Phi Beta Kappa Spring 2023 Induction Ceremony

The Alpha of Iowa chapter of Phi Beta Kappa held its Spring 2023 Induction Ceremony virtually on April 23, 2023, at 1:30 pm. Family, friends, and mentors were invited to help celebrate the induction of new members elected in fall 2022 and spring 2023 into our distinguished society. Our guest speaker was Dr. Ted Abel, Director of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute, Roy J. Carver Chair in Neuroscience, and Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Carver College of Medicine. His talk was titled, "It's not a Dream; It's a Memory." New members received their personalized membership certificates and graduation cords at the ceremony.

Upcoming Events and Deadlines

Phi Beta Kappa Key into Public Service Scholarship. Deadline in January each year. To be eligible for the $5,000 scholarship, undergraduate students must attend one of Phi Beta Kappa's 293 chapter campuses, though Phi Beta Kappa membership is not a requirement. More information may be found at https://www.pbk.org/KeyIntoPublicService.

Stevens Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship. Deadline Wednesday, February 14, 2024. The Stevens Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship is awarded each year to a junior in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences majoring in natural science with at least two semesters of work remaining (minimum 75 semester hours earned by the close of the spring 2024 semester). More information may be found at https://clas.uiowa.edu/students/opportunities-students/phi-beta-kappa/stevens-pbk-scholarship.

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars

The Alpha of Iowa Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was pleased to host PBK Visiting Scholar Professor Ricardo Padrón on October 13-14, 2022. He is Professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia. His recently published book, The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West (Chicago 2020), looks at various ways that sixteenth-century Spaniards imagined the New World and Asia as connected spaces. Professor Padrón met with students and held a public lecture titled, “Not Your Grandfather’s Renaissance.” The Alpha of Iowa chapter thanks the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Latin American Studies Program, International Programs, and the Phi Beta Kappa Society for co-sponsoring his visit.

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