In the more than 230 years since the Society was founded, Phi Beta Kappa and its signature gold key have become pop culture icons as American as apple pie and Mickey Mouse. The name “Phi Beta Kappa” is now a common expression for “excellence” in any profession or endeavor. References to Phi Beta Kappa appear daily in American newspapers and in other popular media. Here are some of the past month’s stories about us and our members from around the country...
APRIL 2012
Martinsville resident Neil St. Clair is engaged
NJ.com
He received degrees in journalism and political science, both magna cum laude, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. After two years as a television news reporter in Binghamton, NY and New York City, Neil currently lives in Manhattan where he is an ...
Letter: What PBK Really Means
Harvard Crimson
First is the view, perpetuated by this article, that Phi Beta Kappa or any other system of distinguishing students, is naturalized and objective. According to the article, the process of selecting students who take diverse classes helps to separate the ...
Karlan presents Phi Beta Kappa lecture on adapting Constitution ...
Pamela S. Karlan, professor of public interest law and co-director of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Stanford Law School, presented Luther's 2012 Phi ...
2Do This Week: Cultural Events Around Town
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
His "The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning" won the Phi Beta Kappa Society's 2009 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for works that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of ...
Ryan Carter Named a Truman Scholar
ReadMedia (press release)
He is a member of the Society of '91 (leadership program), the national honor societies Phi Beta Kappa (academics) and Omicron Delta Kappa (leadership), and was selected for Who's Who Among Students in Universities and Colleges.
Three Recognized as Generals of the Month for April
Washington and Lee University News Office (blog)
He is the president of Alpha Epsilon Delta Pre-Med Honor Society, president of Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honor Society, member of Phi Beta Kappa, member of Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society and winner of The Williams Prize for the junior with the highest GPA ...
W&L Senior Wins National Mental-Health Advocacy Award
Washington and Lee University News Office (blog)
In addition to her work with Active Minds, Tipton was recently inducted into Phi Beta Kappa; belongs to the Student Recruitment Committee; and chaired public relations and marketing for Chi Omega sorority. She belongs to the Beta Beta Beta Biology ...
James Farm On JazzSet
NPR
He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University and quickly won the 1991 Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition. Warner Brothers signed him to make a string of successful albums. From 2004 to '07, he was first among equals in the ...
Influencer of the Week: Ashley Judd
Huffington Post
This Phi Beta Kappa has come back swinging in The Daily Beast with an essay that she's calling "The Conversation." She's grabbing the opportunity to influence women and men alike on the often damaging and self-destructive link between outer presence ...
Retired faculty member's book on prestigious list
Mississippi State Newsroom
During her campus tenure, she served as the first chairperson of women's studies, as well as president of the Northeast Mississippi Graduate Association of Phi Beta Kappa and the MSU chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, both international honor societies.
Two Auburn University student-athletes named finalists for NCAA Walter Byers ...
WLTZ 38 NBC
Currently studying medicine, Mazzaferro is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, National Society of Leadership and Success, Sigma Alpha Pi, Golden Key International Honor Society, Delta Epsilon Iota and National Society of Collegiate Scholars.
Pardie named UIS provost
The State Journal-Register
A native of Muscatine, Iowa, Pardie is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Iowa where she was awarded a degree in psychology with highest distinction and received the Ernest R. Johnson Memorial Prize for Academic Standing.
Best-selling author Wes Moore NCCC's commencement speaker
Niagara Gazette
Moore graduated Phi Theta Kappa as a commissioned officer from Valley Forge Military College in 1998 and Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University in 2001 with a bachelor's in International Relations. He later attended Oxford University as a Rhodes ...
Essex named Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
Western News
By Mitch Zimmer “It was a complete surprise to me,” said the Applied Mathematics Department professor, who did a double-take when informed he would a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar for Fall 2012. “In fact, when I got the initial letter on their ...
Times columnist honors history, accomplishment at convocation
TCU 360
Sinn's fellow honors students were recognized as senior scholars and inductees in the Phi Beta Kappa Society by Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Nowell Donovan. Only 10 percent of liberal arts students were inducted into the society, ...
Movers & Shakers for April 22, 2012
MetroWest Daily News
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale University with a bachelor's degree, Rankin earned his medical degree from the Boston University School of Medicine and is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, the medical honor society. He has been a member of the ...
Wildcats Place Three on Academic All-Big 12 Teams
K-StateSports.com
Within the economics department, Niedermayerova has been highly decorated, as she was the recipient of the Dudley Williams Sophomore Book Prize, awarded annually to two outstanding sophomores by the Beta of Kansas Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and the ...
Washington College's Andrea Clarke Receives Gerda Blumenthal Phi Beta Kappa Award
ReadMedia (press release)
CHESTERTOWN, MD (04/25/2012)(readMedia)-- This year, Washington College sophomores Andrea Clarke and Nicolas Campisi received the Gerda Blumenthal Phi Beta Kappa Award. Made possible by former dean of the College Robert Kirkwood, the Award is extended ...
Birch Douglas Receives Patrick Henry Award
ReadMedia (press release)
At Hampden-Sydney Douglass was a member of the football team and brother in the Kappa Alpha fraternity. He was inducted into the honor societies Omicron Delta Kappa (leadership), Phi Beta Kappa (academics), and Phi Delta Phi (law).
The Small Business Authority Hour Focuses on Economic and Employment Trends
MarketWatch (press release)
Dr. Harris holds a PhD in economics from Columbia University and a BA in economics from the University of Texas, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. President and CEO, Barry Sloane said, "We are thrilled to have a world class economist, Maury Harris, ...
Joan Rivers to perform at UPAC this Saturday
Almanac Weekly
After graduating Phi Beta Kappa, she got a job as a buyer at a department store and married the boss's son. The marriage lasted six months (“six months longer than it should have,” she notes). There followed “seven long years of having to survive ...
10 Things Your Commencement Speaker Won't Tell You
Wall Street Journal
Is that pretty girl Phi Beta Kappa? Marry her. I became sick of commencement speeches at about your age. My first job out of college was writing speeches for the governor of Maine. Every spring, I would offer extraordinary tidbits of wisdom to ...
10 Things They Won't Tell You at Graduation
Fox News (blog)
You will do better in life if you have a second economic oar in the water. I also want to alert you to the fact that commencement is like shooting smart fish in a barrel. The Phi Beta Kappa members will have pink-and-blue ribbons on their gowns.
'Too Big to Fail' Banks Less Profitable and More Risky Than Sustainability ...
Huffington Post
Tom Bowmer is a Corporate Financial Analyst with HIP Investor Inc., a Phi Beta Kappa fellow from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MBA from San Francisco State University. NOTE: This is not an offer of securities nor a solicitation.
Our “ΦBK in the News” feature is powered by Google Alerts. We select specific stories to include from a search using the keywords: “Phi Beta Kappa.” The Phi Beta Kappa Society is not responsible for the accuracy or content of media sources compiled by Google Alerts.