September 8, 2015
For the second straight year, the Beta Xi Chapter of Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy won the Kappa Psi Frank H. Eby Scholarship Tray Award for having all 48 members earn at least a 3.0 grade point average during the 2014–2015 school year.
The award is given annually to the Kappa Psi chapter with the highest percentage of second-year and third-year students in the nation with a GPA of at least 3.0. This is the second year in a row that the School’s chapter has won the award. The fraternity received the award at the Kappa Psi national convention in Denver, Colorado, on August 4–9.
“The Kappa Psi central office had to call our faculty adviser, Steve Dedrick, and verify that there hadn’t been a mistake since it seemed unlikely that we had achieved 100 percent for the award criteria,” said Chase Sasser, second-year pharmacy student and president of the Beta Xi Chapter. “Only one chapter out of more than 90 collegiate chapters received this award, and it was a great honor to be the recipient for back-to-back years.”
The fraternity chapter was also recognized at the convention as being one of the top 25 highest performing chapters in the nation over the past year, Sasser said.
During the school year, the fraternity is involved in medically related service events like Operation Healing Angel, which provides free health-care services to wounded veterans. The fraternity will also begin holding community flu clinics this fall. Members are also involved in volunteer events like Habitat for Humanity and the Durham Food Bank, Sasser said.
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