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Sigma Xi
Executive Director and CEO Jamie Vernon details the research community's work on the front lines of mitigating the impact of COVID-19, and calls on Sigma Xi members to be ambassadors for science in their communities.
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Sigma Xi and The Dana Foundation
Brain Awareness Week, from March 16–March 22, is a global campaign to foster public enthusiasm and support for brain science. Dana Foundation, which coordinates the campaign, has handouts and resources for educators, kids, and adults about the brain. Also, mark your calendars for November 5-8 for the Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference in Alexandria, Virginia, where the theme will be Hacking the Brain: The Intersection of Art and Neuroscience.
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Sigma Xi
April 1 is the nomination deadline for Sigma Xi's Monie A. Ferst Award, which honors science and engineering teachers who have inspired their students to significant research achievements. The award consists of $10,000, a day-long symposium focusing on the achievements of the winner's former students, and a medal. The Georgia Institute of Technology Chapter sponsors the award.
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7thSpace
Three Sigma Xi members at Duke University—graduate student Alex Davis and professors Sönke Johnsen and Fred Nijhout—published a study in the March 10 issue of Nature Communications about naturally occurring ultra-black materials in butterflies.
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The Florida International University Chapter in Miami inducted 19 new members on March 11 during its Annual Meeting. Three chapter members gave presentations.
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Sigma Xi
Thank you to everyone who voted for the t-shirt designs that were submitted for our November meeting in Alexandria, Virginia. The winning design was announced on Pi Day, March 14!
The winning student designer is Anam Ahmed, an undergraduate student at the University of Miami, who won a free conference registration. See the announcement.
Sigma Xi
The Annual Meeting Program Committee invites submissions for professional research presentations, panel discussions, workshops, or symposia. This year's conference in November will examine emerging trends and challenges across interdisciplinary research, especially art and science collaborations.
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American Scientist
Institutional context and history have led to top-down knowledge dissemination. Would infrastructure for public engagement help science lead to mobilization?
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American Scientist
One hundred years ago, William D. Coolidge coaxed tungsten into filaments, illuminating incandescent light bulbs—and the world.
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Duke SciPol.org
Under the new law, various federal agencies will receive $7.8 billion for activities like developing a vaccine, limiting health worker exposure, and providing loans to small businesses. The final $500 million will expand telehealth as a method for treating the coronavirus disease for Medicare recipients.
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Duke SciPol.org
In response to civil rights concerns over facial recognition technology, senators proposed a bill to temporarily halt its deployment until legal safeguards are in place, a process that the bill tries to accelerate.
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Scripps Research Institute via ScienceDaily
The novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that emerged in the city of Wuhan, China, last year and has since caused a large scale COVID-19 epidemic and spread to more than 70 other countries is the product of natural evolution, according to findings published in the journal Nature Medicine.
The analysis of public genome sequence data from SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses found no evidence that the virus was made in a laboratory or otherwise engineered.
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Science News
Creeping tendrils of slime seem to mirror the structure of the universe's enormous filaments. That superficial similarity, in an organism called a slime mold, helped scientists map out the cosmic web, the vast threads of matter that connect galaxies.
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