News Archive

Richard L. Watkins, PhD will lead the membership and chapter services team at the Society.

Top awards were given by judges and public vote for the 2022 virtual student competition.

Sigma Xi continued its support by judging and awarding Life and Physical Science special awards.

We check in with Grants in Aid of Research recipient Deborah Neher, who received two GIAR awards as a graduate student in the late 1980's to purchase supplies for her early research in plant and soil science.

We check in with Grants in Aid of Research recipient Peteneinuo Rulu, whose 2020 grant helped fund her research on Naga women to better understand potential relationships among sociocultural and familial factors, reproductive and other related factors, and symptom experience at midlife.

Sigma Xi will donate $1 to the global reforestation charity for every $25 donated to the Society. Each contribution will support scientific research and go toward the planting of one tree.

Catching up with Grants in Aid of Research recipient Anabel Ford, who reflects back on how her Fall 1980 grant for her research on archaeological samples of ancient Maya ceramics, helped launch her scientific career.

The lectureship and its recipients will honor and reflect the legacy of pioneering chemist Dr. Rudolph Pariser and the creativity and research excellence exemplified throughout his life and career.

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society announces the hiring of Tamara Poles in the role of Director of Programs.

More students from underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and math will have the opportunity to receive research grants from Sigma Xi than in recent years thanks to a new $20,000 gift from the Ruby K. Worner Trust.

Presented to a Sigma Xi member who identifies as a woman, the award will recognize outstanding service and leadership potential of an early career scholar/researcher.

The theme for IFoRE ’22 is “Science Convergence in an Inclusive and Diverse World.” Attendees will take part in a variety of multi-track sessions that explore the strength of scientific research when diverse minds converge as well as ideas that conquer the challenges of increasing equity and inclusion in the research community.

Catching up with Grants in Aid of Research recipient Markes Johnson, whose Spring 1975 grant helped fund a geology/paleontology project that led directly to one of the first publications in his scientific career.

Winners announced for the special donor drawing for signed Sidney Harris science cartoon book series.

Sigma Xi is pleased to announce the awarding of 110 student research grants for the Fall 2021 cycle of its Grants in Aid of Research (GIAR) program.

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society is pleased to announce the launch of a new digital platform for its award-winning magazine, American Scientist.

We catch up with Grants in Aid of Research recipient, Anthony Oppong-Gyebi, whose Fall 2019 grant helped fund his project to investigate the plant-based estrogenic compound genistein as a viable alternative to estrogen therapy.

We catch up with Spring 2018 Grants in Aid of Research recipient, Effua Sosoo.