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Sigma Xi
Sigma Xi Executive Director and CEO John Nemeth sent a letter to President Trump on Jan. 26 to raise a concern over restrictions that were placed on federal agencies.
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Are you a postdoc looking to further your research abroad? The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme supports you on a stipend of EUR 2,650/month to conduct long-term research in Germany! Read more
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Sigma Xi
 Sigma Xi Executive Director and CEO John Nemeth called on President Donald J. Trump on Feb. 1 to rescind the executive order that temporarily restricts citizens of seven countries from entering the United States.
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Sigma Xi is partnering with the March for Science, an event that will bring scientists and science advocates to Washington, D.C., on April 22. Sister marches are also being planned for cities across the country and around the world.
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 March 15 is the deadline for students to apply for a grant from the Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research program. Undergraduate and graduate students from anywhere in the world are eligible to apply.
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The Student Research Showcase is a unique opportunity for high school, undergraduate and graduate students to develop effective science communication skills. The deadline to submit a project description and register is Feb. 22.
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Sigma Xi members are invited to share their research topic and pictures of themselves on social media using #actuallivingscientist. The posts are helping people see the type of work scientists do, and to find people in their networks who are scientists.
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Thank you to all members who already paid their membership dues and to affiliates who renewed their status. It’s not too late to pay dues for 2016–2017 if you haven’t yet. You can check if your dues are current and renew your membership online.
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The International Association of HealthCare Professionals is pleased to welcome Fredrick A. McCurdy to their organization with his upcoming publication in The Leading Physicians of the World. McCurdy is a physician who has expertise in the care of children with genitourinary complaints.
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Sigma Xi
Eric Loren Nelson, an educator, scientist and entrepreneur who was a pioneer in the field of drug discovery and long-time, major contributor to the University of California, Irvine died at the age of 91.
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Fairfield University College of Arts & Sciences via Facebook
The Fairfield University Chapter in Fairfield, Connecticut, co-sponsored a seminar on Feb. 1 featuring Anita Sanz of the University of Havana in Cuba. The talk was titled, "Gonad Morphology Analysis as a Criterion of Conservation in Cuban Vertebrates."
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 Join American Scientist for an Adobe Connect session on Feb. 14 from 1–2 p.m. EST with Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer and weather scientist Lance Bosart. A Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at the University of Albany, State University of New York, Bosart will take questions from the audience during this live Q & A.
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American Scientist
 Lisa Hayward, a climate science communicator at the University of Washington, describes the potential destructiveness of President Trump's current freeze on the Environmental Protection Agency’s funding for science, and recommends actions to advance environmental science in the face of administrative obstruction.
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American Scientist
Sandra J. Ackerman, a contributing editor to American Scientist, describes new techniques for determining the age of fossils and sediments that are providing insights into human origins.
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American Scientist
The use of beneficial microbes holds promise for public health and food production, but has trade-offs that are not yet fully understood. Assistant professors of biology at Gettysburg College Ryan Kerney and Zakiya Whatley, undergraduate biology student Sarah Rivera, and Academy of Natural Sciences research associate David Hewitt explain.
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National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation Director and Sigma Xi member France A. Cόrdova describes the NSF-supported research taking place in the most challenging environment on Earth.
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Council of Graduate Schools
Participants from 11 countries convened in Brazil during November of 2016 to consider the definitions and delivery of doctoral education. The attendees developed a statement of practical actions as guidance for graduate institutions seeking to better prepare themselves and their students for the evolving doctorate. The online proceedings and practical actions are now available.
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National Institutes of Health
Michael Lauer, the National Institutes of Health's deputy director for extramural research, shares the agency's annual web reports, success rates of grant applications, and the NIH Data Book.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
The U.S. Agency for International Development should speed its transformation into a global leader and catalyst in applying science, technology, and innovation to the challenges facing developing countries, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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Phys.Org
The growth of bacteria can be stimulated by antibiotics, scientists at the University of Exeter have discovered. The EPSRC-funded researchers exposed E.coli bacteria to eight rounds of antibiotic treatment over four days and found the bug — which can cause severe stomach pain, diarrhea and kidney failure in humans — had increased antibiotic resistance with each treatment.
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National Public Radio
Plants that feed on flesh have fascinated scientists going all the way back to Charles Darwin, and researchers now have new insight into how these meat-eaters evolved. Even plants that evolved continents away from one another rely on strikingly similar tricks to digest their prey. "The pathways to evolving a carnivorous plant, and in particular, to a pitcher plant, may be very restricted," says Victor Albert, a biologist at the University at Buffalo.
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Science Daily
Treated particles of graphene derived from carbon nanotubes have demonstrated remarkable potential as life-saving antioxidants, but as small as they are, something even smaller had to be created to figure out why they work so well. Researchers have created single-molecule compounds that also quench damaging reactive oxygen species but are far easier to analyze using standard scientific tools.
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