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Graduate Women in Science formerly known as Sigma Delta Epsilon, is an international organization for women in science.[1] It was established in 1921 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, United States as a women's fraternity.[1] Following are some of its notable members.

Name Chapter and year Notability References
Ruth M. Addoms Botanist at Duke University [2]
Beulah Armstrong Gamma, 1924 Mathematician and professor at the University of Illinois [3]
Carrie Adeline Barbour Assistant professor and assistant curator of paleontology at the University of Nebraska State Museum [4]
Raven Baxter Honorary, 2016 Science communicator and STEM educator [5]
Helen Calkins Mathematician and professor at the Pennsylvania College for Women
Margery C. Carlson Botanist and professor at Northwestern University [6]
Martha E. Church Geographer and the first female president of Hood College [7]
Teresa Cohen Mathematician and professor at Pennsylvania State University [3]
Nancy Cole Mathematician who contributed to Morse theory [3]
Kizzmekia Corbett Honorary, 2016 Assistant professor of immunology and infectious diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health [5]
Ethaline Hartge Cortelyou Chemist and scientific technical writer who worked on the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory
Rajammal P. Devadas Nutritionist and a former chancellor of Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women
Martha Doan Honorary, 1951 Chemist and dean of women at Earlham College and Iowa Wesleyan College. [6][8]
Bernice Durand Physicist, professor, and vice provost at the University of Wisconsin–Madison [9]
Helen Dyer Biochemist and cancer researcher
Sophia Eckerson Honorary, 1941 Botanist, microchemist, and department chair at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
Alice Catherine Evans Honorary, 1931 Senior bacteriologist at the National Institutes of Health [6]
Aline Huke Frink Nu, 1936 Mathematician and professor at Pennsylvania State University [10][3]
Adele Gerard Lewis Grant Alpha, 1921 Botanist who taught at the Missouri Botanical Garden, Cornell University.the Huguenot Faculty in Wellington, South Africa, and the University of California, Los Angeles [11]
Lois Wilfred Griffiths Mathematician and professor for 37 years at Northwestern University [3]
Beatrice Hagen Mathematician and professor at Pennsylvania State University [3]
Laura Hare Medical doctor, naturalist, and conservationist [6][12][13][14][15][16]
Mary Gertrude Haseman Mathematician known for her work in knot theory [3]
Edith Haynes Professor of microbiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine [17][6]
Nola Anderson Haynes Mathematician and professor at the University of Missouri [3]
Olive Hazlett Mathematician and researcher at the University of Illinois [3]
Anna Henriques Mathematician with the Institute for Advanced Study [3]
Marie Agnes Hinrichs Physiologist, zoologist, and professor at the University of Chicago, Southern Illinois University, and the University of Illinois
Ariel Hollinshead Cancer researcher and professor who spent her career at George Washington University [18]
Elizabeth E. Hood Honorary, 2016 Plant geneticist and professor of agriculture at Arkansas State University [5]
Hope E. Hopps Microbiologist and immunologist with the Food and Drug Administration [19]
Barbara Iglewski Professor of microbiology and immunology director of international programs at the University of Rochester Medical Center
Roberta Frances Johnson Mathematician and professor at Wilson College, Colorado State University, and the University of Colorado [3]
Vivian Annabelle Johnson Physicist and professor at Purdue University [20]
Lois Lampe Botanist and assistant professor at Ohio State University [21]
Mary Landers Mathematician who taught at Hunter College [3]
Jean Langenheim Honorary, 2012 Plant ecologist and ethnobotanist [22]
Mayme Logsdon Mathematician and professor at the University of Chicago [3]
Madge Macklin Physician is known for her work in the field of medical genetics
Lynne E. Maquat Professor of biochemistry, biophysics, pediatrics, and oncology at the University of Rochester Medical Center
Eula Davis McEwan Geologist and paleontologist who taught at the University of Nebraska [4]
Nell I. Mondy Honorary, 1986 Biochemist and faculty of Cornell University
Ethel Isabel Moody Mathematician and professor at Pennsylvania State University [3]
Dorothy Virginia Nightingale Organic chemist and professor at the University of Missouri [23]
Yan Ning Honorary, 2016 Structural biologist and professor at Tsinghua University and Princeton University [5]
Helen Brewster Owens Mathematician, assistant professor at Penn State University, and suffragist [3]
Katherine Van Winkle Palmer Tertiary paleontologist and director of the Paleontological Research Institution [6]
Sophy Parfin Entomologist with the National Museum of Natural History [24]
Edith Marion Patch 1940 Entomologist and head of the entomology department at the University of Maine
Jeannette Piccard Honorary, 1971 High-altitude balloonist
Dorothy Powelson Microbiologist and associate professor at Purdue University [25]
Jessie Isabelle Price Veterinary microbiologist at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center [26]
Johnnie Hines Watts Prothro Nutritionist and chair of the Department of home economics and Food Administration at Tuskegee University [27]
Adrienne Sophie Rayl Mathematician and University of Alabama Extension Center (now the University of Alabama at Birmingham) [3]
Elizabeth Wagner Reed Geneticist and one of the first scientists to work on Drosophila speciation
Nina Roscher Honorary, 1982 Professor and chair of the chemistry department at American University
Ruth Stokes Mathematician, cryptologist, and astronomer [3]
Ernestine Hogan Basham Thurman Entomologist and researcher, focusing on mosquitoes and vector control
Evelyn Butler Tilden Microbiologist at the National Institutes of Health and Northwestern University Dental School [28]
Roxana Vivian Mathematics professor [3]
Evelyn J. Weber Biochemist, agronomist, and faculty of the Agronomy Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign [29]
Marion Webster Biochemist who was the first to isolate the Vi antigen of typhoid [30]
Elizabeth Weisburger Chemist with the National Cancer Institute [31]
Marie Johanna Weiss Mathematician, university professor, and textbook author [3]
Cynthia Westcott
Frances Wick
Evelyn Prescott Wiggin
Joni Wallis Honorary, 2016 [5]
Emily Kathryn Wyant [3]

