List of Graduate Women in Science chapters

Graduate Women in Science, formerly known as Sigma Delta Epsilon, is an international organization for women in science. It was established in 1921 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, United States.

In the following list, active chapters are indicated in bold and inactive chapters are in italics.^[1][2][3]

Chapter	Former chapter name	Charter date	Institution	Location	Status	Reference
Ithaca	Alpha	May 24, 1921 – 1990	Cornell University	Ithaca, New York	Inactive	[3][4]
Madison	Beta	1922	University of Wisconsin–Madison	Madison, Wisconsin	Active	[5][3][a]
	Gamma	1924–1976	University of Illinois	Champaign and Urbana, Illinois	Inactive	[6]
	Delta	1924	University of Missouri	Columbia, Missouri	Inactive
	Epsilon	1925–before 1991	Iowa State University	Ames, Iowa	Inactive
Richmond	Zeta			Richmond, Virginia	Active
Chicago	Eta (see Chi)	1925–before 1968; 2000	University of Chicago	Chicago, Illinois	Active	[7]
	Theta	1927	Ohio State University	Columbus, Ohio	Inactive
	Iota	May 18, 1927	University of Nebraska	Lincoln, Nebraska	Inactive	[8][b]
New York City Metro	Kappa	1928		New York City, New York	Active
	Lambda (First)	1929–before 1970	Northwestern University	Evanston, Illinois	Inactive
Syracuse	Mu	1933–before 1991; xxxx ?	Syracuse University	Syracuse, New York	Active	[9]
Hershey	Kappa Rho	January 1936–xxxx ?; c. 2010	Penn State University College of Medicine	Hershey, Pennsylvania	Active	[10][11][c]
State College	Nu	1936	Pennsylvania State University	State College, Pennsylvania	Active
Twin Cities	Xi	1945	University of Minnesota	Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota	Active	[12]
National Capital	Omicron	1948		Washington, D.C.	Active	[13]
	Pi	January 1949	Purdue University	West Lafayette, Indiana	Inactive	[14]
Philadelphia	Rho	1951–xxxx ?; 2019		Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Active	[15]
Mid-Michigan	Sigma	1954–before 1991; xxxx ?	Michigan State University	East Lansing, Michigan	Active	[16]
	Tau	1959	University of Southern California and Western Arizona	Los Angeles, California	Inactive
	Upsilon	1959	Indiana University Bloomington	Bloomington, Indiana	Inactive
	Phi	1968	University of Kansas	Lawrence, Kansas	Inactive
	Chi (see Eta)	1968	University of Chicago	Chicago, Illinois
Chapter-at-Large	Omega	1968	Chapter-at-Large		Active	[17][3][d]
	Lambda (Second)	1970	California and Southwest United States	California
	Psi	1976	University of Rochester	Rochester, New York	Inactive
	Alpha Alpha			Burlington, Vermont	Inactive	[18]
Research Triangle	Rho Tau	June 20, 2009		Raleigh, North Carolina	Active	[19]
International	Iota Nu	March 10, 2013			Active	[20]
Iowa City	Iota Chi	2014	University of Iowa	Iowa City, Iowa	Active	[21]
Los Angeles		August 16, 2016		Los Angeles, California	Active	[22]
Arizona		November 2018	University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix	Phoenix, Arizona	Active	[23]
Nashville		February 2019		Nashville, Tennessee	Active	[24]
Delaware		2019	University of Delaware	Newark, Delaware	Active	[25]
Rolla		c. 2019	Missouri University of Science and Technology	Rolla, Missouri	Active	[26][27]
West Liberty		c. 2021		West Liberty, West Virginia	Active	[28]
Central Ohio		2023	Ohio State University	Columbus, Ohio	Active	[29][30]
Auburn	Alpha Upsilon		Auburn University	Auburn, Alabama	Active
Boston	Alpha Omega			Boston, Massachusetts	Active
Austin				Austin, Texas	Active	[31]
Black Hills			South Dakota School of Mines and Technology	Rapid City, South Dakota	Active	[32]
Central Kentucky				Kentucky	Active
Dallas				Dallas, Texas	Active
Eastern North Carolina	Epsilon Chi			Greenville, North Carolina	Active	[33][34]
Eastern South Dakota	Sigma Delta			Sioux Falls, South Dakota	Active	[35]
Grand Forks				Grand Forks, North Dakota	Active
Greater Maryland				Maryland	Active
Hattiesburg				Hattiesburg, Mississippi	Active
Hawaii				Honolulu, Hawaii	Active	[36]
Milwaukee				Milwaukee, Wisconsin	Active
Missoula				Missoula, Montana	Active
New York Capital				Albany, New York	Active
Northern Colorado	Sigma Omega Delta		Colorado State University	Fort Collins, Colorado	Active	[37]
Orange County				Orange County, California	Inactive
Pittsburgh				Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	Active
Puerto Rico				Puerto Rico	Active
St. Louis				St. Louis, Missouri	Active	[38]
San Diego				San Diego, California	Inactive
Tuscaloosa				Tuscaloosa, Alabama	Active

See also

• List of Graduate Women in Science members

Notes

1. Chapter formed from a pre-existing local oranization.
2. Chapter formed from the Graduate Women's Scientific Club (local).
3. Chapter formed from the Women's Scientific Club, a local honorary group established in 1933.
4. Chapter consists of American and international members who do not live near one of the active local chapters.