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Sigma Xi
Pamela Kerrigan, the director of Sigma Xi's Northeast Region, encourages members to explore the online presentations by students who are participating April 11–18 in the Student Research Showcase, and to leave comments on their websites.
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Sigma Xi
Sigma Xi has been invited to join the 2016 ScienceDebate.org coalition to develop the top science, technology, health, and environmental questions that the candidates for president of the United States should be discussing. Please submit your question to the 2016 Presidential Science Forum.
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Sigma Xi
You can save 20 percent with early bird registration now through May 27 for the Society’s premier gathering of the year. The Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference will be held in Atlanta November 10–13. It features professional and student research presentations, keynote presentations by Sigma Xi’s award winners, and workshops or panels about critical issues in science such as mentorship, diversity, science policy, and science communication.
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National Institutes of Health
Michael Lauer, the National Institutes of Health’s deputy director for extramural research, announces a transformation to NIH's grants for a more user-friendly experience.
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Sigma Xi
Member Thorsen Wehr will represent Sigma Xi as a speaker in the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C. The festival is held to advance STEM education and inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers. Collectively, Sigma Xi and its magazine, American Scientist, sponsor the festival. Wehr, who published his research in Sigma Xi’s pre-college research journal Chronicle of The New Researcher, will be featured on April 14 in the festival’s X-STEM, a STEM symposium. He is currently a freshman at the University of Washington in Seattle and majoring in computer science.
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Sigma Xi
Sigma Xi chapters are nominating as many new members as they can through May 15 to take advantage of the Spring Membership Campaign’s awards, such as funds to support a chapter program. Help your chapter by nominating someone you know for Sigma Xi membership!
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Sigma Xi
Five Sigma Xi members have been named 2016 Goldwater Scholars. They will receive undergraduate scholarships that will cover the cost of tuition, fees, books, and room and board up to a maximum of $7,500 per year for one or two years. Three members received honorable mentions.
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Sigma Xi
Sigma Xi helped celebrate March as Women’s History Month by featuring the careers and advice of female members and a Distinguished Lecturer on the Society’s website and social media accounts. Thank you to Namandjé Bumpus of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; France Cόrdova of the National Science Foundation; Tessa Hill of the University of California, Davis; Jennifer Miksis-Olds of The Pennsylvania State University; and Omowunmi Sadik of Sate University of New York-Binghamton for participating in this project! The Society also held a Google Hangout about connecting girls with STEM and a Google Hangout about studies relating to gender bias in March.
Lehigh University
The Lehigh University Chapter in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, will host a lecture from 8:00–9:30 p.m. EDT on April 14 by Michael Mann titled “The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial is Threatening our Planet, Destroying our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy.” Mann is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Meteorology and director of the Earth System Science Center at The Pennsylvania State University.
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Sigma Xi
The University of Colorado Sigma Xi Chapter’s Annual Recognition and Award Ceremony will be held on April 18 from 4:30–6:00 p.m. MDT in Boulder, Colorado. It will feature a lecture by Joel Parker, a project manager and science team member of the New Horizons mission. His lecture is titled, “Pluto, Comets, and the Edge of the Solar System: Flying Along with the New Horizons and Rosetta Missions.”
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University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Sigma Xi Chapter will hold its 22nd Annual Research Exhibition by faculty, staff, and students on April 20 from 3:00–5:00 p.m. EDT and on April 21 from 10 a.m.–12:00 p.m. The exhibition includes a keynote talk on April 20 at 5:00 p.m. EDT by Vanni Bucci, an assistant professor in the university’s Department of Biology. His talk is titled, “Engineering Microbial Systems for the Prevention of Enteric Diseases.” Awards will be presented for the best posters by an undergraduate student and graduate student at 12:00 p.m. on April 21.
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Karen Bacula, a Marquette Senior High School biology teacher in Marquette, Michigan, has received the Northern Michigan University Sigma Xi Chapter’s High School Science and Math Teaching Award. She was given a plaque and a $100 gift certificate.
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Sigma Xi
What is the bacterial conversation and how can it be stopped to prevent infections from spreading? What are new strategies to curb bacterial infections? What’s the latest news on the bacterial resistance problem? Everyone is invited to learn about these topics in a Google Hangout on April 7 from 3:30–4:30 p.m. EDT. The hangout will be run in a Q & A format and feature Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer Herman Sintim. He is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Purdue University. This online event is supported by the University of South Dakota Chapter of Sigma Xi, who will host a public viewing of the hangout during the live broadcast. Bring your questions!
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American Scientist
In this podcast episode, American Scientist’s digital managing editor Robert Frederick spoke with Charles Nunn, a professor in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology and the Global Health Institute at Duke University, about the factors that may have influenced the evolution of both our unusual sleep and our sleep disorders.
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American Scientist
When most of us conjure up images of biodiversity, the southeastern United States rarely (if ever) comes to mind. People more often associate this region with vast agricultural lands filled with cotton and tobacco. However, like any good entomologist can tell you, amazing things can be found in unlikely places.
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American Scientist
Sociologist Ed Hackett studies the social structures and group dynamics within innovative scientific communities. In this Google Hangout, Hackett speaks with American Scientist’s digital features editor Katie L. Burke about the history and outcomes of social organization in science, and what that means for those who wish to cultivate an innovative scientific environment.
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Sigma Xi
Members are encouraged to volunteer as judges May 10–11 in Phoenix, Arizona, for Intel ISEF, the world’s largest international pre-college science competition. Sigma Xi judges pick the winners of the Society’s Team Science Awards, which recognize the best demonstrations of interdisciplinary research and team science.
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SciStarter
National Citizen Science Day, presented by the Citizen Science Association, kicks off on April 16 and runs through May 21, 2016. Hundreds of events will be held throughout the country, and you can find them on the SciStarter website.
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Science News
Sometimes forgetting can be harder than remembering. When people forced themselves to forget a recently seen image, select brain activity was higher than when they tried to remember that image.
Forgetting is often a passive process, one in which the memory slips out of the brain, Tracy Wang of The University of Texas at Austin said at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. But in some cases, forgetting can be deliberate.
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The Christian Science Monitor
Use of the phrase "going south for the winter" may soon dwindle, along with disadvantaged southern bird populations.
Research published in the journal Science shows a far-reaching link between climate change and bird populations in the United States and Europe. The findings suggest certain bird species did significantly better over a 30-year period than others.
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Science Alert
Researchers have just discovered evidence of a mysterious new state of matter in a real material. The state is known as 'quantum spin liquid' and it causes electrons — one of the fundamental, indivisible building blocks of matter — to break down into smaller quasiparticles.
Scientists had first predicted the existence of this state of matter in certain magnetic materials 40 years ago, but despite multiple hints of its existence, they've never been able to detect evidence of it in nature.
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The Washington Post
A tall, heavy beast with long, forward-curving horns faced down a smaller bull. Its head was held high as if in challenge. The smaller animal seemed to recoil in submission. Even the cave lion, the largest of predators, looked unlikely to challenge the dominant bull. Behind them a herd of giant deer ran from unseen danger.
This scene was depicted in a painting on a cavern wall at Lascaux, France, 17,000 years ago. Megaloceros, the giant deer in the background, are extinct. The cave lion is extinct.
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