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Sigma Xi
Nominations for who will be on the ballot this fall for Sigma Xi's Elections are due today to elections@sigmaxi.org. Self-nominations are welcome. The elections include positions for president-elect, directors, associate directors, and members on the Committee on Nominations.
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Saint Mary's College
The data science program at Saint Mary’s College gives graduate students like Masa Gumiro the opportunity to directly experience the work of a data scientist through the practicum project. Before he graduated, Masa’s practicum project won a national competition, earned him financial awards, and secured new professional opportunities.
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Sigma Xi
Mark November 17 on your calendar for the first Sigma Xi STEM Art and Film Festival, where we will celebrate the intersection of art and film with science, technology, engineering, and math. The festival will be open to the public with free admission as the final event of the Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference in Madison, Wisconsin. Information about how to exhibit your artwork or film is coming soon!
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Sigma Xi
The judging period for the Student Research Showcase, an online competition, has been extended to May 6. In the meantime, everyone can view the students' presentations and leave encouraging comments on their websites. Top presenters will be announced on May 10, the same day that voting will open for the $250 People's Choice Award to select the presenter with the best video. The People's Choice Award winner will be announced on May 20.
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Sigma Xi
Reviewers met in Raleigh, North Carolina, April 26–27 to evaluate and rank students' applications to the Grants in Aid of Research program. Funding decisions will be announced in mid-May. Good luck to all of the applicants! The next application deadline will be October 1.
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Sigma Xi
Take a moment to check if your dues are current for fiscal year 2019 (July 1, 2018–June 30, 2019). You can easily renew online if your dues have expired. Members who renew will receive all issues of American Scientist that were missed since July 2018, including the special issue on big data in astrophysics. Thank you to members, affiliates, and explorers who already renewed.
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University of Oregon
Sigma Xi President-elect Geri Richmond has won Oregon State University's Linus Pauling Legacy Award. She will give a talk at OSU’s Valley Library on May 22 on "The Importance of Scientific Engagement." Richmond is a chemist and the Presidential Chair in Science at University of Oregon. She won the National Medal of Science in 2013. She becomes Sigma Xi’s president on July 1.
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Chapters Host Student Research Events
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Sigma Xi
Sigma Xi chapters across the country have been hosting events that support student researchers. Students displayed posters about their projects at Jefferson in Philadelphia, University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth, in northwestern Pennsylvania, and at the Northeast Regional Sigma Xi Conference at Quinnipiac University, while a middle school science fair was held in West Virginia thanks in part to the Greenbrier Valley Chapter. And, the Ohio State University Chapter, Fordham University Chapter, and University of South Florida Chapter held induction ceremonies.
Sigma Xi
We want to see you at the Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference November 14–17 in Madison, Wisconsin. Members, affiliates, and explorers receive special registration rates and everyone saves 20 percent through July 14! The agenda includes chapter development sessions; workshops, panel discussions, and lectures about our changing global environment; symposia on science communication, research ethics, and professional development; student research presentation competitions; and the first Sigma Xi STEM Art and Film Festival.
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Why do some people become addicted to drugs while others can stop at recreational use? Nicole Schramm-Sapyta, assistant professor of the practice and chief operating officer of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, presented a Sigma Xi talk on April 30 in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, about the biological, psychological, and social factors of addiction. The presentation was streamed on Facebook Live.
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American Scientist
Languages from all over the world seem to have developed the same sound to indicate confusion and to initiate conversation repair, writes N. J. Enfield, a professor of linguistics at the University of Sydney.
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American Scientist
Getting to the Moon required daring programmers as well as daring astronauts. Brian Hayes, a senior writer for American Scientist, explains how Neil Armstrong's small step for a man also marked a giant leap for digital computing technology.
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National Science Foundation
In her April letter, National Science Foundation (NSF) director and Sigma Xi member France A. Cordova, who has served as the chief scientist at NASA, gives her reaction to the first image of a black hole that was announced last month. NSF directly funded more than $28 million in Event Horizon Telescope research, the project that made the image possible.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have joined with over 40 colleges, universities, and research institutions to launch an Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education. The purpose of the action collaborative is to bring together academic leaders and key stakeholders to prevent sexual harassment across all disciplines and among all people in higher education.
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Science News
Beleaguered populations of green sea turtles living in and around Hawaii and American Pacific island territories are increasing in number. From 2002 to 2015, scuba diving researchers circumnavigated 53 islands, atolls, and coral reefs throughout the U.S. Pacific, conducting the first comprehensive survey in that region of the turtles' ocean habitats. Over the 13 years, the divers counted more than 3,400 sea turtles.
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R&D Magazine
The human body is held together by an intricate cable system of tendons and muscles, engineered by nature to be tough and highly stretchable. An injury to any of these tissues, particularly in a major joint like the shoulder or knee, can require surgical repairs and weeks of limited mobility to fully heal. Now MIT engineers have come up with a tissue engineering design that may enable flexible range of motion in injured tendons and muscles during healing.
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