2025-26 Scholarship Recipients & Keynote

We’d like to congratulate the 36 brothers from 14 chapters who received scholarships for the 2025-26 Academic Year from the Psi Upsilon Foundation, including six graduate awards! Below is the list of recipients based on their award.

We held an online announcement for the Scholarship recipients on April 30th hosted by the Psi Upsilon Foundation’s Chair and President, Alex Senchak, Eta ’06 (Lehigh), and our keynote speaker Tyree P. Jones Jr. ESQ, Kappa ’82 (Bowdoin), who offered comments on how Psi Upsilon has positively affected his life. You can view a transcript of that speech below.

We would like to thank all the generous donors to the Annul Fund and everyone who has helped make these named scholarships possible. Since 1959 The Psi Upsilon Foundation has awarded over 1.2 million dollars in scholarships to our members because of the generosity of our donors! As we are approaching the end of our fiscal year, please make a gift to support the scholarships and programs of Psi Upsilon today. If you already have, check here to see if your company will double your impact with a matching gift.

Graduate Scholarships

Undergraduate Scholarships

Psi Upsilon was pleased to give out 36 scholarships this year!

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Psi Upsilon Foundation Scholarship Announcement Keynote 

It’s really a privilege for me to be asked to address you upon receiving this prestigious series of scholarships sponsored by our foundation, the Psu Upsilon Foundation. I don’t do this often. I’ve never done this before for Psi Upsilon in terms of just delivering remarks to scholarship recipients, so I thought about just a couple of things to one, be brief, but hopefully give some remarks that you know, not only help you understand more about the Fraternity of which you’re a member and why this scholarship program and the Foundation is so important to our mission, but to tell you about a little bit one about why Psi Upsilon is important – how that has jibed with the values and missions of the Fraternity.

And, you know, how you should really embrace this recognition. It is really a recognition of the tremendous work you’ve done to this point.

Not only impressing those who recommended you, but impressing those through the information you submitted who awarded you these scholarships and to really embrace what you have ahead of you because we all know and see from the material we’ve received from you that the future is really ahead and you all have really rosy and distinct futures to look forward to.

I’ll start with one, why Psi Upsilon is important for me. I joined the Kappa chapter of Psi Upsilon at Bowdoin, as Alex said.

 A long time ago, back in 1979, just time spent interacting with other members there determined that it was really an organization that I wanted to be a part of.

 And people that I wanted to really fellowship with as we continued our education at Bowdoin.

That was exactly what it proved to be, and we had an incredibly diverse body of members covering a variety of different academic disciplines, athletic disciplines. Social activism as we students were then in the late 70s and early 80s.

Just really a support network that carried on long after Bowdoin, which again as I say, jibes with the mission and values of the fraternity which really are focused around having all our members aspire to be Moral, intellectual, and social excellence in whatever you choose to do, whether it’s what you do on campus, what you do in your communities, and what you do as you go out and venture forth into the world in your respective disciplines. I ended up having a tremendous experience at Bowdoin during the years I was there, in part because of my membership in Psi Upsilon and, or as we called it then really Psi U… in the Kappa chapter at Psi U.

So much so that I’ve maintained a strong connection with Bowdoin. I currently sit on Bowdoin’s Board of Trustees. You know, and as a fraternity member, I am one who still lives the memory; Bowdoin got rid of fraternities during the 90s.

So the Kappa chapter no longer exists there on campus. But our house does and has been brought under the purview of the campus. It’s been updated and still is providing a resource for students there at Bowdoin and so so proud to see that when I go back on campus as I do certainly occasionally for trustee meetings.

The other thing I would talk about too is as I looked at information on many of you, I mean. You all in encompass a variety of fields of study, as I heard, I think, Alex and certainly Dick saying. You know, around science I saw clinical psychology, aerospace engineers, statistics, computer science, medicine. Women’s and children’s health. These are all just such important areas and fields of study where we need you to continue doing.

What you are doing and excelling in those fields. And we hope that the scholarships that you’re awarded here today will really help you in being able to accomplish those objectives.

We all know having been through college and for me, law school: pursuing educational endeavors can be costly and all help is appreciated.

We also appreciate the effort you undertook in applying for this recognition, and the efforts you will continue to undertake to be true not only to the fraternity’s mission, but to be true to yourselves so I would end with just being sure to congratulate all of you again for this recognition.

Wish you all the best in your future endeavors and just urge you to really be proud of this recognition, as I’m sure you’ll receive other recognition in your fields of endeavors and as you proceed and pursue success. So again, congratulations.

Thank you for bearing a few minutes to listen to me and thank you for what you do for the fraternity and how you represent it.