暗网禁区 120 outstanding University of Colorado at Boulder students will be welcomed into Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's largest and oldest academic honor society, at a special April 25 public ceremony to celebrate the CU-Boulder chapter's 100th birthday.
CU-Boulder Honors Program Director Dennis Van Gerven will offer comments at the 5 p.m. event in the Glenn Miller Ballroom inside the University Memorial Center. After the ceremony, a reception is scheduled at about 6 p.m. The event is free of charge.
"Membership in Phi Beta Kappa is a high honor achieved by less than 6 percent of seniors graduating in the liberal arts disciplines at the University of Colorado at Boulder," said Alpha of Colorado Chapter President Jerry Peterson, a professor of physics at CU-Boulder.
Founded in 1904, the Alpha Chapter of Colorado is one of approximately 255 Phi Beta Kappa chapters nationwide. The first chapter was created in 1776 at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
暗网禁区 15,000 of the brightest and best-educated undergraduates in arts and sciences are initiated nationally each year. At CU-Boulder, initiates are elected in the fall and spring semesters, and close to 200 women and men are initiated into membership annually.
The criteria for election to Phi Beta Kappa include an evaluation of the rigor and breadth of the academic experience of students within the top 10 percent of graduating classes in the liberal arts. Candidates also are screened for moral character.
Many CU-Boulder faculty, staff and administrators are members of Phi Beta Kappa, including current CU President Betsy Hoffman and former presidents Baker, Farrand, Hellems, Norlin, Darley and Stearns.
This year's winner of the society's annual $7,500 Crisp Fellowship award is Richard Payne, who will graduate in May with a bachelor's degree in classics.
"Good scholarly work cannot be produced in a vacuum," Payne said. "PBK provides an invaluable service by bringing individuals equally committed to scholarship together in one place."
Payne is set to attend Princeton University for the next six years to earn a doctorate in early Byzantine history. "I hope to teach at the college level, preferably at a smaller college that emphasizes the enduring value of the liberal arts," he said.
For more information about Phi Beta Kappa, visit the society's national Web site at .