Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society (ΣΞ) is a non-profit honor society for scientists and engineers. Sigma Xi was founded at Cornell University by a junior faculty member and a small group of graduate students in 1886 and is one of the oldest honor societies.
Following is a list of Sigma Xi chapters. [1] [2] [3] Sigma Xi is an international scientific research honor society. [1] In addition to collegiate chapters, the society maintains area and company-based chapters. Active chapters are indicated in bold. Inactive chapters or institutions are in italics.
Donna Nelson – President of Oklahoma Sigma Xi Chapter, American Chemical Society (ACS) President (2016), Breaking Bad science advisor (2008-2013). Linus Pauling – Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner [27] Harry Snyder – President of Minnesota Sigma Xi Chapter [28] Kelly O. Sullivan – Sigma Xi President, 2012-2013
The Honor Society Caucus is an umbrella organization that represents several prestigious collegiate honor societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Omicron Delta Kappa. The caucus is a coordinating organization of four of the oldest independent honor societies, including three of the original six founding members of the ...
American Scientist (informally abbreviated AmSci) is an American bimonthly science and technology magazine published since 1913 by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society. In the beginning of 2000s the headquarters was moved to Research Triangle Park, (Durham), North Carolina.
The Association of College Honor Societies (ACHS) is a voluntary association of national collegiate and post-graduate honor societies.It was established on December 30, 1925 by six organizations, including Alpha Omega Alpha, the Order of the Coif, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, and Tau Beta Pi.
Some honor societies are invitation-only while others allow unsolicited applications. Finally, membership in an honor society might be considered exclusive, i.e., a member of such an organization cannot join other honor societies representing the same field. Governance varies from faculty-guided to purely student-run.
Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi were founded in 1885 and 1886, respectively. And then there was Phi Beta Kappa, a social and literary society that did not originate as an honor society when it was founded in 1776 but by the 1850s, according to historians, [5] had evolved as an honor society for the liberal arts and sciences.