December 12, 2014

Chapter of Excellence Awards have been bestowed on the following chapters for exceptional chapter activity, innovative programming, and true community leadership during 2013–2014. Nominees were chosen by the regional and constituency directors based on chapter annual reports, and winners were selected by the Committee on Qualifications and Membership.

Alfred University
Cornell University
Northwestern Pennsylvania
Swarthmore College
Woods Hole 
Charleston (Honorable Mention)*
Pace University (Honorable Mention)*

*Chapters that received a Chapter of Excellence Award are not eligible to win an award again for three years. However, many of these chapters continue their meritorious work in subsequent years. The Committee on Qualifications and Membership provides such chapters with an honorable mention.

Chapter Program Awards have been bestowed on the following chapters for organizing and/or hosting a single outstanding program during 2013–2014. Nominees were chosen by the regional and constituency directors based on chapter annual reports, and winners were selected by the Committee on Qualifications and Membership.

Charleston Chapter for Piccolo Darwin Week.
Kansas State University for chapter-sponsored Grants-in-Aid of Research Awards.
Louisiana Tech University for a reactivation luncheon.
University of Colorado for chapter-sponsored Undergraduate Research Awards.

The Top 15 Electing Chapters
The following chapters are recognized for initiating the most new members in 2013–2014:

Photo: The first students from Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi, to join Sigma Xi were inducted in 2014. They join as members of Sigma Xi’s Brown University Chapter. (Submitted photo.)

This article was published in the Sigma Xi Today section of the January-February 2015 issue of American Scientist.