Twenty-one students were formally inducted on May 12 into the SUNY Cortland Zeta Delta chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national honors society formed to recognize outstanding achievement in political science.
The inductees include:
Patricia Collado
Alexander A. Dean
Sandra L. Erickson
Cassidy L. Fisk
Eleanor E. Fitzgerald
Kyle R. Hebden
Al-Amin M. Johnson
Bradley L. Kaufman
Kimberly J. Kodis
Jennifer R. Lutz
Todd G. MacIntosh
Daniel S. MacPherson
Christina E. Magraw
Christopher R. Montgomery
Patrick M. Palmisano
Jennifer B. Pilacky
Joseph C. Sbarra
William J. Scott
Danielle N. Singer
Bret R. Tinder
Michelle A. Witkowski.
Membership in Pi Sigma Alpha is open to juniors, seniors and graduate students. Undergraduates must be at least juniors who have completed a minimum of 10 credit hours in political science, including at least one upper-division course, with a "B" or higher grade point average (GPA). They must also have achieved an overall GPA placing them in the top one-third of their junior or senior class. They need not be political science majors to qualify for membership.
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, advises the Zeta Delta chapter. Formed in 1970, Cortland’s chapter was one of the first to be established among political science departments in the SUNY system.