-4 are Virginia Moxley, Laurie Bagby, Mary Beth Kirkham, Jim Hohenbary, and Don Rathbone. The committee makes application materials available from November through January with the deadline for application set early in February each year.

Mackenzie DeWerff is a December 2003 graduate in electrical engineering who wants to work in the area of public policy and international law. She participated in the College of Engineering Honors Program and her honors research focused on complex energy functions and a four-generator power system. Mackenzie is currently in China where she is teaching American Culture and English at Southeast University in Nanjing and being tutored in the Chinese language. She has been traveling throughout China and has been to Yangzhou, Suzhou, Tian Mu Mountain in Zhejiang Province, the Sea of Bamboo, Zhengzhou, Luo Yang, Beijing, and Shanghai. She plans to attend enter Washington University in St. Louis in the fall where she will pursue a J.D. with a specialty in international law and a Masters in East Asian Studies.