Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian by A. Douglas Stone draws readers into a captivating mix of physics, biography, and the history of science.
Jeffrey Alexander, cultural sociologist and professor at Yale University, gave two talks to students at the University of Buffalo on November 17 as part of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program.
Studies find that students who use laptops take notes more quickly and that word processing makes their notes more organized, but what about the quality?
Cardiovascular surgeon and artificial heart pioneer John C. Norman, Jr. (ΦBK, Harvard, 1950) expand the boundaries of medicine and helped save the lives of countless people.
An interview with Charles Samuelson, a graduate student in French at Princeton University and the recipient of the 2014 Walter J. Jensen Fellowship for French Language and Culture.
Our Visiting Scholars travel to colleges where Phi Beta Kappa chapters are located. They spend two days on each campus working with students and giving a major lecture open to the public.
Phi Beta Kappa is thrilled to present the Wisconsin Science Festival with the Key of Excellence Award and its $10,000 prize at an evening reception celebrating the arts and sciences on October 16!
The site has retained its controversial status since its creation in 1999 by John Swapceinski. Now colleges and universities are creating their own rating systems in which all students participate.
Administrators at New College in Florida found themselves in a predicament when the state decided to cut $1 million in funding because the school’s liberal arts education does not appear to fulfill the state’s criteria for student success.
Boston College biology professor Laura Hake creates a unique classroom experience that empowers a diverse pool of undergraduates to tangibly attend to Earth in its present condition.
Twitter produces the confidence students need to sit down and craft an original, artful, creative piece of written work…in segments of 140 characters or less.
Elizabeth Leet, a doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia and an English lecturer at the Université Paris-Est Créteil, is Phi Beta Kappa’s newest Sibley Fellow.
