Founded 1986 Emphasis Respiratory care Chapters 100+ | Type Honor Society Motto life and breath | |
Mission statement To promote, recognize and honor scholarship, scholarly achievement, service, and character of respiratory students. | ||
Lambda Beta Society (ΛΒ) is a national honor society sponsored and maintained by the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC). It is an honor society specifically recognizing undergraduate achievement in Respiratory Care related colleges. Lambda Beta Society was formed in 1986 and has over 100 chapters in the United States as of 2011. Membership requires the undergraduate student to be a student of respiratory care and be in the top 25 percentile of their class.
Etymology
The name was chosen to represent sustaining “life and breath”. Lambda (Λ) is the Greek letter “L”, and beta (Β) is the Greek letter “B”.
References
Lambda Beta Society Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA