Sigma Pi Sigma

Sigma Pi Sigma

General information:
Sigma Pi Sigma was founded in 1921 at Davidson College, North Carolina. Today, Sigma Pi Sigma is an honor society within the Society of Physics Students and a member honor society of the Association of College Honor Societies. Chapters exist at hundreds of colleges and universities nationwide that offer a strong physics major. Sigma Pi Sigma membership is open to undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty members. In general, a candidate for membership must be in the upper one-third of their class in general scholarship to meet the minimum requirements for admission. The candidate must also have completed at least three semesters of full-time college work and at least three semester courses in physics. Typically, at the University of Louisville, these requirements translate into second semester sophomore standing with a 3.0+ gpa and the completion of PHYSICS 298, 299 & 300 as well as the accompanying laboratories 295, 296 & 301.
What Sigma Pi Sigma membership means:

Honor: Sigma Pi Sigma is the official honor society of the physics profession. Through election to Sigma Pi Sigma, distinctive achievement and high scholarship in physics is recognized and celebrated.

Encouragement: By honoring high achievement in physics and upholding high standards for election into Sigma Pi Sigma, the Society provides an incentive for all physics students to rise to excellence. The Society also encourages physics interest and science literacy in the general public.

Service: With the recognition of accomplishment comes a responsibility to serve. As persons who earned our Sigma Pi Sigma insignia pins by midnight oil, we appreciate the struggles of fellow students and colleagues who are facing similar challenges. When our experience and resources are placed at their service, then Sigma pi Sigma touches more lives than may be counted by the number of its members. because e respect the struggle for excellence, we support the generations of students that follow us.

Fellowship: Sigma Pi Sigma members cut across generational lines. the first members were inducted in 1921. New members are added every year. this represents many generations of experience and wisdom that can be brought to bear on matters of common interest to all members.
Sigma Pi Sigma members cut across professional lines. Besides physicist, many members of other professions also enrich our ranks, uniting a diverse group of people who have shared in the culture and traditions of physics, and have demonstrated that they could excel in it.
With this common thread of a shared background in physics running through so rich a diversity of generations and professions, and with the publications and meetings of the Society available for communication instruments, Sigma Pi Sigma nurtures a spirit of professional community among its members, and encourages them to offer their collective wisdom and perspectives in the service of society.