KAPPA PSI | BETA OMICRON
Welcome to the website of Kappa Psi | Beta Omicron. John Muir, naturalist, and conservationist, fathered the National Park Service in 1916. That same year, Beta Omicron was chartered. Through Great Wars and economic hardships, the brothers of Beta Omicron have witnessed many of the defining moments of American history. Our deep roots and the legacy that precedes us guides our brothers today in our mission to serve our community, honor our Hippocratic oath, and advance our profession of pharmacy. We do this knowing that every one of our brothers are reaching for that common goal.
“BROTHERS BECOME MEMBERS FOR LIFE”
— KAPPA PSI HANDBOOK
Kappa Psi was founded on May 30, 1879 in New Haven, Connecticut, and currently there are 183 chapters (108 Collegiate and 75 Graduate chapters), more than six thousand collegiate members, and over eighty seven thousand graduate members across the United States, Canada, and the Bahamas.
The objectives of Kappa Psi include:
To conduct a professional fraternal organization for the mutual benefit of its members;
To develop industry, sobriety, and fellowship;
To foster high ideals, scholarship, and pharmaceutical research;
To support all projects which will advance the profession of pharmacy and to actively participate in them;
To inspire in its members a deep and lasting pride in their Fraternity and in the profession of pharmacy;
To render such other services to its members and its profession feasible and in accordance with the constitution and bylaws of the Fraternity.
Founded on April 15th, 1916, Beta Omicron was chartered. It is a part of the Northwest Province which consists of chapters residing in the states of Alaska, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming.