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Sigma Xi
 Sigma Xi President Stuart Cooper encourages members to extend the honor of nomination to peers and students to support the Society's future of having a robust and active membership.
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Sigma Xi
How will you excel in the new era of big data? The Sigma Xi 2018 Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference on October 25–28 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport in California will share lessons from researchers who have blazed the path of using big data, and bring together a multidisciplinary group of elite thinkers who are connected through a shared interest in big data and research. The meeting will feature sessions on the applications, methodologies, and ethics of big data across disciplines. Register today and save 20 percent with early-bird rates.
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Sigma Xi
 Sigma Xi unveiled six new names in its Hall of Honor on April 20, adding members who won the Nobel Prize since 2014. The highlight of the event was a live teleconference with one of the Nobel laureates.
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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. You will also receive all back issues of American Scientist since July 1, 2017. Thank you to all members and affiliates who have already renewed.
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Sigma Xi
 Member and Howard University doctoral candidate Carter Clinton received a grant from Sigma Xi to investigate the African Burial Ground in New York City to piece together clues from the past.
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The Southern Illinois University–Carbondale Chapter held a student poster competition on April 9 that featured a range of research topics, from parasites in bobcats to traumatic brain injury. The chapter's subcommittee in photography and documentation—Audreyana Jagger, Jennica Young, and Juliet Fitzgibbon—have shared a recap of their event. READ MORE
Chapter leaders: Add your events to your community's calendars so they can be displayed at community.sigmaxi.org/events/calendar.
Sigma Xi
The world's largest international precollege science competition is coming to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Sigma Xi is looking for qualified members in the area to volunteer as judges on May 15–16. Sigma Xi judges will select the life science and physical science projects that best demonstrate teamwork. These winning projects will receive a total of $6,000 from Sigma Xi's Special Awards in Team Science. The awards are based on teamwork to reflect Sigma Xi’s purpose of bringing together scientists and engineers from all disciplines and encouraging collaborations. Judges are invited to return on May 17 for the awards presentation.
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Confirmed speakers for Sigma Xi's Annual Meeting symposia about Big Data and the Future of Research on October 25–28 at Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport in California represent Google, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and more. See the list of speakers.
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American Scientist
There are a lot of ways to give a scientific talk, but have you ever seen one with live musical accompaniment? Robert Frederick, digital managing editor for American Scientist, tells the story of how a zoologist and a composer are combining efforts to draw people in.
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American Scientist
It may be easy to isolate little flakes of this one-atom-thick carbon material, but it's surprisingly difficult to produce large sheets for commercial use, explains Les Johnson, a physicist at NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, and Joseph E. Meany, a materials scientist and chemistry blogger.
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| RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND GOVERNMENT NEWS |
American Institute of Physics
The American Institute of Physics TEAM-UP Task Force invites African American undergraduate students to complete a survey to help the physics community explore ways to better support them. The survey's target audience is those who are majoring in physics and astronomy, or who formerly majored or intended to major in those areas and then transferred to another major.
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National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation Director France A. Cόrdova, a Sigma Xi member, shares how funding for the foundation in the federal government's fiscal year 2018 budget and in the president's fiscal year 2019 budget request will support the foundation's success, and how it would use the fiscal year 2019 dollars to invest in its 10 Big Ideas.
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Science Daily
Telomerase, because of its role in cancer and aging, has long been a target of drug companies who want to block it to stop the uncontrolled cell growth characteristic of cancer, or boost it to create a fountain of youth. The structure of the enzyme complex has been a mystery, however, until now. Scientists have finally obtained a detailed picture of the architecture of the RNA-protein complex, a breakthrough for drug design.
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R&D Magazine
Using high-powered laser beams, researchers have simulated conditions inside a planet three times as large as Earth. Scientists have identified more than 2,000 of these "super-Earths," exoplanets that are larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, the next-largest planet in our solar system. By studying how iron and silicon alloys respond to extraordinary pressures, scientists are gaining new insights into the nature of super-Earths.
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