Officers of the UConn Epsilon Phi Beta Kappa chapter have decided to go forward with electing eligible students and inviting them to join PBK.
Current plans are to invite students who join in spring 2020 to the Spring 2021 induction ceremony on the Storrs campus (note: these plans may shift in coming months–as with everything, we are making adjustments based on the current situation and the plans of the University regarding the opening of campus and the 2020-21 academic year).
The location for the 2020 induction ceremony has been set! The ceremony will take place Sunday, May 3, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. in the Student Union Theatre (main level SU) on the Storrs campus.
More details to come!
Note: elections to Phi Beta Kappa do not take place until the spring – all students elected to PBK will be invited to join in March 2020.
Elections for new UConn chapter Phi Beta Kappa members have concluded. Students who have been elected will be notified by mail and email in coming days and invited to join the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Students who join are will be formally inducted into PBK at the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Initiation Ceremony. The ceremony will take place Saturday, May 4, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. in ITE C80 (lower floor) on the Storrs campus.
Elections for new UConn chapter Phi Beta Kappa members have concluded. Students who have been elected will be notified by mail and email in coming days and invited to join the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Students who join are will be formally inducted into PBK at the 2018 Phi Beta Kappa Initiation Ceremony. The ceremony will take place Sunday, April 29, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. in Laurel Hall, Room 102 (main floor) on the Storrs campus.
We’ve confirmed the details for the 2018 PBK Initiation Ceremony!
The ceremony will take place Sunday, April 29, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. in Laurel Hall, Room 102 (main floor) on the Storrs campus.
Elections for new PBK members are currently underway! Once the election process has concluded, invitations to join PBK will go out. Once elected, students will be invited to formally join Phi Beta Kappa and attend the April ceremony.
The UConn PBK initiation will be Sunday, April 29, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. in the Student Union Theater on the Storrs campus.
Nominations for new PBK members will be voted on by the UConn PBK membership around the middle of the spring semester. Invitations to join PBK will go out by late March. Once elected, students will be invited to formally join Phi Beta Kappa and attend the April ceremony.
New members who have not picked up their Phi Beta Kappa honor cords may do so between 1:00 and 4:00 PM on Friday, May 5, in Rowe 210. This also includes students who joined in a previous year and need a cord for Commencement this weekend.
Thanks once again to Prof. Jennifer Sterling-Folker for taking pictures at the 2016 initiation. Check them out on our Facebook page.
The Epsilon of Connecticut Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will meet on Monday, March 7 from 12:15-1:15 pm in Austin 413. We have some important items on the agenda, including voting for new Chapter members and for officers for 2016-2017. At a minimum, we need a quorum of 10 members to conduct business.
Please send nominations and self-nominations for next year’s officers to Veronica.Makowsky@uconn.edu by noon on Friday, March 4. The officers are President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Historian. Please note that Veronica will not be running for re-election as President. If you have any questions about these offices, please contact Veronica.
We hope to see you there!
4:00-5:30 PM, Thursday, January 28, 2016
Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center
The Epsilon of Connecticut chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will be hosting a public lecture by Visiting Scholar David B. Grusky entitled A Blueprint for Ending Poverty…Permanently. He will contend that we now have enough evidence about the sources and causes of poverty to wage a war against poverty based on science.
David Grusky is the Barbara Kimball Browning Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford, director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality, and coeditor of Pathways Magazine and of Stanford’s Studies in Social Inequality book Series. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, recipient of the Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship (American Sociological Association), founder of the Cornell University Center for the Study of Inequality, and a former Presidential Young Investigator.
His research examines changes in the amount, type, and sources of inequality, including such questions as whether and why gender, racial, and class-based inequalities are growing stronger and how such differences are best measured. His recent books include The Inequality Puzzle, Social Stratification, Occupy the Future, The Inequality Reader, The New Gilded Age, and The Great Recession.
Professor Grusky’s lecture will be followed by a reception in Dodd Lounge.