In the East Room of the White House, President Obama graciously presented twelve men and women with National Humanities Medals earlier this year. Phi Beta Kappa is pleased to note that William G. Bowen, a member of the Society since 1954, was among the honorees.
College teacher, filmmaker, and ΦBK member finds an educational outlet in comedy after the loss of his limbs to Group A streptococcus.
ΦBK members Luke and Daniel Brindley, owners of Jammin’ Java, have built a thriving business on cool music, hot coffee, and a background in the humanities.
ΦBK member and Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education at the University of California, Riverside talks about the impact of the great recession of 2008 on higher education.
The Signal and The Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—but Some Don’t by Nate Silver is the winner of the 2013 Science Book Award.
Timothy Egan’s Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis is the winner of the 2013 Emerson Award.
Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures by Claudia Johnson is the winner of the 2013 Christian Gauss Award for scholarly and critical literature.
The Eckerd College Education Alliance focuses a liberal arts college’s love of learning on giving back to the community.
Alex Zafran, the student speaker at George Washington University’s commencement this spring, shared a memorable handshake with keynote speaker and fellow alum Kerry Washington.
100% of the profits from Mandel Beauty Products goes to the Foundation for the Advancement of College Education, founded by ΦBK member Mark A. Mandel.
The remarkable Doris Eaton Travis, last of the Ziegfeld Follies girls, became a ΦBK member at the University of Oklahoma at the age of 88.
The ΦBK Chapter at Elon University hosts a panel discussion on the role of liberal arts in contemporary society, especially with regard to employment post-graduation.
