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Arts and Sciences Honor Societies BETA BETA BETA Beta Beta Beta, the National Biological Honor Society, is dedicated to improving the understanding of biology and the appreciation of biological research. The society, founded in 1922, now has more than 175,000 lifetime members and over 430 chapters throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. The Rho Phi chapter of the society was installed at Johns Hopkins in 2000, and is open to qualified applicants regardless of major. Beta Beta Beta publishes a journal, BIOS, and holds regular regional and national meetings. For more information, please visit: http://www.tri-beta.org. PHI ALPHA THETA The History Honor Society, Phi Alpha Theta, is one of the most distinguished undergraduate honor societies in the United States. Founded at the University of Arkansas in 1921 and devoted to the promotion of history, it has more than 800 active chapters, including one at Johns Hopkins established last year, and more than 275,000 members. It publishes a highly respectable journal, The Historian, and a quarterly newsletter. For more information, please visit: http://www.phialphatheta.org NEUROSCIENCE Nu Rho Psi—the Johns Hopkins University Undergraduate Society for Neuroscience—draws its founding principles from the Society for Neuroscience, including its “scientific, educational, literary [and] charitable” purposes. The society is a gathering of neuroscience students and faculty devoted to the study of cellular and molecular processes, the biological networks of the nervous system, computational approaches to the mind, and the phenomena of cognition. There is an honors component to the Society whereby a student who excels in all areas of the Society including research, community service, and academics can receive Nu Rho Psi honors, which will be acknowledged at graduation. Engineering Honor Societies TAU BETA PI Tau Beta Pi is the national engineering honor society. Students in the top eighth of the junior class and top fifth of the senior class are eligible for membership. For more information, visit the Engineering Advising Home Page at: http://engineering.jhu.edu/academicaffairs/2_undergrad/
Last modified: July 16, 2008
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