Academic Associations and Honor Societies
Recognition of Honors and Awards 2024
Each year we recognize F&M students who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, leadership, character, and more. See this year's honorees and award winners, plus meet new members of honors societies.
Explore now »The Benjamin Franklin Financial Services Honor Society
Benjamin Rush Pre-Health Honor Society
The Black Pyramid Society
John ¹û¶³APP´«Ã½ Pre-Law Honor Society
The Junto Society
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
Since its founding in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa has celebrated excellence in the liberal arts and sciences and championed freedom of thought. As America’s most prestigious academic honor society, Phi Beta Kappa is uniquely equipped to advocate for the value and benefits of liberal arts and sciences education.
The Phi Beta Kappa Society is the oldest academic honor society in the United States. Five students at the College of William and Mary founded Phi Beta Kappa in 1776, during the American Revolution. For over two and a quarter centuries, the Society has embraced the principles of freedom of inquiry and liberty of thought and expression. Laptops have replaced quill pens, but these ideas, symbolized on Phi Beta Kappa's distinctive gold key, still lay the foundations of personal freedom, scientific inquiry, liberty of conscience and creative endeavor.
Phi Beta Kappa celebrates and advocates excellence in the liberal arts and sciences. Its campus chapters invite for induction the most outstanding arts and sciences students at America's leading colleges and universities. The Society sponsors activities to advance these studies — the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences — in higher education and in society at large.
The F&M Chapter (Theta of PA) identifies candidates whose academic records demonstrate not only excellence but also breadth and depth in the traditional disciplines of the natural sciences, mathematics, social sciences, and humanities.