Daniel P. Aldrich (ΦBK, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995) lectures as part of TEDxPurdueU, an independently-organized TED event on “Confronting Our Environmental Health Risks.”
Why do we feel the need to categorize our reading experience? Why do we care so much which books make the cut and which don’t?
In this interview, Churchill offers a glimpse into the office of the secretary at The Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Newer American university satellite programs in the Middle East are focusing more on fields in the humanities, taking precedence from NYU Abu Dhabi.
When dependence upon technology and reduced engagement turns students into zombies, teaching reading and writing is the antidote.
How will a new ratings system impact the liberal arts? Is it even impossible to directly measure the myriad factors that make up a college or university’s educational value?
William Hickling Prescott (ΦBK, Harvard University, 1814) is remembered as America’s first scientific historian, and his works on Spain and Mesoamerica have shaped the way both places are studied today.
Steven Moore’s book The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800, 1600-1800 (Bloomsburry, 2013) is the 2014 recipient of the Christian Gauss Award.
A. Douglas Stone, professor of applied physics and physics at Yale University, received Phi Beta Kappa’s Award in Science for his premiere book, Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian (Princeton University Press, 2013).
Steven Moore, author, literary critic, editor, bookseller, and avid reader recently received Phi Beta Kappa’s Christian Gauss Award for his latest book, The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800 (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2013).
Michael Lomax, CEO and President of the United Negro College Fund, talks about ΦBK and the founding of the Delta of Georgia Chapter at Morehouse College.
Sophie Amado, who is currently serving as a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, is a Phi Beta Kappa member and recent graduate from the University of Iowa.
