Read about ΦΒΚ winners and finalists for this year’s MacArthur Foundation Fellowships, Root 100, Carnegie Medals, Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes.
Since 1956, the Society’s Visiting Scholar Program has been offering undergraduates the opportunity to spend time with some of America’s most distinguished scholars.
Hanelle Culpepper (ΦBK, Lake Forest) was chosen to direct the first three episodes of Star Trek: Picard (2020) and became the first woman to launch a new Star Trek series in the franchise’s 53-year history.
ΦΒΚ member and Harvard-based economist Raj Chetty is the winner of the 2019 A.SK Social Science Award and its $200,000 prize.
This spring, the Society launched its newest program providing $5,000 scholarships to students interested in public sector work.
Phi Beta Kappa has a unique voice to contribute to conversations that matter today.
Phi Beta Kappa addresses efforts to eliminate funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Reanna Magruder (ΦBK, University of Denver) played Nurse Ratched in the University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Chelesa Fearce (ΦBK, Spelman College) is now completing her first year at Yale School of Medicine studying for a doctorate and medical degree.
In January, all 16 major American law journals elected women as editors-in-chief including five members of Phi Beta Kappa.
Michelle Chan (ΦBK, Columbia University) has been involved with the I-HELP Liberia Project since 2015. Now she is directing their program for students pursuing careers in medicine.
In a time largely marked by vicious segregation, David Alphonso Lane (Bowdoin College, 1917) lived a remarkable life of excellence in the field of education and in service to his country.
