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Sigma Xi
There is considerable buzz about mentorship in science, technology, engineering, and math. Departments are assigning new hires a more senior staff or faculty member, students are encouraged to find a mentor for career advice, and funding agencies increasingly require a mentorship plan for graduate students and postdocs involved in a proposed funding project. What factors contribute to effective mentorship? President Geraldine Richmond shares her insight.
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Effective science communication is important for a thriving research enterprise. Sigma Xi helps students in high school through graduate school develop communication skills through research presentation competitions. Students may submit a research abstract by March 6 to participate in an online competition, the Student Research Showcase. Participants create a website, slideshow, and video about their projects and get feedback from judges during the evaluation period. Prizes of up to $1,000 are awarded to top presenters and the People's Choice presentation.
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The Society's Grants in Aid of Research program awarded 95 students with research grants in the fall 2019 funding cycle. Collectively, undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students received $99,811.
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You can use our easy online renewal form if you haven’t already done so. Members, affiliates, and explorers who renew now will receive missed issues of American Scientist since July 2019. Continue the honor, renew today! Thank you to those who already renewed.
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Sigma Xi
Let your fellow Sigma Xi members know that you recognize their exceptional work for the Society and for the research enterprise by nominating them for the inaugural cohort of Sigma Xi Fellows. The nomination deadline is February 1.
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Oakland University
Sixteen students from Oakland University in Michigan traveled to Wisconsin in November to present their research at the Sigma Xi Student Research Conference. Five of the participants received awards as top presenters. The chapter, mentors, and university president Ora Hirsch Pescovitz recognized the students’ accomplishments.
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Sigma Xi's 121st Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference will be held November 5–8, 2020, in Alexandria, Virginia. Our theme, Hacking the Brain: The Intersection of Art and Neuroscience, will include sessions about the integration of arts and humanities in STEM education and research, the benefits of integrative approaches, evaluation strategies and success stories, collaborations between artistic processes and the scientific method, and so much more. Registration is open. Take advantage of the early bird discount now!
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American Scientist
To answer the question of whether the fundamental building blocks of reality are particles, fields, or both, we must think beyond physics.
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American Scientist
The ancient grass's enzymatic toolbox makes it ideal for beer making.
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Duke SciPol.org
At the end of November, the MORE Act became the first marijuana legalization bill to pass out of committee. The MORE Act would completely remove marijuana and THC from drug schedules, tax all cannabis products produced in or imported into states that have legalized marijuana, and establish a trust fund to help communities disenfranchised by previous cannabis-related convictions. While this is the first decriminalization bill to make it out of committee, it still needs to pass both the House and the Senate before it becomes law.
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Duke SciPol.org
In late December, the House unanimously passed the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act, which would prevent telecommunications companies from using government grants to buy equipment from companies deemed to be "national security risks," such as the Chinese company Huawei. The bill, now in the Senate, would also award grants to small telecommunications companies to replace any previously-installed equipment from these national security risk companies.
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AAS Job Register
The newly formed Earth Futures Group (EFG) at the University of California Riverside (UCR) invites applications for the first Earth Futures Fellow to help found a path-breaking multidisciplinary center to study the future of Earth on cosmic time. The Fellow will play a major role in setting the course of the new institute and will engage with a broad range of disciplines from the physical and biological sciences to the social sciences, arts, and humanities.
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USA Science & Engineering Festival
This coming April will be the 10-year anniversary of the USA Science & Engineering Festival, the nation's largest celebration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). With the theme Vision for STEM at the 2020 event, the festival organizers are seeking companies, government agencies, universities, and other non-profits dedicated to inspiring the next generation of innovators! Read 10 reasons why your organization should join Sigma Xi in supporting their mission. By investing in STEM, you are investing in the future.
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ESO via ScienceDaily
Astronomers have observed reservoirs of cool gas around some of the earliest galaxies in the universe. These gas halos are the perfect food for supermassive black holes at the center of these galaxies, which are now seen as they were over 12.5 billion years ago. This food storage might explain how these cosmic monsters grew so fast during a period in the universe's history known as the Cosmic Dawn.
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Science News
The early arrival of spring is often cause for celebration in northern climates. But it may come at the cost of drier, hotter days in some areas in summer.
As winter wanes and leaves start to peek out from branches, trees increasingly draw water from the soil and move it into the sky—a process known as evapotranspiration. But when this greening starts earlier in the calendar year, scientists worry that more moisture could be sucked from the soil than if the season starts later.
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