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A Critical Eye on AI

When it comes to human activities such as creating and critiquing, we flesh-and-blood mortals must remain the deciders as to how much power we are willing to cede to the machine.

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ΦBK Visiting Scholars 2024-2025

The ΦBK Visiting Scholar Program offers undergraduates the opportunity to spend time with some of America’s most distinguished scholars. Find out which scholars will be representing the program this year!

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Spring to Mind

While higher education faces significant challenges both on and off campus, supporters of the arts and sciences can change the conversation.

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Book Notes from Visiting Scholar Natalia Molina

Looking for your next great read? Find out what award-winning author and ΦBK Visiting Scholar Natalia Molina recommends.

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Unreal on Reel, with Director James Kerwin

Directing credits for James Kerwin (ΦBK, Texas Christian University) span short films, features, web series and theater, and for nearly 25 years, he’s worked almost entirely within the science-fiction genre.

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Recent ΦBK Graduates Teach and Serve as Cultural Ambassadors in Spain

English language teaching assistants Claire Nelson (ΦBK, Oregon State University), Miriam Klahr (ΦBK, Scripps College), Maiya Kohlenberg (ΦBK, Arizona State University), and Katherine Steen (ΦBK, University of Michigan) discuss their reasons for taking time to live abroad after graduation.

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Chords in Chorus, with Max Marshall

Max Marshall (ΦBK, Columbia University), author of Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story (2023), talks about his love of reading, his journey as a writer, and his family tradition of Phi Beta Kappa.

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Continuing the Conversation: Revisiting a Visiting Scholar

How can you be a good global citizen in this challenging era when it’s hard to know what sources to trust? Past ΦBK Visiting Scholar Jeffrey Wasserstrom shares some advice.

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Introducing Key Reporter’s Writers for Spring 2024

The Society’s Writing Internship Program is for new ΦBK members who are looking for an opportunity to gain professional experience and support ΦBK’s mission. Next deadline to apply is June 14!

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A Quest to Open Doors for Young Learners

Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Association of Greater Austin has been fostering life-long learning for more than two decades. Learn about their impressive record of providing scholarships for high school students and for older adults.

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Writing in Truth and in Full, with Dan O’Brien

Delving into the most complicated, personal, implicative narratives in his own life and in the lives of those he cares about most, Dan O’Brien (ΦBK, Middlebury College) is doing for others what the confessional poets did for him.

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From Breaking Barriers to Breaking Knots: Ed Ray Reflects on a Lifelong Journey with ΦBK

Oregon State University President Emeritus Ed Ray (ΦBK, Queens College) almost skipped his induction until a neighbor, Kay Bowers, stepped in.