News Archive

Congratulations to the members who were elected to leadership positions within the Society. Many of them are starting their new terms on July 1.

Sigma Xi member Mary Ellen Close of Salem, Wisconsin, has watched eclipses with astronomers, slept on a Trans-Siberian Railway train, and seen a wild hippo along the Nile.

Two Sigma Xi chapters started new programs with support from the Science, Math, and Engineering Education Grant.

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A member has been selected for a graduate fellowship by an engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi.

In the spring 2019 cycle of its Grants in Aid of Research program, the Society awarded 143 grants totaling $137,984 to students.

Attendees at the 2019 Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference will hear a personal, recorded message from an Intel Corporation cofounder.

The Society is pleased to announce the 2019 award winners. Many of them will be featured speakers at the Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference.

Danny Collins, a junior at Newton South High School in Newton, Massachusetts, has won the 2019 People’s Choice Award in Sigma Xi's Student Research Showcase.

Sigma Xi members attended the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, Arizona, to award $6,000 to students.

Judges have named the division winners and inaugural overall top presenter for the Student Research Showcase. Voting for the People's Choice Award is open.

Peter Hotez of Baylor College of Medicine will discuss developing new vaccines while facing modern 21st century forces, including the antivaccine movement.

Undergraduate and graduate students from New England came together to display their research.

A free, public screening and discussion of the Netflix documentary film Chasing Coral will come to Madison, Wisconsin, as part of the Sigma Xi STEM Art and Film Festival.

You can encourage future scientists and engineers in their research pursuits from your own computer.

Join us at Sigma Xi’s Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference, November 14–17, in Madison, Wisconsin.

We catch up with grant recipient Jason Strickland and his project that investigated venom variation in Mojave rattlesnakes.

In honor of Women’s History Month in March, Sigma Xi asked female members about the challenges they see for women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) as well as possible solutions for those issues.

Your Sigma Xi membership is a distinction on your curriculum vitae that potential employers will notice. That honor, however, is just the beginning of how the Society can help with your career goals.

President Joel Primack discusses how Sigma Xi researchers can help preserve a livable world for future generations.