Voices and Ideas
A Night of Networking with Phi Beta Kappa
Key Connections event at the Time Warner Center in NYC focuses on speed networking for members looking for professional contacts, mentoring, and opportunities for development.
Living in Latin while Building a Digital Ancient Rome
Jessie Craft (ΦBK, UNC-Greensboro, 2013), a high school Latin teacher, discusses his award-winning use of Minecraft to teach students about the Classical world.
Second Year of Key Connections a Success
In September, ΦBK alumni associations held Key Connections events to introduce recent inductees to the vast resource of the ΦBK alumni network.
ΦBK Visiting Scholar Dava Newman
Newman is the Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics at MIT and a Harvard-MIT Health, Sciences, and Technology faculty member.
From the Secretary: Advocacy in Polarized Times
Our advocacy efforts are essential, especially in polarized times. The value of higher education, and the liberal arts in particular, requires champions on both sides of the aisle.
William McInerney and the Power of Poetry
As a Gates Cambridge Scholar, McInerney will pursue a PhD at Queens’ College, Cambridge, and continue his work in education and the prevention of men’s violence against women.
Free to Dream: May-lee Chai
ΦBK member May-lee Chai’s work spans genres, eras, and languages. Her new collection of short stories, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, was published in October.
Seeing the Forest and the Trees of a Health Sciences University
Des Moines University President Angela Walker Franklin (ΦBK, Furman University, 1981) views health sciences with a liberal arts philosophy.