Sigma Xi Presidents

Current President

  • Kathy Lu, University of Alabama at Birmingham 

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President-elect

  • Daniel Rubenstein, Princeton University

Past Presidents

  • Marija Strojnik, Optical Research Institute (Centro de Investigacionesen Optica), 2023-2024

  • Nicholas A. Peppas, University of Texas at Austin, 2022-2023

  • Robert T. Pennock, Michigan State University, 2021-2022

  • Sonya T. Smith, Howard University, 2020-2021

  • Geraldine "Geri" Richmond, University of Oregon, 2019-2020

  • Joel Primack, University of California - Santa Cruz, 2018-2019

  • Stuart L. Cooper, Ohio State University, 2017-2018

  • Tee L. Guidotti, International Consultant, 2016-2017

  • Mark E. Peeples, Ohio State University, 2015-2016

  • George H. Atkinson, Institute on Science for Global Policy, 2014-2015 

  • Linda Meadows, Ohio State University, 2013-2014 

  • Kelly Sullivan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2012-2013

  • Michael Crosby, Mote Marine Laboratory, 2011-2012

  • Joseph A. Whittaker, Morgan State University, 2010-2011

  • Howard Ceri, University of Calgary, 2009-2010

  • Ann H. Williams, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2008-2009

  • James W. Porter, University of Georgia, 2007-2008

  • James F. Baur, University of Florida, 2006-2007

  • Lynn Margulis, University of California-Berkeley, 2005-2006

  • Francisco Ayala, Columbia University, 2004-2005

  • Peter H. Raven, University of California - Berkeley, 2003-2004

  • W. Franklin Gilmore,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002-2003

  • Marye Anne Fox, University of Texas, Austin, 2001-2002

  • John H. Gibbons (Jack), Duke University, 2000-2001

  • Peggie J. Hollingsworth, University of Michigan, 1999-2000

  • John H. Moore, Membership-at-Large, 1998-99

  • Robert A. Frosch, Columbia University, 1996-98

  • Frederick Robbins, Case Western Reserve, 1995-96

  • Kumar Patel, Stanford University, 1993-95

  • Neal F. Lane, University of Oklahoma, 1993

  • George Bugliarello, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992-93

  • Rita R. Colwell, University of Washington, 1991-92

  • Fredrick H. Shair, University of California - Berkeley, 1990-91

  • M. Patricia Morse, University of New Hampshire, 1989-90

  • Thomas F. Malone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988-89

  • Klaus D. Timmerhaus, Illinois, 1987-88

  • F. Kenneth Hare, McGill, 1986-87

  • Lewis M. Branscomb, Duke University, 1985-86

  • M. Patricia Faber, Michigan State, 1984-85

  • John W. Prados, University of Tennessee, 1983-84

  • V. Elving Anderson, Minnesota, 1982-83

  • William A. Nierenberg, Columbia University, 1981-82

  • Herbert E. Longenecker, Pennsylvania State University, 1980-81

  • Melvin Kranzberg, Case Western Reserve, 1979-80

  • Dean E. McFeron, University of Illinois, 1978

  • Harold G. Cassidy, Yale University, 1977

  • Lawrence M. Kushner, Princeton University, 1976

  • Frederick E. Terman, Stanford University, 1975

  • Linton E. Grinter, University of Illinois, 1974

  • Harvey A. Neville, University of Illinois, 1973

  • Frank C. Croxton, Ohio State University, 1971-72

  • Frederick C. Lindvall, California Institute of Technology, 1969-70

  • Caryl P. Haskins, Harvard University, 1967-68

  • Farrington Daniels, University of Minnesota, 1965-66

  • Frederick D. Rossini, California, 1963-64

  • Wallace R. Brode, University of Illinois, 1961-62

  • Frank M. Carpenter, Harvard University, 1959-60

  • George H. Boyd, Johns Hopkins University, 1957-58

  • Joseph W. Barker, Lehigh University, 1954-56

  • Lewis J. Stadler, University of Missouri, 1953-54

  • Hugh S. Taylor, Rutgers University, 1951-53

  • George B. Pegram, Columbia University, 1949-51

  • Carl D. Anderson, California Institute of Technology, 1947-49

  • Harlow Shapley, University of Missouri, 1943-47

  • Edward Ellery, Union College, 1942-43

  • Ross A. Gortner, University of Minnesota, 1942

  • Edward Ellery, Union College, 1940-41

  • George A. Baitsell, Yale University, 1938-39

  • William F. Durand, Stanford University, 1936-37

  • George H. Parker, Harvard University, 1934-35

  • L.B. Wilson, Mayo, 1932-33

  • G.W. Stewart, University of Iowa, 1930-31

  • F.R. Moulton, University of Chicago, 1926-29

  • Floyd K. Richtmyer, Cornell University, 1924-25

  • Henry B. Ward, University of Illinois, 1922-23

  • Clarence E. McClung, University of Pennsylvania, 1920-21

  • Julius Stieglitz, University of Chicago, 1917-19

  • Charles S. Howe, Case Western Reserve, 1915-16

  • J. McKeen Cattell, Columbia University, 1913-14

  • Henry Turner Eddy, University of Minnesota, 1910-12

  • Frank Olin Marvin, University of Kansas, 1909-10

  • Edward Leamington Nichols, Cornell University, 1904-09

  • Samuel Wendell Williston, University of Kansas, 1901-04

  • Henry Shaler Williams, Cornell University, 1895-01

  • Charles Carroll Brown, Union College, 1893-1895

  • Edward Leamington Nichols, Cornell University, 1893

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