Dennis Huston to be feted by local Phi Beta Kappa alumni group

The Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Alumni Association of Greater Houston has named Dennis Huston, the Gladys Louise Fox Professor of English at Rice, as its 2016 honoree for Outstanding Contribution to Education. Huston will be honored at the association’s 42nd annual Scholarship Awards Dinner at the Omni Houston Hotel April 20.

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Since coming to Rice in 1969, Huston, a noted Shakespearean scholar, has become one of the university’s best-known faculty members. “Anyone who enters his classroom walks away with an unforgettable experience,” according to the announcement from PBK, America’s oldest and most prestigious honor society.

Huston was named national Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation in 1989 and has won Rice’s George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching four times. In 1990, Houston Metropolitan magazine named him one of the “90 Best Things About Houston.” A Rice video profiled Huston for his unconventional teaching. Huston is the past president of Rice’s Beta of Texas chapter of PBK and has served on the PBK Alumni Association of Greater Houston’s board of directors since 1999.

Rice Board of Trustees Chair Bobby Tudor ’82 is chairing the April event. Huston was faculty master at Hanszen College during Tudor’s undergraduate years there.

For more information about the awards dinner, visit http://pbkhouston.org.