The 2019 initiation ceremony for new members took place on Monday, April 15 at 7:00 pm in the Weatherspoon Art Museum Auditorium. The guest speaker was Dr. Stan Meiburg, Director of Graduate Programs in Sustainability at Wake Forest University. The title of his address was "Wisdom and the Sustainable Life." The program was followed by a reception.
Spring General Membership Meeting on Wednesday, February 27 4:00 - 5:00 pm in MHRA.
Fall General Membership Meeting on November 29, at 4 pm in the Faculty Center.
Awarded the Certificate of Recognition at the 45th PBK Triennial Council August 2-4, 2018 for excellence in representing the ideals and commitments of Phi Beta Kappa during the 2015-2018 triennium as an outstanding Public University Chapter.
The Spring General Membership Meeting was Thursday, March 1. We had snacks and a wine tasting by PBK member Dr. John Nowlin.
Congratulations to Andrew G. McBride our 2018 Hege Award winner!
The 2018 initiation ceremony was April 11 with Dr. Ronald Crutcher, president of the University of Richmond, delivering the keynote address entitled "From the Nest Egg to the Frying Pan: Beethoven and the Schuppanzigh Quartet."
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Dr. Price Fishback visited March 15-16, 2018. Dr. Fishback (the Thomas R. Brown Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona) gave a public lecture entitled "WAR! What is it good for?” on Thursday, March 15, at 5:30 pm in the School of Education Building.
The Fall 2017 General Membership Meeting was 5 pm on Tuesday, November 14 in MHRA.
Congratulations to
Karen Boger, Alexander Nelson, Jordan Peitz, and Uyeong Yang our 2017 Hege Award winners!
The initiation ceremony was on Monday, April 17 in the Weatherspoon auditorium starting at 7pm. The keynote speaker was Dr. Tom Mould, Professor of Anthropology and Folklore at Elon University. The title of his talk was "Dangerous Stories".
The drop-In Luncheon for Students-Elect and all PBK Members was held in The Parlor, North Spencer on Thursday April 13, 2017, 11:30am-1pm.
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Dr. Patricia Wright, Primatologist and Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University, was on campus on April 10 and 11. She is the founder of Centre ValBio research station at Ranomafana National Park, where work is done to protect Madagascar’s unique and biologically diverse ecosystems. She has made major contributions in the biology, ecology, conservation and behavior of living primates, especially the Malagasy lemurs.
In 2014 she was awarded the Indianapolis Prize, the world’s leading award for animal conservation. A member of the American Philosophical Society, she has received a MacArthur fellowship, the Hauptman-Woodward Pioneers of Science Award, and the Distinguished Primatologist Award of the American Society of Primatologists. Her books include Madagascar: Forests of Our Ancestors; High Moon over the Amazon: My Quest to Understand the Monkeys of the Night; and For the Love of Lemurs: My Life in the Wilds of Madagascar. The 3D IMAX film, Island of Lemurs: Madagascar, features her work.
The next General Membership meeting was 12-1pm on Tuesday, March 7 in the EUC White Oak Room. There was pizza!
Phi Beta Kappa co-sponsored a program called "The Liberal Arts Advantage: Launching from Campus to Career" on March 3. More information is available at https://hnac.uncg.edu/laa.
Fall general membership meeting, November 8, 2016, 4:00-5:00pm, Faculty Center
Congratulations to
Zachary Blizard, Andrew Byrum, and Brooke Hathaway our 2016 Hege Award winners!
Initiation Ceremony: Wednesday, April 13, 7:00 in the Auditorium of the Weatherspoon Art Museum. A reception will follow to honor new initiates. Guest speaker will be Dr. Timothy D. Johnston, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa, UNCG’s Epsilon Chapter of North Carolina. The topic of his speech will be “Why Books?”
Luncheon for New Initiates: Thursday, April 7 11:30-1:00 in “The Parlor”, 130 North Spencer Residence Hall.
General Membership Meeting, March 1, 2016, 3:30, Joyner Room, EUC
Fall general membership meeting, Monday, November 16th, 4:00 - 5:00 pm, in UNCG Faculty Center.
Congratulations to Veronica Allen and Rachel Jodrey our 2014 Hege Award winners!
Initiation Ceremony and Reception for Initiates, was held on April 15, 2014 in the Weatherspoon Art Museum with guest speaker Charles Barzun, Professor of Law
University of Virginia School of Law. His talk was entitled "A Letter to My Grandfather".
Drop-In Luncheon for Students-Elect and all PBK Members was held in The Parlor, North Spencer on April 10, 2014.
General Membership Meeting, was held in Birch Room, EUC on March 4, 2014.
The Fall 2013 general membership meeting was held November 11, 2013 in the Birch Room in the EUC.
Congratulations to Francisco Martinez-Oronoz our 2013 Hege Award winner!
Initiation Ceremony April 9, 2013 at 7pm in the School of Education Room 120 featuring Ed Kitchen (Vice President & COO and Board Member of the Joseph M. Bryan Foundation, Chairman of the Board of Directors for Gateway University Research Park). His talk is entitled "The Uneducated Debate over the Value of a Liberal Arts Education".
