Member Deirdre J. Collins has been selected to be Bermuda's 2018 Rhodes Scholar. The scholarship covers university and college fees and a stipend of living expenses for two or three years of study at University of Oxford. She is interested in the master of philosophy program...
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Oil drilling 1,500 meters under the sea is complicated, and the Deepwater Horizon disaster still offers valuable lessons. The issue is especially important now because the Department of Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement released revised regulations...
source: American Scientist
The popular claim that drug addiction is a brain disease lacks evidence and leads to poor policy. Marc Grifell, a physician completing his psychiatry residency, and Carl L. Hart, chair of the Department of Psychology at Columbia University, teamed up to reexamine the prevailing...
source: American Scientist
Save 20 percent on registration to the Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference that will be held on October 25–28 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport in California. This year's meeting will feature symposia...
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Sigma Xi members and staff are at the Intel International...
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The Ohio State University Chapter brings people from across campus together with their Suds n' Science events, in which a research group of Sigma Xi members present their work and guide a tour of their facilities. After the tour, the host group and tour participants head...
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It's time to renew your membership or affiliate status for fiscal year (FY) 2019. You can check if your dues are current and renew online. You may concurrently renew for FY2018 and receive all back issues of American Scientist since July 1, 2017. Thank you to members and...
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Congratulations to three chapters that have been selected to receive grants to improve research programming in their communities. The Rush University Chapter has received Sigma Xi's Diversity Grant, whereas the Southern Illinois University–Carbondale Chapter and State...
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Congratulations to the high school, undergraduate, and graduate students who participated in the 2018 Student...
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Sigma Xi's new quarterly conversation invites members, affiliates, and...
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Biochemists at the University of Illinois have isolated a protein supercomplex from a bacterial membrane that, like a battery, generates a voltage across the bacterial membrane. The voltage is used to make ATP, a key energy currency...
source: Phys.Org
Using self-assembling peptides, bioengineers have created scaffolds that can be used in tissue engineering and biomedicine. Amino acids are groups of carbon atoms that have an amine group at one end, an acidic group at the other and...
source: News-Medical
Member Fred M. Johnson, an emeritus professor of physics at California State University, Fullerton, has produced research that suggests all planets and celestial objects have a similar mode of energy production. His paper proposes a...
source: Sigma Xi
Oil drilling 1,500 meters under the sea is complicated, and the Deepwater Horizon still offers valuable lessons. The issue is especially important now because the Department of Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement released revised regulations last week,...
source: American Scientist
The popular claim that drug addiction is a brain disease lacks evidence and leads to poor policy. Marc Grifell, a physician completing his psychiatry residency, and Carl L. Hart, chair of the Department of Psychology at Columbia University, teamed up to reexamine the prevailing...
source: American Scientist
