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PRESIDENT: Holger Mauch, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
local: (727) 864-8372
email: mauchh@eckerd.edu
VICE-PRESIDENT: Jonathan Cohen, Assistant Professor of Marine Science and Biology
local: (727) 864-7827
email: cohenjh@eckerd.edu
TREASURER & SECRETARY: Nancy Smith, Associate Professor of Marine Science & Biology
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Sigma Xi
Eckerd College
4200 54th Avenue South
St. Petersburg, FL 33711
toll-free: (800) 456-9009
Monday - Friday
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Sigma Xi
What is Sigma Xi?
Founded in 1886, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society is a non-profit membership society of more than 70,000 scientists and engineers who were elected to the Society because of their research achievements or potential. Today, it is an international, multidisciplinary research society whose programs and activities promote the health of the scientific enterprise and honor scientific achievement. There are nearly 65,000 Sigma Xi members in more than 100 countries around the world. Sigma Xi has more than 500 chapters at universities and colleges, government laboratories and industry research centers. In addition to publishing American Scientist, Sigma Xi awards grants annually to promising young researchers, holds forums on critical issues at the intersection of science and society and sponsors a variety of programs supporting honor in science and engineering, science education, science policy and the public understanding of science.
Pledge of the Society
"Do you hereby pledge yourself, in accordance with the purposes and objectives of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, to encourage original investigation in science, to foster companionship and cooperation among scientists, to maintain honor, integrity and honesty in all scientific activities, and to assume the other continuing responsibilities of membership"?
