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 We have experienced a historic need along the gulf coast of Texas and Louisiana where many people, including our fellow researchers, are being impacted by the flooding from Hurricane Harvey. You can help by contacting a member or chapter in the affected area, opening your lab to displaced researchers, and donating.
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Sigma Xi reaffirmed its commitment to the principles of equality on the 54th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
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 Stuart Cooper describes what is needed to maintain Sigma Xi's momentum, and how he came to the decision to focus the Society's fall symposium on climate change.
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Voting is open through September 10 for the Elite 8 round of October Madness, the Society's Nobel Prize prediction contest. Vote for your favorites in the chemistry, physics, and physiology or medicine categories!
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Are you a cutting edge junior researcher looking to further your career abroad? The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Sofja Kovalevskaja Award provides €1.65 million to support you and your team for a 5-year project of choice!
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High schools students can publish their research in Sigma Xi's referred journal, Chronicle of The New Researcher, thanks to support from J&J Editorial, a publishing services company.
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Now is the time to renew your membership or affiliate status for FY2018. You can check if your dues are current and renew online. Thank you to all members and affiliates who already renewed.
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 See how your fellow members watched the Great American Eclipse!
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Donation items for the victims of Hurricane Harvey are being collected by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Graduate Program in Microbiology & Immunology, in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh Chapter.
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The University of New Mexico Chapter posted a schedule for its 2017–2018 Science and Society Distinguished Public Lectures. The first event, "Addressing Lithium-ion Battery Resilience" by Heather Barkholtz of Sandia National Laboratory, is on September 7. These events are free and open to the public.
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The University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Chapter and Research Triangle Park Chapter are sponsoring the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society’s 2017 Student and New Investigator Luncheon on September 12 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Attendees will learn how to break out of research paper mode to tell engaging stories about their discoveries, hear advice about connecting with your audience, and participate in an interactive discussion about how to improve analogies for explaining scientific concepts.
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The Temple University Chapter in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will host a lecture on September 27 by Angelika Dimoka titled, "How Do You Really Decide? Looking 'Under the Hood' and Into the Brain." Dimoka is an associate professor of marketing and the Marvin Wachman Senior Research Fellow at the Fox School of Business at Temple University.
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 Learn about the interplay between humanity and the carbon cycle from David Archer, professor of geophysical sciences at The University of Chicago. Archer will be a featured speaker at the Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry, Climate, and Health on November 10 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Are you recruiting high school, undergraduate, and graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and math for your university or institution? Don't miss the chance to connect with them at the College and Career Fair on November 11 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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How can you protect your property from the threat of forest fires? Should you plan for larger power bills in the future? Come with your questions and learn directly from researchers at Sigma Xi's Town Hall Q & A About Climate Change on November 10 at the Raleigh Convention Center. The Town Hall is free with Eventbrite registration and open to the public.
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Watch how students find mentors, win awards, and build their science communication skills at the Student Research Conference. This year's conference will be held on November 11 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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American Scientist
In this passage adapted from their new book, The Sun, Smithsonian astrophysicist Leon Golub and Williams College Sigma Xi Chapter President Jay M. Pasachoff explain how researchers came to understand the origin of the corona that appears during the fleeting moments of totality during a solar eclipse.
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American Scientist
Reversible computations—which can, in principle, be performed without giving off heat—may be the future of computing. Sigma Xi member Peter J. Denning, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and director of the Cebrowski Institute for information innovation at the Naval Postgraduate School, and Ted G. Lewis, cofounder of the Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School, explain this technology.
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American Scientist
Henry Petroski, the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University, reviews the infrastructure report card from the American Society of Civil Engineers. The report card evaluates 10 infrastructure categories including highways, water resources, and the national power grid. Petroski also examines possible ways to pay for improvements.
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R&D Magazine
Scientists took another step toward finding out whether life can exist on Mars after the recent discovery of boron on the planet. Researchers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory have identified boron—a key component to ribonucleic acid (RNA)—on Mars, giving new hope to whether life can be sustained on the red planet.
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UPI
New research suggests insects can see the world at a much finer resolution than previously thought. Until now, scientists assumed the compound eyes deployed by most insects offered only a low-resolution composite image of their surroundings. In contrast, human eyes feature a large, single lens and a large, densely packed photoreceptor capable of keeping objects in focus at varying distances and producing high-resolution images.
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Science Daily
Scientists have long deemed the ability to recognize faces innate for people and other primates—something our brains just know how to do immediately from birth. However, the findings of a new Harvard Medical School study published Sept. 4 in the journal Nature Neuroscience cast doubt on this longstanding view.
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