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Pi Kappa Phi alumnus serves as police chief

Pi Kappa Phi alumnus Troy Harris, some 25 years removed from his days as an undergraduate at Purdue University, recently celebrated his first six months as the...

Alpha Phi Alpha brother guides President’s urban policy

WASHINGTON, D C. - Ja’Ron Smith says politicians never showed up in Cleveland’s Lee Harvard neighborhood when he was growing up there, unless it was an election...

Alumnus meets bone marrow recipient

As a first-year student at Elon, Jerome Lewis '10 made a life-saving decision — to register with Be the Match to potentially become a bone marrow donor.  This...

Brothers Launch Fastest-Growing Black-Owned Luxury Hat Brand

Two friends, Archie Clay III and Tajh Crutch, have teamed up to create fashionable fedora hats. Two years ago, they launched Brims and since then, they have been working...

Fraternity honors George Washington Carver with service day

Residents are reviving operations at the Community Service Center of Joplin, and a volunteer fraternity group that visited over the weekend furthered that cause. Members of Phi Beta...

Campus activism led alum to dedicate career to civic engagement

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Brian Mateo is a two-time Penn State graduate who, while on campus, devoted much of his out-of-classroom time to working under the umbrella...

Helping hurricane victims

Daytona, Florida, local organizations including fraternity undergraduate and alumni chapters came together last week to help Bahamian survivors of Hurricane Dorian. The many donated supplies and items...

Detroit millionaire pioneers Twitter charity

Bill Pulte, grandson of the late founder of home-building giant PulteGroup, a company that started in Detroit nearly 70 years ago as Pulte Homes, rose to social media stardom...

‘Little Brother’ Receives Kidney Donation from ‘Big’

CLARION, Pa. – Relationships made in a fraternity can last a lifetime. Sometimes they can even help save a life. In 1973, Michael Klimkos picked Ott Quarles to be his...

Med student saves hiker’s life in national park

Cole Hensley, a Pi Kappa Alpha brother and student in the University of South Dakota’s Sanford School of Medicine, began visiting wild country as a backpacker and...

Delta Sig brother donates kidney, breaks barriers

The day after Delta Sigma Phi brother Barton Lynch lost a major internal organ, he was already up and walking around. On May 29, the 24-year-old went in...

ATO alumnus gives UT Martin largest donation ever

MARTIN - Bill and Rosann Nunnelly believe in the value of education, and a bequest to the University of Tennessee at Martin will assure that future generations...