Phi Beta Kappa (Beta of Texas, Rice University)

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!

Making Meaning Podcast Launches November 9; Trailer Live Today! - Federation of State Humanities Councils 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...

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

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.

‘An unprecedented year’: Record number of Rice grad students awarded NSF fellowships Two dozen current graduate students are among 44 affiliated with Rice to win Graduate Research Fellowships and three years of financial support.

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

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."

The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete Here’s what’s next.

What would YOU ask a philosopher on a street corner?

Three Philosophers Set up a Booth on a Street Corner – Here’s What People Asked They posted up at an entrance to the New York City subway and got hit with some real zingers.

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."

Pulitzer Prize awarded to Rice history professor Caleb McDaniel’s 'Sweet Taste of Liberty' tells true story of slavery and restitution in America.

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.

How to tell sketchy honor societies from legitimate ones

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.