This December marked the 100-year anniversary of the death of Henrietta Swan Leavitt (ΦBK, Radcliffe College), an astronomer whose legacy and groundbreaking findings remain largely obscured by history.
John Rumpler (ΦBK, Tufts), senior director of Environment America’s clean water program, recently spearheaded the Get the Lead Out campaign, gaining billions for infrastructure remediation.
Practicing tax law with a human rights background appears unconventional, but Nair credits her success to her experience with social justice.
ΦBK member Becca Gadiel of Knox College was named Student Laureate for the 2021-2022 school year by the Lincoln Academy of Illinois for her exceptional academic achievements.
At age 65 Melinda Spitzer graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Florida International University with a B.A. in women’s and gender studies.
Rachel Pollock (ΦBK, University of Tennessee, Knoxville) is a professional costumer and has worked as a dyer at the Broadway production house Parsons-Meares, Ltd. on shows like Hamilton, Lion King, and Frozen.
Former Phi Beta Kappa Senator Rita Dove (ΦBK, Miami University) discusses her latest collection of poems, Playlist for the Apocalypse.
Television and film producer Caty Borum Chattoo (ΦBK, Virginia Tech) skillfully entertains with creativity and documentary storytelling that underline the importance of social justice.
In her latest book Helene Meyers (ΦBK, Pennsylvania State University) discusses films that have brought healing as well as helped viewers and actors to recognize antisemitism previously invisible to them.
Reuters News journalist Andrea Januta (ΦBK, Yale University) earned a 2021 Pulitzer Prize in the category or Explanatory Reporting for the series “Shielded.”
Congratulations to Ardem Patapoutian (ΦBK, UCLA) of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Scripps Research and Joshua D. Angrist (ΦBK, Oberlin College) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, two of our members among this year’s winners.
We are living in a time saturated with rankings, but what we treasure most about a university experience cannot fully be captured by that which can be concretely measured.
