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Sigma Xi
 Sigma Xi members and staff were in Washington, DC, this month to support the United States’ largest celebration of science, technology, engineering, and math—the USA Science and Engineering Festival.
Next, Sigma Xi heads to Pittsburgh for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), the world's largest precollege science competition. Qualified members in the Pittsburgh area are invited to judge on May 15–16, to select the presentations that will receive a total of $6,000 from Sigma Xi’s Special Awards in Team Science.
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Six Sigma Xi members who have made some of the most significant research discoveries in recent history will be honored in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
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 Sigma Xi was a sponsor of the flagship March for Science event on April 14 in Washington, DC, and Executive Director and CEO Jamie Vernon was a speaker at the march in Raleigh, North Carolina. Meanwhile, the Society’s network of chapters and members had roles in multiple satellite events.
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If you haven't already, it's time to renew your membership or affiliate status for Fiscal Year 2018. You can check if your dues are current and renew online. You will also receive all back issues of American Scientist since July 1, 2017. Thank you to all members and affiliates who have already renewed.
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The Sigma Xi Chapter at Fordham University in New York City inducted 103 new members on April 9. The chapter has a history of having high initiate numbers. Last year, it had the second highest initiations of all Sigma Xi chapters.
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A major obstacle for most non-university and non-government researchers is lack of affordable access to an Institutional Review Board (IRB). In response, in 2016 the Rice University / Texas Medical Center Sigma Xi Chapter created an IRB for this purpose and now offers that IRB's services to all, especially to Sigma Xi members nationally. READ MORE
Chapter leaders: Add your events to your community's calendars so they can be displayed at community.sigmaxi.org/events/calendar.
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The University of Michigan Chapter is a sponsor of a symposium on April 19 at the university's Ann Arbor campus about gene editing and its ethical implications. Speakers will discuss the potential benefits and negatives of CRISPR/Cas9, and whether the technique will screen out Down syndrome.
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The 2018 Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference will explore big data—the concept of too much data to handle in a traditional way—and how it will affect the future of research. The October 25–28 meeting at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport in California will feature three symposia about big data in biology and medicine; physics and astronomy; and energy, climate, and the environment. Save 20 percent on registration with early bird rates.
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American Scientist
People commonly think of Charles Darwin as a serious naturalist thanks to his portraits, but James T. Costa, executive director of the Highlands Biological Station in Highlands, North Carolina, writes that these portraits don't tell the true story of who Darwin was.
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American Scientist
In The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World, cartographers John Davies and Alexander J. Kent describe the efforts of the Soviet Army to meticulously map everything, down to the load-bearing capacity of bridges and the girth of forest trees. American Scientist's Dianne Timblin reviews their book.
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R&D Magazine
During the past several years, many strains of bacteria have become resistant to existing antibiotics, and very few new drugs have been added to the antibiotic arsenal. To help combat this growing public health problem, some scientists are exploring antimicrobial peptides—naturally occurring peptides found in most organisms. Most of these are not powerful enough to fight off infections in humans.
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Science News
Emperor penguins are known to huddle for warmth, but their regal relatives prefer personal space. Aerial photos of two king penguin breeding colonies show that individuals and couples keep their distance from neighbors but still stay together as a group. That arrangement resembles a simulated 2-D liquid in which molecules on a flat plane simultaneously attract and repel one another, researchers report in the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.
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