Luncheon for new initiates Tues. Apr. 2 11:30am-1pm in the parlor of N. Spencer.
Epsilon chapter meeting Wed. Feb. 27 at 1pm in the EUC Joyner Room.
The Fall 2012 general membership meeting was Wednesday, November 7 at 10am in the EUC Joyner Room.
Congratulations to Jessica Dormady our 2012 Hege Award winner!
Initiation Ceremony, April 10, 2012 7:00 pm, Auditorium of the Weatherspoon Art Museum featuring Dr. Joseph Soares
Associate Professor of Sociology at Wake Forest University on "Meritocracy and Its Discontents"
Luncheon for Students Elected to PBK Membership April 3, 2012 11:30-1:00, at 130 North Spencer, The Parlor.
Our general membership meeting was on Monday, February 27, 2012 from 9am to 10am in Moore HRA, Room 1607.
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar John E. Straub, who is Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry at Boston University, gave a public lecture "A Lively Tour of the Periodic Table" Thursday, February 16, 7:30 PM in Room 201 Sullivan Science Building, UNCG, and a departmental seminar "When Protein Folding Goes Wrong: Probing the Molecular Origins of Amyloid Disease" Friday, February 17, 1:00 PM Room 201 Sullivan Science Building, UNCG.
The Fall General Membership Meeting was on Monday, Nov. 14, 2011 at 12 noon in MHRA 2711.
Congratulations to Sonia Parsons Haga our 2011 Hege Award winner!
Annual initiation ceremony: Tuesday, April 12, 2011at 7:00 p.m. in the Weatherspoon. The speaker was Dr. Benjamin Filene, UNCG Director of Public History.
Luncheon with new initiates April 5, 2011
Spring General Membership meeting: on Monday, February 28th from 3:30-5:00 p.m. in the Azalea Room of Elliott University Center.
Congratulations to inductee Sofia Aidemark! Here's a quote from a press release about her accomplishments:
"Whether with a nine iron or a laptop, UNCG's first international student to be Phi Beta Kappa made her mark...The student from Sweden wasn't so fluent in English. Then she stepped up her game and, sporting a 3.97 GPA three years later, became UNCG's first student assisted by the International Programs Office to be Phi Beta Kappa."
Fall General Membership meeting: Wednesday, November 10, at 4 p.m. in the Joyner Room EUC.
Our 2010 Hege Award winner was Ashley Churchill Young.
Annual initiation ceremony: Tuesday, April 20, 2010, at 7 p.m. in the Weatherspoon Auditorium. The speaker was Dr. Andrew C. Brod, Director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at UNCG's Bryan School of Business and Economics.
Drop-In Luncheon for New Initiates and Phi Beta Kappa Members, April 6, 2010 11:30-1:00 at the Faculty Center.
General Membership Meeting, Wednesday, March 3, 2010 3:30-5:00 in the Joyner Room of the EUC.
We hosted Dr. Lisa Pratt as a PBK visiting Scholar October 14-16, 2009. Dr. Pratt is Provost Professor of Geological Sciences at Indiana University, Director of a NASA Astrobiology Institute Team, and Chair of the NASA Science Advisory Group developing a 2018 mission concept for the next generation Mars Rover. The following events were included:
Tues. 10/6, 7:30 pm: “Life in the Solar System,” Dr. Steve Danford, at the “Science on Tap Series” at the Green Bean, 321 S. Elm St., Greensboro
Wed. 10/14, 4:00-6:30 p.m.: Showing and discussion of the film, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," in McIver 028.
Thurs. 10/15: 8:00 PBK breakfast with Dr. Pratt. RSVP to Steve Danford.
Thurs. 10/15: Noon. Lunch with Geography Club and Physics Students. “Radiolysis & Microbial Life” in Petty 308.
Thurs. 10/15 at 2:30 p.m.: Related Lecture "Permafrost and Methane Clathrates on Earth and Mars." in Graham 116.
Our 2008 Hege Award winner was Larissa Jocelyn Mañón.
Annual initiation ceremony: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at the Weatherspoon Auditorium. Carl Ernst, the William Kenan Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, spoke about "The West and Islam? Rethinking Orientalism and Occidentalism"
Our 2006 Hege Award winner was Hannah Aileen Burnette.
The Phi Beta Kappa Couper Scholars Lecture was Tuesday, April 4, 2006, in the Annie Merner Pfeiffer Chapel at Bennett College for Women. The speaker was Dr. Joyce Appleby, Professor Emerita of History at UCLA speaking on the topic “Coming to Terms with Thomas Jefferson.”
Annual initiation ceremony: April 20, 2006 in the Brown Building Theater. Dr. Peggy O’Brien, an educational programming innovator with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, spoke about "True Intelligence"
Our 2004 Hege Award winner was Natalie Olden-Stahl.
Earlier information
Earlier Hege Award winners were James Wayne Davis (1994), Stephen Michael Ackley-Ortiz (1996), Monica Chew (1997), Christopher John Deloye (1998), Scott Thomason (1999), Catherine Revell (2000), Katherine McCarthy (2001), Toni Nichols (2001), Jeremiah A. Feducia (2002), Katherine Collings (2003), and Alison E. Saulsbury (2003).
