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Click the map below on your region to find your nearest chapter. If there are no chapters in your area, check out our Chapter Formation section to find out how to make your own.

West West West Central Western Midwest Midwest Southeast Northeast

West

Regional Representative: Paula Shadle

Phone: 925-283-3244

Shad1357@aol.com

AK (Fairbanks)

President: Elena Bautista Sparrow

School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences

303 O'Neil Building

PO Box 757200

Fairbanks, AK 99775-7200

Phone: 907-474-7699
Fax: 907-474-6184
ffebs@uaf.edu

CA (East Bay)

President: Mara Jeffress


Berkeley, Ca
mara.jeffress@gmail.com

http://www.ebawis.org

 

CA (Los Angeles/Ventura County)

President: Maria Aiello

Phone: 805-447-7114


maria2aiello@yahoo.com

 

CA (Palo Alto)

President: Rachel Harte                      

                             

2830 Gazelle Drive

Campbell, CA 95008

Phone: 408-866-6880
Fax: 408-866-6881 

harterac@yahoo.com                               

http://pa-awis.org                          

 

CA (Sacramento Valley)

President: Kirsten Sanford

522 9th Street

Davis, CA 95616

Phone: 415-948-3589

khsanford@ucdavis.edu
http://www.svawis.org

CA (San Diego)

President: Jenny Chaplin                      

PO Box 178096                                                    
San Diego, CA 92177
president@awissd.org

http://awis.npaci.edu

Secretary: Cindy Atwell   

secretary@awissd.org

CA (San Francisco)

President: Dr. Joleen T. White

PO Box 2144
South San Francisco, CA 94083-2144

Phone:415-506-6452
president@sfawis.com

www.sfawis.com

 

WA (Seattle)

President: Libby Colasurdo

1646 Kennedy Place

Dupont, WA 98327

Phone: 206-277-4586

info@seattleawis.org

http://www.seattleawis.org

 

Midwest

Regional Representative: Rebecca Domeck

Phone: 317-276-7964

domeck_rebecca_s@lilly.com

 

AR (Northeast)

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jeannette Loutsch, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences
PO Box 599
State University, AR 72467
Phone: 870-972-3082
jloutsch@astate.edu

AR (Ozark)

President: Sreekala Bajwa

University of Arkansas

Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Fayetteville, AR

sgbajwa@uark.edu

AZ (Phoenix-Central)

President: Winifred Doane

Arizona State Universtiy

wdoane@asu.edu


AZ (Tucson-Southern)

President: Dr. Elizabeth P Turtle

Dept. of Planetary Sciences
Lunar and Planetary Lab.
1629 E. Univ. Blvd.
Univ. of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721-0092
Phone: 520-621-8284
Fax: 520-621-4933
turtle@lpl.ar
izona.edu

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/faculty/malhotra_preprints/AWISSAZ.html

KS (Ad Astra)

President: Dominie Madonna Writt-Haas, M.A.

825 Alabama St

Lawrence, KS 66044

Phone: 785-864-4893
dominie@ku.edu

KS (Flint Hills)

Chapter Contact: Beth Montelone, Ph.D.

Deans' Office, Arts & Sciences
1117B Eisenhower Hall
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506-1005
Phone: 785-532-6900
Fax: 785-532-7004

bethmont@ksu.edu

KS (Sunflower)

Co-Presidents:             Susan Stover                                   Elizabeth Smith

                                        

                                         1733 Mississippi St

                                          Lawrence, KS 66044

                                          Phone: 785-296-0876

                                         sstover@kwo.state.ks.us            esmith@kdhe.state.ks.us

                                         http://www.washburn.edu/reference/awis   

 

TX (Corpus Christi)

President: Morgan Riley      

jyrochick99@yahoo.com

 

TX (Gulf Coast - Houston)

