Society of Physics Students

Sigma Pi Sigma, the only national physics honor society, was founded as a local honor organization at Davidson College, North Carolina in 1921. Soon chapters were installed at Duke Univeristy and the Pennsylvania State Univeristy. In 1968 Sigma Pi Sigma joined with the AIP student sections to form the Society of Physics Students (SPS). It continues to operate as a fully recognized honor society within the SPS, a unique arrangement in student organizations.

The society is now national in scope, with over 250 active chapters distributed among the colleges and universites across the country, including many of the leading institutions. The total membership is more than 40,000 of whom about 2,500 are members of the active chapters and the remaining are alumni members.

The Ouachita chapter of SPS and Sigma Pi Sigma is a joint chapter with Henderson State Univeristy, also in Arkadelphia. This unique relationship offers students the chance to interact with other students in a different instituion and share academically. The OBU-HSU chapter sponsors a physics department tea weekly, with an associated lecture conducted by one of the professors. SPS and Sigma Pi Sigma also sponsors a cookout once a semester for physics students at the institutions.

Glen Good is the current faculty advisor for SPS and Sigma Pi Sigma.

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