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Sigma Xi
In today's competitive job market, having leadership skills can help you acquire promotions, salary increases, and new career options. Sigma Xi Executive Director and CEO Jamie Vernon shares his advice for developing leadership skills, and what he has learned.
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Saint Mary's College
The data science program at Saint Mary’s College gives graduate students like Masa Gumiro the opportunity to directly experience the work of a data scientist through the practicum project. Before he graduated, Masa’s practicum project won a national competition, earned him financial awards, and secured new professional opportunities.
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Sigma Xi
Featuring a wide variety of session topics, the Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference on November 14–17 in Madison, Wisconsin, is the place to be for professional researchers, students, and science communicators. You can get 10 percent off registration if you sign up to attend by September 15.
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Sigma Xi
The State University College at Plattsburgh Chapter and the Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Chapter received grants from Sigma Xi last year to develop innovative educational programs. They report on what they accomplished.
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Sigma Xi
It's time to renew dues for membership, the Affiliate Circle, or Sigma Xi Explorers for fiscal year 2020 (July 1, 2019–June 30, 2020). Renewing online is easy. Continue the honor, renew today! Thank you to those who already renewed.
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| MEMBERS AND CHAPTERS NEWS |
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Member Gretchen Fougere is a speaker at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society’s Conference, held July 23–27 in Berlin. She will share stories and evidence from the field about how women and those who are underrepresented in engineering can thrive.
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The Fairfield University Chapter in Connecticut hosted a lunch where students shared their summer research projects.
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Sigma Xi
Be part of an event that will bring the beauty and wonder of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to the public: the Sigma Xi STEM Art and Film Festival! The deadline to submit art has been extended to August 15.
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Tim Donohue, interim director of the Wisconsin Energy Institute and a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, will be a keynote speaker at the Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference. He will report on research to design the microbial and plant systems needed to convert biomass into fuels and chemicals that are currently derived from petroleum.
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American Scientist
A slew of books have been published in connection with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. This roundup introduces you to 16 of them.
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American Scientist
This archipelago's society before Western contact developed a large, self-sufficient population, yet imposed a remarkably small ecological footprint.
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| RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND GOVERNMENT NEWS |
Council on Undergraduate Research
The 2019 REU Symposium of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) will take place on October 27–28 at the Westin Alexandria in Alexandria, Virginia. The symposium will feature presentations by students from Research Experiences for Undergraduates programs (REUs) in all disciplines funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), sessions for REU administrators and faculty, and opportunities to meet with representatives from NSF and other government agencies. A mentor or principal investigator may nominate one student from an REU site to participate in the symposium. The nomination deadline is August 23.
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Scripps Research Institute via ScienceDaily
Scientists shed new light on the role that exosomes play in brain development. They show that exosomes are not only integral to the development of neurons and neural circuits, but they can restore health to brain cells affected by developmental disease.
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Science News
Physicists are taking their quantum powers to the next level—the next energy level, that is.
Researchers have controlled the motion of a trapped ion, an electrically charged atom, better than ever possible before, manipulating the energy level of its oscillation within an electromagnetic field. A single ion of beryllium, trapped by electromagnetic fields, was made to oscillate according to scientists' bidding, the team reports July 22 in Nature.
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