Given as recognition for outstanding excellence in a body of work, this award reflected DeLeon s research on using the Chaos Theory to describe the fundamental laws on chemistry. Senior Patti Jo McCall-Ellidge of Highland was named the 1999 Outstanding Northwest Indiana Researcher. The geology major was recognized for her work involving the groundwater chemistry of slag at a local site. Sigma XI is a national society created to promote scientific research and is 120 years old. The local Northwest Indiana chapter has been in existence for 6 years.
Membership is by invitation.