Nazareth College Student Adam Bradford of Hamlin NY Inducted into Pi Gamma Mu Honor Society

2012 Jul 5

Nazareth College is proud to announce that Adam Bradford of Hamlin, NY was inducted into Pi Gamma Mu, an international honor society in social sciences at Nazareth College in Rochester, N.Y. A ceremony and reception was held on April 15, 2012 on the Nazareth College campus in Rochester, N.Y. Individuals must be a junior, senior, or graduate student in the top 35 percent of his/her class, with at least 20 semester hours in social sciences and an average grade of a "B" or better in those classes to be invited to join. Pi Gamma Mu defines the social sciences to include the disciplines of history, political science, sociology, anthropology, economics, international relations, criminal justice, social work, psychology, social philosophy, history of education, and human geography.

Pi Gamma Mu was founded in 1924 by Dean Leroy Allen from Southwestern College in Kansas and Dean William A. Hamilton of the College of William and Mary in Virginia. On April 5, 1929 the Society was incorporated as a non-profit corporation in Colorado under the name "The National Social Science Honor Society, Pi Gamma Mu, Inc." To acknowledge its chapters outside the United States. the Board of Trustees took action in 1980 to change the name of the Society to "Pi Gamma Mu, International Honor Society in Social Science."