

{"id":20,"date":"2017-02-23T19:58:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T00:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/hkniotasigma\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2025-04-22T14:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:19:12","slug":"initiation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/hkniotasigma\/initiation\/","title":{"rendered":"Initiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><span style=\"color: #970000\">The <strong>Iota Sigma Chapter<\/strong> of <strong>Eta Kappa Nu<\/strong> was chartered and held the first Initiation Ceremony in 1989.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b> <span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong><span class=\"ttfmake-icon mceNonEditable fas\">\uf152<\/span> Thirty Seventh Initiation \u2013 April 17, 2025<em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/hkniotasigma\/files\/2016\/12\/HKNcrest-185x300.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><b><em>Initiate Class of 2025<\/em><br \/>\n<\/b>Shane Britton, Jouri Ghazi, Sarker Mohammed<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><b> <\/b><b><em>Graduate Initiates 2025<\/em><br \/>\n<\/b>John Bannan, Arpita Das, Yi Hsuan Huang, Subhrodeep Ray, Ying-Ting Wu<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><b><em>Professional Initiate 2025<\/em><br \/>\n<\/b>Michael Caiozzo<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong><span class=\"ttfmake-icon mceNonEditable fas\">\uf152<\/span> <span style=\"color: #980000\">Thirty Sixth Initiation \u2013 April 11, 2024<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #9f0033\"><span style=\"color: #980000\">Initiate Class of 2<\/span>024<\/span><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #993300\">Albert Nikolay Bulik, Jalen Guan, <\/span><span style=\"color: #993300\">John L Nori<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong style=\"color: #980000\"><em><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Initiate Class of 2025<\/span><\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9\" style=\"font-weight: 400\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/hkniotasigma\/files\/2016\/12\/HKN3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"132\" \/><\/strong><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Leo Grant Berman<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Graduate Initiates 2024<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #993300\">Omar Abu-Znad, Mirza Asif Haider, Md Waqeeb Tahmeed Sayeed Chowdhury<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300\">Md. Saidur Rahman Pavel, Nazia Rahman, Yusuf Qwareeq<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #9f0033\"><b><i>Professional Initiate 2024<br \/>\n<\/i><\/b>Yimin D. Zhang<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><span style=\"color: #9f0000\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/hkniotasigma\/files\/2016\/12\/HKN2.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong>\u00a0<span class=\"ttfmake-icon mceNonEditable fas\">\uf152<\/span> Thirty Fifth Initiation \u2013 May 12, 2023<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Initiate Class of 2023<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #9f0000\"><br \/>\nJonathan Isely<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong style=\"color: #980000\"><em><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Initiate Class of 2024<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Jacob Grinshpun<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Graduate Initiates 2023<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Anway Bose, Frank Wu\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong>\u00a0<span class=\"ttfmake-icon mceNonEditable fas\">\uf152<\/span> Thirty Fourth Initiation \u2013 April 21, 2022<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Initiates Class of 2022<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #9f0000\"><br \/>\nMark Sitch, Lloyd Yoo<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Initiates Class of 2023<\/span><\/em><\/strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/hkniotasigma\/files\/2016\/12\/HKNcrest-185x300.jpg\" \/><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Gregory Altman, Osama Bahri, Blake Bray, Ryan Hodge, Javier Juarez Mendez,<br \/>\nTimothy Schmidt, Evan Stecco, Kara Yoo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #980000\"><em><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Initiates Class of 2024<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color: #980000\"><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Giavonna Maio, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #980000\">Michael Samarco, Dmitriy Yarmaliuk, Raymond Yi<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong>\u00a0<span class=\"ttfmake-icon mceNonEditable fas\">\uf152<\/span> Thirty Third Initiation \u2013 April 15, 2021<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Initiates Class of 2021<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #9f0000\"><br \/>\nAhmed Alhadidi, Yamen Aliman, Abdulaziz Almeseri, Carly Longo,\u00a0 Paul McElroy,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #9f0000\">Megan Ross, Abdulrahman Thiab, George Zhou<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Initiates Class of 2022<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Wenting Dong, <span style=\"color: #9f0000\"> Dominic Stella, Maya Stevenson, Dakota Vadimsky<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"color: #9f0033\"><i><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/hkniotasigma\/files\/2016\/12\/HKN3.jpg\" \/><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"color: #9f0033\"><i>Graduate Initiate 2021<br \/>\n<\/i><\/b><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Lizji Ding<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #9f0033\"><b><i>Professional Initiate 2021<br \/>\n<\/i><\/b>Emilio Salgueiro<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong>\u00a0<span class=\"ttfmake-icon mceNonEditable fas\">\uf152<\/span> Thirty Second Initiation \u2013 April 9, 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"color: #9f0000\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/hkniotasigma\/files\/2016\/12\/HKN2.jpg\" \/><strong style=\"color: #980000\"><em><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Initiates Class of 2020<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color: #9f0000\">Brandon Begaj, <\/span><span style=\"color: #9f0000\">Benjamin Ewing, Elliott Fix, Byron Gaspard, <\/span><span style=\"color: #9f0000\">Grant Gsell, Ian Mears,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #9f0000\">Royce Pease, <\/span><span style=\"color: #9f0000\">David Saie, Stephanie Torres, <\/span><span style=\"color: #9f0000\">Yanghong Wang, James Woolson, Sophia Yoo<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Initiates Class of 2021<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #9f0000\">Patrick CavalierI, Zachary Kane<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #9f0033\"><b><i>Graduate Initiate 2020<br \/>\n<\/i><\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #9f0000\">Shuimei Zhang<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong>\u00a0<span class=\"ttfmake-icon mceNonEditable fas\">\uf152<\/span> Thirty First Initiation \u2013 April 11, 2019<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Initiates Class of 2019<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #9f0000\">Cheryse Greenidge, Brandon Craig, Rafid Karim, James Lin, <\/span><span style=\"color: #9f0000\">Brad MacDonald, Matthew Mackouse,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #9f0000\">Matthew Mancuso, <\/span><span style=\"color: #9f0000\">Matthew Melusky, Andrea Poosikian, William Purcell, Tyler Ressler<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Initiates Class of 2020<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #9f0000\">Shagar Biswas, Steven Dinh-Vo, Sean Ferrell, Kyle Gerrity, <\/span><span style=\"color: #9f0000\">Noelle Lewandowski<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #9f0033\"><b><i>Graduate Initiates 2019<br \/>\n<\/i><\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #9f0000\">Kaitlyn Sitch, Dongsen Sun, Shengyi Wang<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong>\u00a0<span class=\"ttfmake-icon mceNonEditable fas\">\uf152<\/span> Thirtieth Initiation \u2013 April 12, 2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #980000\"><em><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Initiates Class of 2018<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color: #980000\">Kyle Clark, Dongun Seo<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #9f0033\"><b><i>Graduate Initiate 2018<\/i><\/b><br \/>\nAmmar Ahmed<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong>\u00a0<span class=\"ttfmake-icon mceNonEditable fas\">\uf152<\/span> Twenty Ninth Initiation \u2013 April 13, 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #9f0033\"><em><strong>Initiates Class of 2017<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nRonald Allen, Muhammad Ayub, Ayodeji Banire, Francis Bohn Jr, Daniel Carpenter,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Gabriella Surarez, Abgail Sydnes, Brent Tillman, William Weidmann, Shiyun Yang, <\/span><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">Tongdi Zhou<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #9f0033\"><strong><em>Initiates Class of 2018<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #9f0033\">David Arnott, Sean Martin, Reith Nolan, Austin Nolt, Nicholas Stumpo<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong>\u00a0<span class=\"ttfmake-icon mceNonEditable fas\">\uf152<\/span> Twenty Eight Initiation \u2013 April 14, 2016<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #980000\">Initiates Class of 2016<\/span><\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #980000\">Mary Auchincloss, Vaughn Wiernicki<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong><em>Initiates Class of 2017<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #980000\">Kaleb Barrett, Shawn Billy, Jason Chen, Jeffrey Durelli, Zhenan Li, Gerti Ndrio, James Novino, Nhim Roeung,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><strong>\u00a0<span class=\"ttfmake-icon mceNonEditable fas\">\uf152<\/span> Twenty Seventh Initiation \u2013 April 16, 2015<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><em><strong>Initiates Class of 2015<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nDevin Jiang, John Pham, Joseph Schweizer, Luke Senko, Derek Sinclair, <\/span><span style=\"color: #980000\">Christian Valenti\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #980000\"><em><strong>Initiates Class of 2016<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nClaire Durand, Emile Doyle, Robert Irwin, William O\u2019Mullan, Devin Trejo<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #980000\">Graduate Initiate 2015<\/span><\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #980000\">Saurav Guru<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iota Sigma Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu was chartered and held the first Initiation Ceremony in 1989. \uf152 Thirty Seventh Initiation \u2013 April 17, 2025 Initiate Class of 2025 Shane Britton, Jouri Ghazi, Sarker Mohammed Graduate Initiates 2025 John Bannan, Arpita Das, Yi Hsuan Huang, Subhrodeep Ray, Ying-Ting Wu Professional Initiate 2025 Michael Caiozzo 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