The Scholarship awardees for 2011 are:

• Noël Bakhtian, Stanford, Aeronautics and Astronautics (Reed Scholarship)
• Maya de Vries, UC Berkeley, Integrative Biology
• Jenny Lane, UC Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences
• Michael Levien, UC Berkeley, Sociology
• Feng-Yen Li, UC San Francisco, Biomedical Sciences (MD/PhD)
• Shane Morrison, Stanford, Medicine
• Wei-chun Wang, UC Davis, Psychology
• Chelsea Wood, Stanford, Biology
  

The Teaching Excellence awardees for 2011 are:

• Robin Einhorn, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
• Ramona Naddaff, Rhetoric Department, University of California, Berkeley
• Kim Magowan, English Literature, Mills College, Oakland
• Teresa E. Steele, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
• Darren Zook*, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
  *Recipient of a 2006 Teaching Excellence award also

The awards were presented on May 1, 2011 in the collegial setting of the UC Berkeley Faculty Club at our Annual Dinner. On this occasion we celebrated our primary mission: providing scholarships and teaching awards to deserving scholars and professors to recognize and enhance their educational and research activities. See the newsletter here

We have many interesting tours, about one per month, for our members. Check the newsletter for the latest. And click on the pictures at the left for some of the past events.

Currently, we have scheduled the following events. See the newsletter for details

For those who attended The Farm on Aug 27 (and anyone else), we have the recipe for the Peppered Walnuts here

• January 25, 2012 - Visit California Vegetable Specialties in Rio Vista to learn all about endive
• February 17-20, 2012 - Asilomar Conference
• March 20, 2012 - San Francisco Palace Hotel—Historic Tour - Sold Out
• May 6, 2012 - Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner
• October 14 - 23, 2012 – Walking the Pilgrim’s Trail (Camino) to Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  

Respectfully submitted , First Vice President - Programs

William Anderegg, 2010 scholarship recipient and speaker at the 2011 Asilomar conference. Read the letter and more about his research here.

Robert Pringle, 2007 scholarship recipient. Read the letter. Also see a San Francisco Chronicle article about his work.

John Randolph, 1997 scholarship recipient. Read the letter

Rolf Beier and Florence Beier - Dedicated peace activists, they are members of the Beyond War movement, and also participated in an Israel and Palestinian peace group. Rolf was a German soldier, and Florence is Jewish. Louise Rafkin, Special to The Chronicle
Sunday, February 27, 2011. Read more...

Janiece Nolan, Ph.D. received the Distinguished Leadership Award and has been named to the Contra Costa Commission for Women's Ninth Annual Hall of Fame. Read more...

Eno Schmidt has received the Cupertino CREST Award. Read more...

Are You a Young Phi Bete?

The Northern California Association has a group of young Phi Betes with our own email list, activities, networking, etc.

What constitutes a "Young Phi Bete"? Traditionally for organizations, the cut-off age for "younger" members is 40. But as far as we are concerned, that is not a hard and fast rule, and especially if you want to be in charge of some event, you qualify.

Please check out the Young Phi Bete page to see if anything is happening for those of us who don't remember when phones had wires!

Association Honored by the National Society

Our Association received a significant honor at the concluding banquet of the Triennial in Seattle Aug. 6-10, 2003. The award included a check for $1000 that we may use for either our endowment or scholarship fund. We also received the certificate pictured at the left. Click on the image to see an enlarged view.

The wording on the Certificate of Recognition is:

(Signed by Joseph W. Gordon, President and John Churchill, Secretary)