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27 Names to Remember

Read about the 27 Phi Beta Kappa members included in this year’s “30 Under 30” list by Forbes Magazine…

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2018 Nobel Prize Winners

Two ΦBK members are among this year’s winners: Arthur Ashkin, Nobel Prize in Physics, and Frances H. Arnold, Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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2018 Book Awards

​The ΦBK Book Awards are given annually to outstanding scholarly books published in the United States. See this year’s winners!

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.

Lonnie G. Bunch III Awarded for Distinguished Service to Humanities

Bunch is the Founding Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

2018 Sibley Fellowship Winner

Kaliane Ung, a Ph.D. candidate in French Literature at New York University, is this year’s winner of Phi Beta Kappa’s Sibley Fellowship.

Walter Greason Reflects on Afrofuturism in the Wake of Black Panther

For ΦBK member Walter Greason, history professor and Dean at Monmouth University, Black Panther is a defining moment.

Editing Her Way Through History

Emily Nemens (ΦBK, Brown University, 2005) officially started her position as editor with the Paris Review on June 1.

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.

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.