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Sigma Xi
Sigma Xi's Executive Director and CEO speaks for the greater science community to discuss the grave potential impact of Trump's proposed budget reduction in science-related spending on America's economy and overall health.
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Are you an experienced researcher looking to further your career abroad? The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme supports you on a stipend of EUR 3,150/month to conduct long-term research in Germany! Read More
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Sigma Xi
Sigma Xi is seeking professional researchers and science communicators to judge the Student Research Showcase, a science communication competition for high school, undergraduate, and graduate students. No travel is required. The judging period is April 3–10.
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Sigma Xi
Did you know that you can earn a free year of active Sigma Xi membership through the Member-Get-A-Member program? Simply nominate five qualified individuals for Sigma Xi membership during a one-year period. If they are approved to join, you can skip paying dues for a year!
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Sigma Xi
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 if you haven't yet. You can check if your dues are current and renew online.
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Public
Sarah J. Ewing has been named interim Dean of the Morosky College of Health Professions and Sciences at Gannon University effective January 2017 and will continue to serve for the 2017-2018 Academic Year. Ewing had served as the College's associate dean since July 2015. In service to her profession, she is a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science, the Council of Undergraduate Research, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Northwest PA Chapter of Sigma Xi - The Scientific Research Honor Society.
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Penn State
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Charles Godfrey Binder, professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State and winner of the 2016 Walston Chubb Award for Innovation, has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). RSA Fellows inspire, support and enable new solutions that address the social challenges, such as low educational attainment, social isolation, unemployment and climate change, of the 21st Century. Lakhtakia was selected for impacts of his research and his commitment to positive social change through innovative engineering.
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Miltech
Robert A. Wharton (1951-2012) once served as an executive officer for the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs. A former NASA Headquarters visiting senior scientist, he participated in 11 different #Antarctic expeditions, is a recipient of the United States Antarctic Service Medal and has served on the National Research Council's Polar Research Board. A member of Sigma Xi, Wharton served as the president of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Idaho State University (ISU).
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Sigma Xi
The Georgia Tech and CDC Chapters will host their first joint Science Café on Thursday, March 23 at 5:30 p.m. EDT at Papi's Cuban Grill at Emory Point. The Topic is "Challenges of Measles and Rubella Elimination: Development of a Novel Microneedle Patch to Make it Easier."
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Sigma Xi
 Join American Scientist for a Q&A on April 11, 3:30–4:30 p.m. EDT on how nanotechnology is being used in products for the public and to conserve the environment. The featured guest will be Alexander Orlov, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is also a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer.
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American Scientist
At the beginning of the 19th century, the great Romantic poet William Blake gave voice to the widely held view that the way to human progress and fulfillment lies not in reason and science, but rather in the development of our ability to contemplate the small wonders of the world that surround us and that we barely notice.
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American Scientist
One of the most exciting potential uses of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is scheduled to launch in 2018, is to hunt for habitable exoplanets — something that was beyond imagining at its inception. In the 1970s, no one even knew whether exoplanets existed.
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American Scientist
It may be an old adage that "the camera cannot lie," but as the above quotation demonstrates, even when photography was young in the late 1800s, it was widely acknowledged that an unusual play of the light or a glitch in the equipment could cause accidental or purposeful trick images, such as ghostly apparitions.
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Princeton News
A new study has modeled a crucial first step in the self-assembly of cellular structures such as drug receptors and other protein complexes, and found that the flexibility of the structures has a dramatic impact on how fast two such structures join together.
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography
For over a century scientists have been trying to understand what causes red tides to form in coastal areas seemingly out of nowhere. Using a novel technique developed by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, scientist George Sugihara and colleagues, that mystery is finally being unraveled.
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Science Friday
Bacteria are all around us — even in the atmosphere. Under the right wind conditions, air currents sweep up ultra-light microbes, which can drift as high as the stratosphere.
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American Geophysical Union
Hallo Glacier is one of the larger glaciers in Katmai National Park draining east from Mount Steller and ending in an expanding proglacial lake east of Hallo Bay.
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Space.com
Around the same time that the dinosaurs became extinct on Earth, a volcano on Mars went dormant, NASA researchers have learned. Arsia Mons is the southernmost volcano in a group of three massive Martian volcanoes known collectively as Tharsis Montes. Until now, the volcano's history has remained a mystery.
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The Associated Press via Fox News
The rusty patched bumblebee recently became the first officially endangered bee species in the continental U.S., overcoming objections from some business interests and a last-minute delay ordered by the Trump administration. One of many bee types that have suffered steep population declines, the rusty patched has disappeared from about 90 percent of its range in the past 20 years.
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Popular Mechanics
Around 4.3 billion years ago, a planetary blob of hot molten rock named Earth cooled just enough to start forming a crust. Billions of years later, humans evolved. And now, two of those humans have discovered that a chunk of that original crust is actually still around on the surface today.
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