Chapter Contact: Irmgard Willcockson

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

7000 Fannin Suite 600

Houston, Texas 77030

Phone: 713-500-3627

Irmgard.Willcockson@uth.tmc.edu

Midwest

Regional Representative: Joan Herbers

Phone:614-292-1627

herbers.4@osu.edu

IL (Chicago)

President: Heather Behanna

303 East Chicago

Ward 8-196

Chicago, IL 60611

Phone: 312-850-0610
Fax: 312-829-4069

h-behanna@northwestern.edu
http://www.geocities.com/awis_chicago

IL (Heart of Illinois)

President: Dr. Zahia Drici

Illinois Wesleyan University
Dept of Mathematics & Computer Science
Science Building (201 E Beecher Street)
Bloomington, IL 61701-2900
Phone: 309-556-3669
Fax: 309-556-3864
zdrici@iwu.edu

http://www.phy.ilstu.edu/AWIS-HOI/

Chapter Contact: Grace Foote Johns M.S.

Illinois State University
Department of Physics
Campus Box 4560
Normal, IL 61790-4560
Phone: 309-438-8758
Fax: 309-452-1839
johns@phy.ilstu.edu

IN (Indianapolis)

President: Rebecca S Domeck

Eli Lilly and Company
Lilly Technology Center North
1301 Whiteriver Parkway
Bldg 82 MC 6414
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Phone: 317-276-7964
domeck_rebecca_s@lilly.com

http://www.science.iupui.edu/awis

LA (Northern)

Chapter Contact: Anna M. Hill Ph.D.

Department of Biology
University of Louisiana at Monroe
Monroe, LA 71209-0520
Phone: 318-342-1803
Fax: 318-342-3312
hill@ulm.edu

 

MI (Detroit)

President: Dr. Noemi G. Mirkin

Biophysics Research Division
University of Michigan
930 North University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055
Phone: 734-647-1834

nmirkin@umich.edu

MN (Lake Superior)

President: Rebecca Barnard

Secretary/Contact: Anett Trebitz

U.S. EPA Mid Continent Ecology Division

6201 Congdon Blvd

Duluth MN 55804

Phone: 218-529-5209

trebitz.anett@epa.gov

 

MO (Kansas City Area)

President: Emily Abdoler

William Jewell College
Box 2009
500 College Hill
Liberty, MO 64068
Phone: 816-781-7700 Ext. 3655
abdolere@william.jewell.edu

MO (St Louis)

President: Genevieve Croft

Washington University in St. Louis

croft@wustl.edu
http://awis.wustl.edu

 

OH (Columbus-Central Ohio)

President: Raquel Diaz-Sprague

Ohio State University
234 Oakland Park Avenue

Columbus, OH 43214
Phone: 614-268-1488,614-267-901
Fax: 614-268-1488
diaz-sprague.1@osu.edu

http://www.awisco.osu.edu

 

 

OH (Northwestern)

President: Patricia Komuniecki                            Contact: Karen Bjorkman

                                                                                     The University of Toledo

                                                                                     2801 W. Bancroft

                                                                                     Toledo, OH  43606

PKomuni@UTNet.UToledo.Edu                             karen@astro.utoledo.edu

http://www.physics.utoledo.edu/~ndm/AWIS/

Southeast

Regional Representative: Jennifer Wampler

phone: 619-804-6709

jennifer.wampler@gmail.com

AL (Auburn)

President: Amanda Savrda

savrdam@auburn.edu

 

FL (Miami Beach)

Chapter Contact: Marla Swaye

Miami Beach, FL

Phone: 305-725-9405

marla@marlaswaye.com


FL (Tallahassee)

Chapter Contact: Penny J. Gilmer

Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Florida State University
Tallahasee, FL 32306-4390
Phone: 850-644-4026
Fax: 850-644-8281
gilmer@chem.fsu.edu

 

GA (Southwest)

President: Kaye Specht

193 Somerset Drive

Albany, GA 31721

Phone: 706-542-8000

kayespecht2004@yahoo.com

GA (University of Georgia)

Graduate President: Erin Casey

ecasey@uga.edu

http://www.uga.edu/awis/

Undergraduate Co-President: Nithya Natrajan

                                                        Sana Hashmi

nithya78@uga.edu

shashmi@uga.edu

 

NC (RTP Triangle Area)

Chapter Contact: Nina Stromgren Allen

Department of Botany
Box 7612
Raleigh, NC 27695-7612
Phone: 919-515-8382
Fax: 919-515-3436
nina_allen@ncsu.edu

SC (Columbia)

Chapter Contact: Sarah Baxter

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of South Carolina

baxter@engr.sc.edu

TN (East)

Chapter Contact: Suzanne Lenhart

University of Tennessee

Mathematics Department

Knoxville, TN 37996-1300

Phone: 865-974-4270

Fax: 865-974-6576

lenhart@math.utk.edu

 

VA (New River Valley)

President: Claudia Brodkin, Ph.D

Blacksburg, VA 24060
clbrodki@vt.edu

 

WV (Morgantown)

Chapter Contact: Amy Keesee, Ph.D

PO Box 6315

Morgantown, WV 26506
ams_510@yahoo.com

http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/awis/

Northeast

Regional Representative: Alessandra Bini

Phone: 301-435-1024

binia@csr.nih.gov

CT

President: Holly Soutter

Pfizer Global Research and Development

Eastern Point Road

Groton, CT 06340

860-441-1464

holly.h.soutter@pfizer.com

www.awisct.ning.com

DC

President: Natalia Melcer

njmelcer@hotmail.com
www.awisdc.org

 

MD (Bethesda)

President: Carrie Wolinetz               

Managed Society Services of FASEB

9650 Rockville Pike

Bethesda, MD  20814

Phone:  301-634-7650

contact_us@awisbethesda.org

http://www.awisbethesda.org/

MA (Boston Area)

President: Rebecca Pitts

Scientist, Genetic Screening

PerkinElmer Life & Analytical Sciences

940 Winter Street

Waltham, MA 02451

Phone: 781-663-5826

rebecca.pitts@perkinelmer.com

 

NH (Durham-University of NH)

President: Anita Klein

Associate Professor of Biochemistry and

Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Plant Biology

University of New Hampshire

603-862-2455

anita.klein@unh.edu

NJ (Central)

President: Ildiko Antal

awis_cjc@yahoo.com
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/awis-cjc/


NY (Buffalo)

President: Dr. Gail Willsky

Department of Biochemistry
SUNY at Buffalo
School of Medicine & Biomedical Science
140 Farber Hall
Buffalo, NY 14214
Phone: 716-829-2969
Fax: 716-829-2725
gwillsky@acsu.buffalo.edu

NY (Metropolitan)

President: Kathleen Nolan

St. Francis College
180 Remsen Street
Room #5220
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Phone: 718-489-5439
knolan@stfranciscollege.edu

http://www.metronyawis.org

PA (CUP)

Coordinator: Dr. Kausar Yasmin

2123 Gibsonton Road

Belle Vernon, PA15012

Phone: 724-938-5935
Fax: 724-938-5874
yasmin@cup.edu

PA (Penn State University-University Park)

President: Holly Wolcott

Women in the Sciences & Engineering (WISE) Institute
The Pennsylvania State University
319 Boucke Building
University Park, PA 16802

Phone: 814-865-3342

hnw5000@psu.edu

http://www.clubs.psu.edu/up/awis/

PA (Philadelphia)

President: Christine DiRienzo                    Treasurer: Alice Marcy
                                                                          

                                                                           101 Warden Road

                                                                            Doylestown, PA 18901

president@awisphl.org
www.awisphl.org


PA (Pittsburgh Area)

President: Dana Schliebner                           Contact: Melissa Gillott-Egyed

Dana.Schliebner@onassignment.com        1617 Critchfield Drive

                                                                               Bridgefield, PA 15017
                                                                               Phone: 412-494-0100

                                                                               Microlab1@hvl.org

                                                                               http://www.pittawis.org/