{"id":17217,"date":"2022-07-06T15:57:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T19:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=17217"},"modified":"2022-07-06T15:57:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T19:57:13","slug":"alpha-lambda-delta-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/alpha-lambda-delta-2\/","title":{"rendered":"K Student Earns Alpha Lambda Delta Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Shahriar Akhavan Tafti \u201924 is receiving a merit
scholarship from Alpha Lambda Delta.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

For the first time in nearly 10 years, a Kalamazoo College student is receiving a merit scholarship from Alpha Lambda Delta (ALD), the honor society for first-year academic success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shahriar Akhavan Tafti \u201924 will receive one of 50 undergraduate scholarships worth $1,000 to $6,000 each, as the honor society issues a total of $105,000 nationally through the Jo Anne J. Trow Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Akhavan Tafti is a computer science major<\/a> and German<\/a> and psychology minor<\/a> from Iran who is looking to expand K\u2019s involvement in Alpha Lambda Delta while collaborating with the chapter at Western Michigan University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Jo Anne J. Trow Award was instated in 1988 to honor a past national president of Alpha Lambda Delta. The scholarship requires that applicants gather at least two letters of recommendation and maintain a 3.5 grade-point average on a four-point scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the reasons my application stood out was my proposed plan to expand Alpha Lambda Delta’s presence throughout our campus,\u201d Akhavan Tafti said. \u201cI hope to do this with the help of this year’s new ALD initiates. The end goal is to create a self-sustaining ALD organization to facilitate academic excellence and engagement with ALD, which will allow more students from our College to receive ALD scholarships for undergraduate, graduate and study abroad funding in return for their contributions to ALD.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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