Chapter Name: Texas A & M University

Chapter ID Number: 109
Complete Date: 07/28/2005 

Statistics on: 05/30/2003
Number of active members: 361
Number of inactive members: 342
Number of Initiates elected from July 1, 2002-June 30, 2003: 18 

Statistics on 04/13/2004
Number of active members: 323
Number of inactive members: 385
Number of initiates elected from July 1, 2003 June 30, 2004: 36 

Statistics on 04/05/2005
Number of active members: 320
Number of inactive members: 421
Number of initiates elected from July 1, 2004 June 30, 2005: 25

Good standing status for the year ending June 30, 2006
Officers on file: Yes
Delegate to one of the last three annual meetings: Yes
Last year's chapter annual report on file: Yes
One initiate over last two years: Yes

Local Support Payments from Sigma Xi this year:
01/31/2005 = $910.10
09/30/2004 = $1,515.33  

Chapter Web site: http://sigmaxi.tamu.edu/ 

Chapter Listserv: ch109@listserver.sigmaxi.org

Grants and Funding Received from Sigma Xi: No records found

Sigma Xi Awards Received: No records found

Tax ID Number: 746052039

Chapter Address:
200 Greens Prairie Road 121 C
Texas A&M University
MS 3470
College Station TX 77843-3470

Chapter Officers reported for FY2006 July 1, 2005 June 30, 2006
President: Term: FY2006
President ID: 20041090002
Name: Dr. Ramesh Talreja
Home Number: 936-588-3366
Business Number: 979-458-3256
Fax Number: 979-862-6051
E-mail Address: talreja@aero.tamu.edu 

Vice President: Term: FY2006
Vice President ID: 20021090010
Name: Dr. Russell Feagin
Home Number: 979-739-6163
Business Number: 979-862-2612
Fax Number: 979-862-2607
E-mail Address: feaginr@tamu.edu 

Treasurer: Term: FY2006
Treasurer ID: 20001090004
Name: Dr. Clifton Griffin Ph.D.
Home Number: 979-690-0974
Business Number: 979-845-3631
Fax Number: 979-845-1596
E-mail Address: clifton@tamu.edu

Chapter Operations:
Identified new chapter leaders: No

Increased the number of members involved in/or attending chapter activities? Yes

Sent a student to the Sigma Xi Student Research Conference? Yes

Developed or maintained a chapter web site? Yes

Sent a newsletter or regular communication to members? No

Sent Electronic newsletter? Yes

Communicated with inactive members? Yes

Nominated new faculty or institutional leaders for Sigma Xi membership? Yes

Paid initiate fees for new members? No

Promoted Associate Members? Yes

Created new chapter program? Yes

Worked on vitalizing the chapter? Yes

Worked with another Sigma Xi Chapter? Yes

Description: This symposium has become a recognized annual event at TAMU. It grows in popularity every year attracting excellent speakers and attendees. This year’s theme was Science and Engineering for Sustainable Development. Professor Winston Soboyejo from Princeton University was the featured speaker. Dr. Soboyejo has an active research program on the fatigue and fracture of advanced intermetallics and composites. Dr. Soboyejo worked as a research scientist at the McDonnell Douglas Research Labs, St. Louis, Missouri, on the development of high temperature intermetallics and composites for hypersonic vehicles, and the development of state-of-the-art structural life prediction methodologies. Dr. Soboyejo has authored over seventy papers, presented three invited papers and was selected in 1991 as one of Missouri's 25 most distinguished scientists. He was also the recipient of Young Investigator Awards from The National Science Foundation and Office of Naval Research in 1994.

