The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an academic honor society with chapters on more than 250 campuses across the United States. The Beta of Rhode Island chapter is based at the University of Rhode Island.

Requirements for membership

Chapter news

• A public forum on the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics, featuring talks by Prof. Bret Anderson and Prof. Liam Malloy, will be held Nov. 2, 4:00-5:00 pm, 101 Gilbreth Hall, 2 East Alumni Ave., Kingston.
• The chapter's most recent initiation meeting—held on April 29, 2011—was addressed by Dr. Donald H. DeHayes, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, and by Dr. Navindra Seeram, Professor of Pharmacognosy.
• A public lecture on "Paradise Lost in Our Time" was given by Dr. Paul Alpers on April 14, 2011. Dr. Alpers is Class of 1942 Professor of English Emeritus at the University of California (Berkeley) and Professor-In-Residence at Smith College.
• A public forum on the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics, featuring a talk by Dr. Simona Trandafir, was held on Nov. 22, 2010.

Officers for 2011–2012

• President: Rebecca Brown, Department of Plant Sciences
  
• Historian: Timothy George, Department of History
  
• Secretary: Karen Stein, Department of English
  
• Treasurer: Travis D. Williams, Department of English
  
• Past President: Laura Meyerson, Department of Natural Resources Science