Editing Sigma Xi (section)

==Motto and name==
The [[Greek letters]] "[[Sigma]]" and "[[Xi (letter)|Xi]]" form the acronym of the Society's motto, {{lang|grc|Σπουδῶν Ξυνῶνες}} or "Spoudon Xynones," which translates as "Companions in Zealous Research." The word 'Honor' was added to the name of the Society at the 2016 Annual Meeting.<ref name="name">Guidotti, TL. [https://www.sigmaxi.org/news/keyed-in/post/keyed-in/2016/12/13/sigma-xi-the-scientific-research-honor-society ''Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society''] Keyed In Blog. 13 December 2016.</ref> According to Sigma Xi President Tee L. Guidotti,

<blockquote>"Sigma Xi, of course, is our basic name and has been since the organization was founded in 1886 as the scientific and engineering counterpart to Phi Beta Kappa. Like all "Greek letter" societies, whether professional or social, it is an acronym for the motto of the organization, {{lang|grc|Σπουδων Ξυνωνες}} (Spoudon Xynones), which translates as "companions in Zealous Research." For many years, we were referred to as "Society of the Sigma Xi." In the early twentieth century, some in the leadership wanted "Sigma Xi" to be dropped altogether in favor of some formulation such as "Scientific Research Society of America." In a strange quirk of history, both names survived because the organization split in the 1940s into an academic honor society (Sigma Xi) and an honor society for applied research and engineering (the Scientific Research Society of America, called RESA). RESA was a separate entity, wholly owned by Sigma Xi, and represented engineers and scientists at non-academic institutions, such as government and industrial research laboratories. In an even stranger development, Sigma Xi and RESA merged back together in 1974 and eventually began calling itself Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society."<ref name=name/></blockquote>