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References

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  2. ^ "Large Tea Given Today by Sigma Delta Epsilon". Wisconsin State Journal. Madison, Wisconsin. 1930-07-25. p. 9. Retrieved 2024-09-16 – via Newspapers.com.
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  5. ^ a b c d e "Meet our GWIS Honorary Membership Award Recipients". Graduate Women in Science. 2016. Retrieved September 15, 2024.
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  10. ^ "Local Scientific Club Joins National Group". Penn State Collegian. January 24, 1936. Retrieved September 15, 2024 – via Newspaper Archive.
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  12. ^ "About Dr. Laura Hare". Hare Trust. Retrieved 2024-09-15.
  13. ^ "The Laura Hare Nature Preserve at Downey Hill". Sycamore Land Trust. Retrieved 2024-09-15.
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  17. ^ "Edith Haynes: University Honors and Awards: Indiana University". University Honors & Awards. Retrieved 2024-09-15.
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  19. ^ "Hope E. Hopps Dies at 62". Washington Post. November 11, 1988. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  20. ^ “Related to the Association as a Whole. Society of the Sigam Xi, American Nature Study Society, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Gamma Alpha Graduate Scientific Fratering, Gamma Alpha Graduate Scientific Fraternity, Sigma Delta Epsilon Graduate Women's Scientific Fraternity." Science, vol. 75,1936 (1932): 171-2. doi:10.1126/science.75.1936.171.
  21. ^ Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (2003-12-16). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Routledge. ISBN 9781135963439.
  22. ^ Stephens, Tim. "Plant scientist Jean Langenheim honored by Graduate Women in Science". UC Santa Cruz News. Retrieved 2024-09-16.
  23. ^ Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie; Joy Dorothy Harvey (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. Taylor & Francis. p. 944. ISBN 9780415920384. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  24. ^ Gurney, Ashley B., and Luella M. Walkley. "Sophy I. Parfin (1918-1966)" Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 69(2)(June 1967): 190-192. via Internet Archive
  25. ^ "Dorothy M Powelson". Journal and Courier. Lafayette, Indiana. 1988-11-03. p. 32. Retrieved 2024-09-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. ^ Warren, Wini (1999). Black women scientists in the United States. Bloomington, Ind. [u.a.]: Indiana University Press. pp. 237–241. ISBN 978-0253336033 – via Internet Archive.
  27. ^ Brown, Jeannette E. (2012). African American women chemists. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 42–46. ISBN 9780199742882. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
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  30. ^ "Early Women Scientists of NIH, Part 1". NIH Intramural Research Program. Retrieved 2024-09-16.
  31. ^ Grinstein, Louise; Rose, Rose; Rafailovich, Miriam (1993). Women in Chemistry and Physics: A Bibliographic Sourcebook. Greenwood Press. pp. 581–585.
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