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Frank Dane, director of Sigma Xi's Mid-Atlantic Region, offers a list of five key ingredients for successful Society leadership. All members are invited to nominate a fellow member by June 30 to run as a candidate in the Society’s 2020 elections. Self-nominations are welcome.
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Student researchers in high school through graduate school who planned to present a poster or give a talk at a conference that was canceled due to COVID-19 have a new option: Sigma Xi's Virtual Student Scholars Symposium (VS³). The event will also include career preparation sessions and monetary awards. Students are invited to submit an abstract by April 17.
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In this interview recorded on March 20, 2020, science communicator Brian Malow asks food safety expert Benjamin Chapman about the effects of heating and freezing food on viruses and other food-borne pathogens. Chapman also recommends using hand sanitizers and disinfectants. He is a professor of food safety and a food safety Extension specialist at North Carolina State University. WATCH NOW
You represent Sigma Xi's principles of excellence and integrity in your community, and that is critical during this time of a public health crisis. Members, affiliates, and explorers can be ambassadors for science and research in their communities by sharing evidence-based resources, such as those from the Sigma Xi COVID-19 Preparedness Kit. Stay connected to Sigma Xi by renewing your dues. Thank you to those who already renewed.
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Students who plan to participate in the Student Research Showcase can get tips for building their presentations from Sigma Xi member Amrita Dosanjh, a pediatrician and pulmonologist who has been one of the judges for the online science communication competition for multiple years. Dosanjh was a guest speaker on a Zoom meeting with presenters to share her advice and insights before judging kicks off on April 27.
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Ohio University's students shared their research on social media, tagging #OUSigmaXi and other campus groups on Twitter, in lieu of their scheduled in-person event. Similarly, the Fairfield University Innovative Research Symposium is moving online on April 23 for virtual student research presentations. Let's give them support!
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Due to disruptions caused by COVID-19 to schools, the Annual Meeting Program Committee has extended the abstract deadline to May 1 for student oral presentations that will take place during the meeting’s Student Research Conference. The poster presentation abstract deadline remains October 1.
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Zeynep Yilmaz of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill does large population studies that tease out the ways that anorexia can be a genetic, and not just a psychological, disorder. Science communicator Brian Malow (@sciencecomedian) asked her about her research after she gave a talk over Zoom for the Research Triangle Park Sigma Xi Chapter and Science Communicators of North Carolina on April 7.
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Non-student members are invited to sign up to judge research presentations online from April 27 through May 9 for the Student Research Showcase. This virtual competition challenges students in high school through graduate school to create an abstract, slideshow, and video about their research projects.
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American Scientist
Everyone is concerned about spreading the novel coronavirus, but what variables actually affect its survival?
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American Scientist
It is hard to imagine a more ambitious topic for a single book than the phenomenon of growth, particularly when it is applied to such a wide range of systems as single-celled organisms, more complex forms of life, crops, domesticated animals, and humans. But Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities does not stop there. It examines the vast array of human-made artifacts, including tools, structures, modes of transport, housing, infrastructures, and electronics.
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The third major policy response from the United States Congress and the president, this 335-page bill significantly increased government spending on actions designed to stem the disease, provide more healthcare supplies, and help affected sectors of the economy.
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In a recent order, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provided leeway for power plants and other facilities subject to statutory or court-ordered pollution control or air and water quality monitoring and maintenance requirements during the pandemic.
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Privacy legislation has been given much attention in the 116th U.S. Congress (2019-2020). Multiple bills propose to update the current legal framework that dates back to the late 1990s to early 2000s, a time when social media platforms were still on the rise. These proposals teach us a few lessons on envisioned progress on privacy regulation, and its shortcomings.
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University of Leeds via ScienceDaily
Scientists have developed a technique that could significantly reduce the time of discovering potential new antibody-based drugs to treat disease.
Antibodies are produced by the body in response to the presence of a disease-causing agent. They can also be synthesized in the laboratory to mimic natural antibodies and are used to treat a number of diseases.
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Science News
It's not every day an element gets added to the periodic table. The last time it happened was 2016, when four new elements became official.
For these elements, reaching the table was an epic quest spanning more than a decade. It required rare radioactive ingredients, violent atom smashing, painstaking detection, a mountain of paperwork and a fair amount of waiting before the elements became undisputed champions. But in the end, the newcomers made it into the canon that governs chemistry, filling out the periodic table's seventh row.
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