“Being inducted into the most prestigious liberal arts and sciences society, when I am most often identified as an engineer, feels like such an immense and precious honor.”
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.
A free and self-governing people require engaged and informed members of society. For this project, liberal arts education remains absolutely essential.
Our spring plans for the National Arts and Sciences Initiative include developing new tools, resources, and opportunities for members…
“ΦBK represents an additional open door. The opportunities and friends are yours, if you are just willing to walk through.” —Ashleigh Hildebrand Ross (ΦBK, Oklahoma State University)
Lee Panich (ΦBK, Brown University) digs for a middle ground complicating the realities of Spanish missionization and Native Californians’ existence.
The critical thinking, logic, and structured analysis skills developed while pursuing her math degree at Stanford aid Geisse every day as COO of Whistlestop.
David Scarrow (ΦBK, Duke University) inspired three generations of his family to become ΦBK by pursuing the ideals of a broad but rigorous education.
Elizabeth Ainsworth, (ΦBK, UCLA) was recognized for her work on the effects of rising pollution in the atmosphere on worldwide staple crops.
Art historian Alison Pearlman (ΦBK, University of California, Berkeley) brings an intellectual and multidisciplinary appetite to the table.
David Mura (ΦBK, Grinnell College), Brian Freeman (ΦBK, Carleton College), and Pat Schmatz (ΦBK, Michigan State University) were recently selected as 2019 finalists.
Both professors at High Point University, the Blossers first met at their ΦBK induction ceremony at Texas Christian University in 2002.
