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Sigma Xi
 March for Science, a global event to promote robustly funded and publicly communicated scientific research, returns on April 14. Executive Director and CEO Jamie L. Vernon encouraged members, affiliates, and explorers to join their local March for Science events.
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Did you have an incredible science or engineering professor? Nominate that person for the Monie A. Ferst Award. The Georgia Institute of Technology Sigma Xi Chapter is seeking nominations for an outstanding educator to receive a $10,000 prize and a symposium featuring the accomplishments of his or her former students. Nominations are due April 1.
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Students who registered for the Student Research Showcase, an online science presentation competition, have through March 26 to submit presentations. Students will submit websites containing an abstract, slideshow, and video about their research projects. Nonstudent members are invited to judge the online competition April 16–April 30.
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If you haven't already, it's time to renew your membership or affiliate status for Fiscal Year 2018. 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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Sigma Xi
 Member Jui Dave and her colleague Daniel Greif at Yale University led a study that provides insights into the development of neonatal brain hemorrhage, and broadens the scope of therapeutic intervention. The findings are likely to shed light on other brain disorders, such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, and aneurysms.
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The University of New Mexico Sigma Xi Chapter invites the public to a March 22 lecture on campus. Matthew J. Reno, senior engineer in the Electric Power Systems Research Department at Sandia National Laboratories, will discuss how rooftop solar panels are affecting the electric power grid. READ MORE
Chapter leaders: Add your events to your community's calendars at community.sigmaxi.org/events/calendar.
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Members can save 20 percent on registration to the 9th International Conference on Ethics in Biology, Engineering, and Medicine by using promo code ICEBEM20SXI. The conference takes place April 14–15 and is presented by the Biomedical Engineering Department at Florida International University in Miami. For more details, contact icebem@fiu.edu.
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Because of advances in technology, data can be collected and aggregated at an ever-increasing pace, but the resulting data load can be too large to handle by standard methods. Sigma Xi's 2018 Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference October 25–28 in Burlingame, California, will explore how big data will affect the future of research in biology and medicine; physics and astronomy; and energy, climate, and the environment.
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American Scientist
Public dialogue about new gene-editing technology will require major investments from scientists, journalists, and philanthropists. Matthew Nisbet, professor of communication, public policy, and urban affairs at Northeastern University, explains.
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American Scientist
Contrary to popular belief, Sigma Xi member Albert Einstein was not the first to conceive of gravitational waves—but he was, eventually, the first to get the concept right. Tony Rothman, who teaches in the applied physics department at New York University, provides historical context.
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R&D Magazine
In research described March 14 in Nature, scientists at Rockefeller University and their colleagues have delineated the architecture of the nuclear pore complex in yeast cells. The biological blueprint they uncovered shares principles sometimes seen on a much larger scale in concrete, steel, and wire.
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Science News
Dramatic shifts in the East African climate may have driven toolmaking advances and the development of trading networks among Homo sapiens or their close relatives by the Middle Stone Age, roughly 320,000 years ago. That's the implication of discoveries reported in three papers published online March 15 in Science.
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