The Teaching Excellence awardees for 2010 are:

• Judith L. Bishop, Department of  Women’s Studies and Religion, Mills College
  
• Kristin Lagatutta, Psychology Department, University of California, Davis
  
• Richard Muller, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
  
• Patrick Y. Chuang, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz

The Scholarship awardees for 2010 are:

• Shah Ali, Stanford, Medicine
• Chantal Frankenbach, UC Davis, Music
• Harold (Hal) Haggard, UC Berkeley, Physics
• William Love Anderegg, Stanford, Biology
• Alexis Peri, UC Berkeley, History
• Margaret (Maggie) Peters, Stanford, Political Science
• Lilliana Radoshevich, UCSF, Biomedical Sciences, Reed Scholarship
• Johnny Tam, UCSF (& UCB), Bioengineering
  

The awards were presented on May 2, 2010 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

Upcoming Activities

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.

• Walt Disney Family Museum – Wednesday, August 18, 2010
• Rosie the Riveter & WWII Home Front National Historical Park – Thursday, September 16, 2010
• Chocolate Fest! Saturday – October 9, 2010
• Customized Wine Tasting Event at Thomas Fogarty Winery — Saturday, November 6, 2010
• Holiday Tour of Dunsmuir Mansion, Oakland – Saturday, December 4, 2010
  

Respectfully submitted , First Vice President - Programs

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

Janiece Nolan, Chapter Liaison, participated as NCA’s delegate, sponsored by the national PBK office. She also had the honor of being selected as one of 17 nominees for 11 senator at large vacancies.

Can you imagine almost three hundred members of Phi Beta Kappa from across the country gathered into one room, over three days, to discuss various issues of importance to our Society? Such meetings took place October 1-4, 2009 in Austin, Texas. It was Phi Beta Kappa’s 42nd Triennial Council.

Read Janiece's full report here

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)