Ron Daniels, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, has been selected to be the 14th president of Johns Hopkins University, according to The Washington Post. In March, he will replace William Brody, who is resigning after a nearly 12-year presidency, according to the Post. Johns Hopkins conducted an international search to fill the vacancy created by Brody's departure, and considered close to 300 candidates, according to the Post. During Daniels' three-year tenure as provost, Penn instituted a four-year community and civic service program and began a $3.5 billion capital campaign, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian. "Johns Hopkins has made a wise choice," Penn President Amy Gutmann said in a statement reported in the Daily Pennsylvanian. Daniels was dean of the faculty of the law school at the University of Toronto until 2005, when he accepted the position at Penn.
Twenty-three members of the Class of 2009 were inducted into the Dartmouth chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa national honor society on Nov. 4, in a ceremony at the home of College President James Wright. The society honors seniors at the College for their cumulative grade point averages through their first three years at Dartmouth. "It's a partial vindication of how I've been doing things for the past three and half years," inductee Yangyang Liu '09 said. Phi Beta Kappa is the nation's oldest academic honor society, and Phi Beta Kappa graduates are encouraged to join local society associations in their communities. "The society at-large does things like sponsor scholarships and engage in political debate and discussion concerning issues to do with education, such as the role of the liberal arts," Lynn Higgins, Dartmouth chapter president and chair of the French and Italian department, said. The Alpha of New Hampshire chapter has been active at Dartmouth since 1787 and annually inducts additional members of the graduating class, honors members of the Dartmouth faculty and a member of the 50th Anniversary Class at a ceremony in the spring. Each year, approximately 10 percent of the graduating class is inducted into the chapter. Three members of the class of 2010 were awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Prize, which recognizes juniors with the highest cumulative grade point average, according to Higgins. "I look at it as more of a recognition of an accomplishment, but you're still expected to uphold a certain standard of intellectual curiosity," inductee Sam Kennedy '09 said.
