What is it like to serve as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar? Jeffrey Wasserstrom,Chancellor’s Professor of History at University of California, Irvine shares his experience.
Phi Beta Kappa presented the University of Miami’s Office of Civic & Community Engagement (CCE) with the fifth Key of Excellence Award and its $10,000 prize in April.
Among English departments at 52 of the nation’s leading universities, only four require English majors to take a class dedicated to Shakespeare.
Meet the woman who paved the way for the development of tests for BRCA gene mutations, giving patients the opportunity to choose a course of preventative treatment for breast cancer.
Jennifer Lackey of Northwestern University and Alvin Goldman of Rutgers University honored for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution for their symposium “Social Epistemology.”
Anna Sitz, a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania specializing in the art and archaeology of the Mediterranean world, is Phi Beta Kappa’s newest Sibley Fellow.
Catherine A. Viano is a PhD candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation focuses on the use of theater machines in seventeenth-century French theater.
For Harvard scholar and critic Helen Vendler (ΦBK, Emmanuel College, 1960), the role of universities is to preserve and perpetuate society by producing the next generation of the makers of culture.
Anna Kottkamp, valedictorian of Notre Dame’s 2015 graduating class, looks forward to a future that combines community outreach and field research in the sciences.
Can integrating liberal arts with professional studies in university curricula help students with career-oriented majors reach their full potential?
In the liberal arts, the skills of critical thinking, creativity, and innovation are crucial to remaining relevant.
John Ashbury was named Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa Poet and was inducted as an honorary member in 1979. He also served as the judge for the 2001 Phi Beta Kappa Poetry Award, sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa and the Library of Congress.
