Junot Díaz is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) and This Is How You Lose Her (2012).
Janet L. Yellen (ΦBK, Brown University, 1966) is the first woman to chair the Federal Reserve.
On December 4, the Phi Beta Kappa Society launched its National Arts and Sciences Initiative at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, D.C.
On December 4, ΦBK recognized Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Representative Rush Holt of New Jersey for their outstanding contributions to education and higher learning.
Meredith Lukens Wheeler (ΦBK, Stanford University, 2013) of Fort Collins, Colorado, was awarded a Rhodes scholarship for her exemplary work involving the Middle East.
ΦBK member Julie Freyermuth’s new children’s book, Norbert: What Can Little Me Do?, tells the lovable story of a tiny dog in search of his special gift, serving as a therapy dog.
Daniel C. Chung (ΦBK, Harvard University, 1983) assumed his new role as Chair of the Conservancy’s New York Board on December 4, 2013.
McDaniel College’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa hosted Harvard Shakespearean and contemporary culture critic Marjorie Garber October 24-25 as part of the Visiting Scholar Program.
Ross Gray (ΦBK, San Francisco State University) and Theresa Ruby are the founders of potentialism, a new socioeconomic model that they recently used to help warring factions in Nepal reach an end to a civil war.
The Saint Joseph’s University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa sponsors Constitution Day reenactment of the Supreme Court Case District of Columbia v. Heller.
ΦBK member Ayanna Thompson, Professor of English at George Washington University, has written the first black Shakespeare film adaptation, entitled H4.
Two ΦBK members, Thomas Ehrlich and Ernestine Fu, team up to share the views of different generations on the value and practice of civic service.
