Needham Resident Earns Prestigious Collegiate Award

Adam Szetela, of Needham, recently was awarded a “Love of Learning” award worth $500 from The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi--the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. He is one of 80 recipients nationwide to receive the award.

Szetela, term instructor at Kansas State University, plans to use funds from the award to attend both the national conference of the Marxist Reading Group at the University of Florida and the international conference of the Cultural Studies Association at Villanova University.

Szetela was initiated into the Society in 2015 at Kansas State University.

The Love of Learning program, implemented in 2007, grants 160 awards annually in support of graduate and professional studies, doctoral dissertations, continuing education, career development, and travel related to teaching and studies. In addition to the Love of Learning program, the Society’s robust award programs give more than $1 million each biennium to qualifying students and members through graduate fellowships, undergraduate study abroad grants, member and chapter awards, and grants for local and national literacy initiatives.

To learn more about these award programs, visit www.PhiKappaPhi.org/Awards.