Phi Beta Kappa (Beta of Texas, Rice University)

10/29/2021

Making Meaning: Why Humanities Matter, the Federation of State Humanities Council’s first-ever podcast, will launch on Tuesday, November 9, 2021. Making Meaning is part of the Federation’s “Humanities in American Life” initiative, which is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The podcast is hosted by Sydney Boyd, recent PhD graduate of Rice's English department!

This six-episode season is about the role the humanities have played during the pandemic and in our recovery across the greater United States. Each episode balances two interviews: one that tells a story from a public humanities program about a specific topic and another that takes a broad-ranging l...

04/23/2021

Also, congrats to Rice alumni who were inducted into PBK in 2019 who also won NSF-GRFP awards this year! Meghana Gaur, Jennifer Kroeger, and Amy Kuritzky

04/23/2021

Congratulations to Chiraag Kaushik, Alexandros Pollatos, and Frank Yang! These new PBK members also won the prestigious NSF-GRFP fellowship to support their graduate studies! The Rice PBK chapter is very proud of you.

Two dozen current graduate students are among 44 affiliated with Rice to win Graduate Research Fellowships and three years of financial support.

11/19/2020

Happy birthday to the one and only Mickey Mouse! This image was originally drafted by Walt Disney Studios for The American Scholar in 1939.

08/28/2020

This is quite a claim! "...obviously all scientific communication, all technical papers that involve any sort of data or mathematics or modeling or graphs or plots or anything like that, obviously don’t belong on paper. That was just completely obvious in, let’s say, 1990."

Here’s what’s next.

08/25/2020

What would YOU ask a philosopher on a street corner?

They posted up at an entrance to the New York City subway and got hit with some real zingers.

05/05/2020

Rice professor wins Pulitzer Prize! Caleb McDaniel, associate professor of history, was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Sweet Taste of Liberty. The Pulitzer jury called it "[a] masterfully researched meditation on reparations based on the remarkable story of a 19th century woman who survived kidnapping and re-enslavement to sue her captor."

Caleb McDaniel’s 'Sweet Taste of Liberty' tells true story of slavery and restitution in America.

04/17/2020

04/17/2020

04/17/2020

Update on induction ceremony -- with the cancellation of the May commencement, our in-person induction ceremony is officially cancelled as well. During the first week of May, we will email more information, includes slides and videos to celebrate our new members' accomplishments.

04/03/2020

04/03/2020

Well, Rice's commencement has officially been cancelled (sorry, 'delayed indefinitely'). As a result, our chapter will not be holding a f2f induction ceremony this year. Please stay tuned for how we'll celebrate this year's new members.