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USA TODAY showcased three ������Ƶ students on April 13 in photographs that accompanied a special section, “Sharing in the USA,” which reported on American volunteerism in the wake of several natural disasters.

The nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic honor society installed its newest chapter Tuesday during ������Ƶ’s Convocation for Honors, where faculty and staff members of Phi Beta Kappa were charged with upholding the society’s values by committing themselves to intellectual freedom, the pursuit of knowledge and the ideal of excellence in scholarship in the liberal arts and sciences.

Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof will headline a daylong celebration of the liberal arts and sciences on April 13 when ������Ƶ installs its chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society during Convocation for Honors in Alumni Gym.

������Ƶ marks an important milestone on April 13 during Convocation for Honors when the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic honors society, installs a chapter at the university

Preparations are underway for Convocation for Honors, scheduled for April 13. Students taking part in the ceremony are asked to pick up their academic regalia at the Campus Shop inside the Moseley Center before Tuesday afternoon.

The air was filled with beeping, digging, scraping and laughter Saturday when the Old North State Detectorists, a group of metal detector enthusiasts, searched for artifacts buried on the grounds of an historic schoolhouse ������Ƶ plans to restore after a local family gifted it to the university last year.

������Ƶ President Leo M. Lambert dedicated Phi Beta Kappa Commons in the Academic Village on Tuesday during a special College Coffee. Lambert called the morning ceremony on the brick plaza “a tribute to the university’s dedication to the arts and sciences.” The university will install a chapter of the nation’s oldest academic society today at Convocation for Honors.

One by one, the names were read aloud, a remembrance – and a prayer – to victims of the Holocaust who in many cases left no record they ever lived. The “Reading of the Names” event organized by ������Ƶ Hillel and the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life on Monday gave the community a moment to reflect on a genocide seven decades ago that took the lives of 6 million people.

������Ƶ junior Molly Schriber has been named a recipient of a 2010 Udall Scholarship, an award dedicated in part for students pursuing careers related to the environment. It is the second time since 2008 that an ������Ƶ student has received the prestigious national award.