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Campus members will be emailed all Chapter event information. Need additional details? Email phibetakappa@du.edu

Be sure also to check the Alpha Association of Colorado site for upcoming regional happenings; or the national Society Events calendar.

Past Chapter Events

2026 New Member Induction and Graduate Celebration (6/11-12)
Chapter meeting (4/30/26) to elect new students
2025 New Member Induction and Graduate Celebration (6/12)
Member social (9/27/24) at the Myhren Gallery, School of Art and Art History
2024 New Member Induction and Graduate Celebration (6/13)
Chapter meeting (4/30/24) to elect new students
Chapter meeting (10/23/23), with reading by member and English Professor Dr Maik Nwosu
Member social (10/6/23): Myhren Gallery exhibit: Gonkar Gyatso: Intimacy and Immediacy
New member induction (9/21/23): abbreviated ceremony for those not able to attend June event
2023 New Member Induction and Graduate Celebration (6/8)
Chapter meeting (5/5/23) including new member election
Member Social (4/21): drop in at Myhren Gallery (Schwayder Art Bldg)
Student Scholar Showcase (3/2)
Chapter Meeting (1/25). Brief, mid-academic year business meeting, followed by talk by member Dr Seth Masket, The 2022 Midterm Elections: Lessons Learned and Paths Forward.
Alpha Association of Colorado 2022 annual meeting (9/17), lunch, and speaker, DU Lamont School of Music Professor of Musicology (and PhiBete), Jack Sheinbaum.
Poems as Pots, Circles, Orbits, and Origins poetry reading & discussion (2/24/22) with DU alumn and CSU creative writing professor, Dr Dan Beachy-Quick.
Chapter meeting (10/21/21) with guest lecture by University Provost and Law faculty, Mary Clark: The 1848 Seneca Falls Convention: “Outgrowing the Compact of our Fathers”
2021 New Member Induction and Graduate Celebration (6/9/21)
2020 New Member Induction and Graduate Celebration (6/11/20)
Chapter meeting, including new member election, 23 April via Zoom.
Student Scholar Showcase (3/2/20)
Chapter meeting (1/28/20), with senior Reanna Magruder and Dr Ashley Hamilton, who shared about their work with the DU Prison Arts Initiative
Chapter meeting (10/30/19)
Member social (10/4/19), at Vicki Myhren Gallery (Schwayder Art Bldg). Preceded by new member initiation (carryover from spring)
2019 New Member Induction and annual Banquet (6/13/19) at Newman Center for the Performing Arts
Faculty roundtable: Contesting Hate: A Critical Response to Christchurch (5/30/2019). Sponsored with the departments of Languages & Literatures, Religious Studies, History, and Political Science; the Office of the Dean (CAHSS); the Center for Middle East Studies; the Center for Judaic Studies; the Center on American Politics; and the Office of Information Technology
Member mixer (4/18/19) at Vicki Myhren Gallery (Schwayder Art Bldg)
Hosted Colorado's CO ΦBK chapter executives meeting (3/9/19)
Student Scholar Showcase (3/8/19)
Member mixer (2/1/19) at Vicki Myhren Gallery
Guest lecture: Freedom of Expression by Frederick M Lawrence, ΦBK Secretary and CEO (5/10/18). Ref American Council on Education 10/31/2018 piece based on same lecture

Our recent Visiting Scholars

Professor Kendra McSweeney (April 2025), Professor of Geography, The Ohio State University. Presented The Drug War & Climate Change: Making the Connections.
Professor Russell Muirhead (January 2024), Dartmouth Professor of Government and New Hampshire state legislator, presented Conspiracy & Democracy.
Professor Ganesh Sitaraman (October 2022), Vanderbilt Law, presented The Future of Supreme Court Reform. Hosted with DU Sturm College of Law, University Libraries, Center on American Politics, University Honors Program.
Dr Forest Rohwer (April 2022), San Diego State University professor of biology. Cosponsored with DU Biological Sciences, University Honors Program, University Libraries, and Geography & the Environment. Video of Dr Rohwer's Creating a Future for Coral Reefs –-and Everyone Else
Dr Evie Shockley (April 2021), Rutgers University English professor. With co-sponsors ΦBK Alpha Association of Colorado and the DU Department of English and Literary Arts. Virtual visit to classes, and offered two poetry readings and discussions.
Dr Richard Alley (November 2019), Penn State, presented on Two-Mile Time Machines: Ice Cores and Abrupt Climate Change. With co-sponsors Biological Sciences, Geography and the Environment, University Libraries, Center for Sustainability, and the Honors Program
Dr Jamsheed Choksy (April 2019), Indiana University, presented on Religious Minorities in Contemporary Iran: The Politics of Tolerance and Intolerance. With co-sponsors Religious Studies and the Center for Middle East Studies.

The national ΦBK Visiting Scholars program enriches the intellectual life of host campuses by offering chapters the opportunity to compete each year for a visit from a panel of twenty of the nation's most distinguished scholars.

The DU chapter has welcomed multiple scholars, each giving a public presentation, visiting classes, holding office hours, and sharing breakfast with student members. Our most recent Visitors include those listed at left.