Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity, Inc. was founded on May 30, 1879 in New Haven, Connecticut, and currently there are 155 chapters (90 Collegiate and 65 Graduate chapters), more than six thousand collegiate members, and over eighty seven thousand graduate members across the United States, Canada, and the Bahamas. Kappa Psi is the oldest and largest pharmacy fraternity in the world.
The objectives of Kappa Psi include:
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.
The Epsilon Kappa Chapter was founded on February 21, 2010 at the Belmont University College of Pharmacy by thirty-seven visionary pharmacy students and faculty member Dr. Sal Giorgianni. Since the chapter's inception, the brothers of Epsilon Kappa have served the Belmont and Nashville communities through service and professionalism, while instilling the objectives of Kappa Psi and the benefits of brotherhood to fellow future pharmacists.