The Gamma Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa participates in the Visiting Scholar program, which brings distinguished scholars in a variety of disciplines to campuses across the nation. Phi Beta Kappa has a long tradition of celebrating excellence in the liberal arts and sciences and of championing freedom of thought, and the Visiting Scholar program is one example of that mission.
Monday, February 26
Chemistry Building 001
4:15pm
Indiana University’s Gamma chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) will welcome Talitha Washington, Director of the Atlanta University Center (AUC) Data Science Initiative and Professor of Mathematics at Clark Atlanta University, to Bloomington from February 26-27, 2024 as part of PBK’s Visiting Scholars program. This program brings distinguished scholars in a variety of disciplines to campuses across the nation, and we are honored to host Dr. Washington as she will speak on “The Mathematics of the Hidden Figures” in which she will uncover the essential ideas created by Katharine Johnson that sent John Glenn into orbit and brought him back safely in a racially segregated era. This public lecture will be on Monday, February 26, at 4:15pm in Chemistry Building 001.
With generous support from Executive Associate Dean Jane McLeod, the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, and the Center for Research on Race & Ethnicity in Society.
The College of Arts