PromotingResearch: Yes
UndergradResSymp: Yes
GradResSymp: Yes
ScienceEducPubUnderS: Yes
MentorUndergrad: Yes
MentorGrad: Yes
ResLocalCommunity: Yes
ScienceGenPublic: Yes
HostLect: Yes
HostLectBySXMem: Yes
HostedSiteVisits: Yes
ResPolicyMakers: Yes
DebatesLocalIssues: Yes
actstatus: Complete

ActivityName: Annual Induction Ceremony and Awards Banquet
Participation: 100
Participants: Mostly Sigma Xi members
Cost: 2000
ChapterFunds: Yes
InstitutionFunds: Yes
IndividualDonors: Yes
YearDone: > 10 years

Description: Each year the Texas A&M University Chapter conducts an induction ceremony for new members and presents awards for outstanding public school science teachers, science communicators, and a distinguished scientist. This year the Banquet was held on March 31, following the annual symposium. Following the induction of 14 new members awards were presented to: Distinguished Scientist - Dr. J. N. Reddy; Outstanding Science Communitator - Mr. Jim Hiney; Outstanding High School Science Teacher - Mr. Chris Ormiston; Outstanding Middle School Science Teacher - Ms. Jane Scallon; and Outstanding Elementary School Science Teacher - Mr. David Cain. Patricia Galloway was our featured speaker. Patricia Galloway is Chair of the Board and CEO of The Nielsen-Wurster Group. Ms. Galloway was also inducted as the first woman president (2003-2004) of the American Society of Civil Engineers. She is an internationally recognized leader in civil engineering and has also helped lead the society's globalization initiative by serving as the chair of the ASCE International Committee as well as serving on the ASCE as its international director from 1992-1995.

PromotingResearch: Yes
GradResSymp: Yes
SuppInterRes: Yes
ScienceEducPubUnderS: Yes
MentorGrad: Yes
ResLocalCommunity: Yes
ResLocalMedia: Yes
ScienceGenPublic: Yes
Recognition: Yes
AwardK12Teaching: Yes
AwardFacultyRes: Yes
AwardCommService: Yes
PubPolicySciAdvoc: Yes
ResPolicyMakers: Yes
DebatesLocalIssues: Yes
actstatus: Complete

ActivityName: External Awards Committee
Participation: 10
Participants: Mostly Sigma Xi members
YearDone: Please Choose

Description: This committee is comprised of the Associate Deans for Research in those colleges that have members in Sigma Xi. We have been incredibly successful in obtaining Sigma Xi awards in the past few years due in part to the enthusiasm of the committee members.We are proud to report in 2005 the following talented individuals were selected for Sigma XI Awards - Thomas E. Spencer (Young Investigator Award), Bjarne Stroustrup ( William Proctor Prize) and Al Cotton (Monie Ferst Award). Members of the committee are not necessarily members of Sigma Xi but are able to see the value of the Sigma Xi organization.

Recognition: Yes
AwardFacultyRes: Yes
AwardCommService: Yes
actstatus: Complete

ActivityName: Educational Outreach Committee
Participation: 30
Participants: Please Choose
Cost: 200
ChapterFunds: Yes
YearDone: 1st year

Description: This committee was formed in an attempt to centralize educational outreach and to build off of each others ideas to have a better outcome for TAMU and K-12 education throughout the state.

The committee met with a group of program representatives and each program representative was given the opportunity to summarize their outreach efforts and then an open discussion was held concerning how we could leverage each program's efforts to maximize the impact on TAMU and on K-12 education throughout the state.

PromotingResearch: Yes
UndergradResSymp: Yes
ScienceEducPubUnderS: Yes
MentorK12: Yes
ResLocalSchools: Yes
ResLocalCommunity: Yes
LecturesWorkshopProf: Yes
PubPolicySciAdvoc: Yes
DebatesLocalIssues: Yes
actstatus: Complete

ActivityName: Essay and Drawing Contest for Middle Schools
Participation: 200
Participants: Some Sigma Xi members
Cost: 375.00
ChapterFunds: Yes
InstitutionFunds: Yes
YearDone: > 10 years

Description: The TAMU chapter of Sigma XI co-sponsors an essay and drawing contest each year for middle school students. This years contest was held in conjunction with Dr. David Woodcock's lecture entitled: The Architectural Investigation of Historic Resources. Each contestant was asked to create a drawing of differant types of houses or historical buildings in their community and a drawing of a home of the future (2050). The essay portion was to be regarding how low-cost homes for large numbers of people in other States and in other parts of the world compare.

Five winners were presented with $75.00 certificates.

PromotingResearch: Yes
HSResSymp: Yes
MentorK12: Yes
ResLocalSchools: Yes
Recognition: Yes
AwardK12Teaching: Yes
actstatus: Complete