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Society of Actuaries
The Society of Actuaries is a Chicago-based professional body, formed in 1949, that credentials and educates actuaries in life insurance, health, retirement, and enterprise risk management.
Society of Architectural Historians
The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1940 to promote the study and conservation of architecture, landscapes, and urbanism.
Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) is a not-for-profit member association and CableLabs subsidiary, founded in 1969, serving the broadband industry through standards, certification, and training.
Society of Chemical Industry
The Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) is an international, multidisciplinary charity founded in London in 1881 to advance applied chemistry, known for the Perkin Medal and its journals.
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) is a United States-based nonprofit professional organization for people who write, illustrate, and translate children's books.
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), founded 1970 in Los Angeles, is the largest nonprofit medical society for critical care, with 17,000+ members in over 100 countries, publishing Critical Care Medicine journal and ICU guidelines.
Society of Economic Geologists
The Society of Economic Geologists, founded in 1920, is a global nonprofit professional society advancing the geoscience of mineral resources, with over 6,000 members in more than 100 countries.
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), founded in 1930, is a professional society for applied geophysics, headquartered in Houston with more than 11,000 members in over 100 countries.
Society of Friends of the Polish Language
The Society of Friends of the Polish Language (Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego, TMJP) is a Polish organization, founded in Kraków in 1920, promoting the correct use and study of Polish.
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) is an American nonprofit supporting Hispanic students and professionals in STEM, founded in Los Angeles in 1974 by engineer Rodrigo Garcia.
Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers
The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) is the apex national body representing India's major vehicle and engine manufacturers, headquartered at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
The Society of Jesus, or 耶稣会, is a Catholic religious order founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534, whose members served the Qing court as scientists.
Society of Jesus in Brazil
The Society of Jesus in Brazil (Companhia de Jesus no Brasil) was the Jesuit branch in Portuguese America, arriving in 1549 under Manuel da Nóbrega and expelled in 1759.
Society of Jesus in Spanish America
The Society of Jesus in Spanish America (Compañía de Jesús) was the Jesuit branch in the Spanish Indies, running colleges and missions until its 1767 expulsion.
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
SME, legally the Society of Manufacturing Engineers until 2013, is a North American nonprofit professional association for manufacturing, founded in 1932 in Detroit and now headquartered in Southfield, Michigan.
Society of Mary (Marianists)
The Society of Mary, whose members are called Marianists, is a Catholic religious institute of priests and brothers founded by William Joseph Chaminade in Bordeaux, France, in 1817.
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers), founded 1916 as the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, is a nonprofit standards body for film, television, and digital media, with 800+ standards in force including ST 2110, SDI, MXF, IMF, and D-Cinema.
Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) is an international professional society serving the maritime and offshore industries, founded in 1893 and based in Alexandria, Virginia.
Society of Petroleum Engineers
The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), founded in 1957, is a not-for-profit professional association for oil and gas engineers and scientists, headquartered in Richardson, Texas.
Society of Physics Students
The Society of Physics Students (SPS) is a professional association for undergraduate physics and astronomy students in the United States, run by the American Institute of Physics since 1968.
Society of Plastics Engineers
The Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), founded in 1942, is an international professional society for plastics scientists and engineers, publishing four peer-reviewed journals and holding the annual ANTEC conference.
Society of Professional Journalists
Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), founded 1909 as Sigma Delta Chi at DePauw University, is a US journalism association best known for its voluntary Code of Ethics, its Sigma Delta Chi Awards, and press freedom advocacy.
Society of Saint Pius X
The Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) is a traditionalist Catholic priestly society founded in 1970 by French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre to celebrate the pre-Vatican II liturgy.
Society of Serbian Letters
The Society of Serbian Letters (Друштво српске словесности) was the first learned society of the Principality of Serbia, founded in Belgrade in 1841 and abolished in 1864.
Society of Swedish Literature in Finland
The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland (Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland) is a scholarly association founded in Helsinki in 1885 to preserve Swedish culture in Finland.
Society of the Cincinnati
The Society of the Cincinnati, also the Cincinnati Society, founded May 1783 at Newburgh, New York, is America's oldest patriotic and first hereditary society, for male descendants of Revolutionary War Continental and French officers, with its Eagle insignia and Anderson House headquarters.
Society of the Friends of the Blacks
The Society of the Friends of the Blacks (Société des Amis des Noirs) was France's first anti-slavery organization, founded in Paris in 1788 by Brissot and Clavière.
Society of the Snow
Society of the Snow is a 2023 Spanish-language survival drama directed by J. A. Bayona, telling the story of the 1972 Andes plane crash from the survivors' view.
Society of Thoracic Surgeons
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), founded 1964, is the world's largest cardiothoracic surgery organization with 8,000+ members in 102 countries, known for the STS National Database, risk-adjusted star ratings, and The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.
Society of Ukrainian Progressives
The Society of Ukrainian Progressives (Tovarystvo ukrainskykh postupovtsiv, TUP), founded in Kyiv on 8 September 1908, was a clandestine, nonparty Ukrainian civic-political organization in the Russian Empire, active until 1917.