The UNCG chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will induct new members on April 25.

Speaker for the event will be Dr. Matt Cartmill of the Duke University Medical Center. His lecture, titled “Evolution, Creation and Eternity: What’s Wrong with the ‘Creation’ Part of ‘Creation Science,’” will follow the 7 p.m. induction ceremony in the Alumni House. The event is open to the public.

Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest and most honored of all college honorary societies. It was established in 1776 at the College of William and Mary and there are only 270 chapters nationally. UNCG is one of only six institutions in North Carolina to have a chapter. Others are UNC-CH, N.C. State University, Wake Forest University, Davidson College and Duke University.

At the Duke Medical School, Cartmill is a professor in the Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy. He is a noted expert in the field of primate evolution and locomotion. He is author of the book, “A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History,” which received the Howells Award of the American Anthropological Association, and the Marsh Book Award of the American Society for Environmental History. He is co-author of the book, “Human Structure,” past president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and former editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.