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Sigma Xi
 President Tee Guidotti completes his one-year term as the Society's president on June 30. "Your Society has executed one of the most impressive turnarounds that I have ever witnessed in a professional society," he wrote. "...It is up to future leaders and an informed membership to keep it on that path." Guidotti will serve a one-year term as past president.
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The Sofia Kovalevskaja Award allows scientists and scholars from all countries and disciplines who completed their doctorates with distinction less than 6 years ago to conduct research in Germany. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation particularly welcomes applications from qualified, female junior researchers.
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 The Society will offer a bus and group hotel rate to members and the public interested in traveling to Charleston, South Carolina, August 20–21 to see the total solar eclipse. More details will be available soon. (Photo by Luc Viatour / www.Lucnix.be)
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Sigma Xi's Grants-in-Aid of Research program recently awarded $120,354 to 150 undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students. Thank you to those who reviewed the grant applications. The application form will be posted online by July 1 for the next grant cycle and the submission deadline will be Oct. 1.
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 Father's Day is June 18. Please support Sigma Xi when you log in to Amazon using AmazonSmile.
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Now is the time to renew membership for FY2018. You can check if your dues are current and renew your membership online. Thank you to all members who already paid their membership dues and to affiliates who renewed their status.
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 Sigma Xi Treasurer David Baker has received the Captains of Industry Award from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). IISE's Captains of Industry Award honors leaders in business, industry and government.
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 Thirteen new Sigma Xi members were recently inducted from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the UNT Health Science Center in Fort Worth, Texas.
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North Carolina State University
Member Erik Santiso, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University, has been awarded the 2017 Faculty Research Award by the NCSU Chapter. His research group focuses on computer-based discovery of materials and chemicals using modeling techniques, metaheuristic sampling, and machine learning methods.
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 Save 20 percent on registration for Sigma Xi's Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry, Climate, and Health and Student Research Conference when you sign up by 11:59 p.m. PDT on June 16.
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Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturers answered questions from American Scientist editors and the public in a series of online, Q & A sessions. They discussed a variety of topics including particle physics, modern weather forecasting, and gender equity in research disciplines. Check out the recordings on the Sigma Xi website.
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American Scientist
The existence of dark matter and dark energy has gained acceptance through a variety of complementary cosmological research methods. Retired particle physicist Pauline Gagnon explains how we know that this dark matter really exists.
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American Scientist
 Yigit Mengüç, an assistant professor of robotics and mechanical engineering at Oregon State University, explains that building robots that are entirely soft requires the development of new components from valves to circuits, as well as ways to control deformable arms.
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American Scientist
The Russian government is counting on young scientists to stimulate the economy through applied research, reports American Scientist's editor-in-chief Jamie Vernon.
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National Institutes of Health
Learning which projects the National Institutes of Health supports provides researchers valuable insight as they consider developing their own research programs and applications for funding.
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National Science Foundation
France A. Cόrdova, National Science Foundation director and Sigma Xi member, requested $6.65 billion in its fiscal year 2018 budget.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Assistive products and technologies hold promise for mitigating the effects of impairments and enabling people with disabilities to work, but in some cases environmental and personal factors create additional barriers to employment, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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Phys.Org
John Innes Centre scientists are among an international team who have discovered a new class of compounds that target bacteria in a unique way. The team has reported that the new class of compounds inhibit bacterial DNA gyrase and show activity against some drug-resistant strains in the laboratory. The research was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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R&D Magazine
An EPFL study has for the first time measured the impact of climate change on alpine streams, and the results are quite worrying: after a low-snow winter, these streams release more carbon dioxide than they absorb. Numerous researchers are looking at the impact of climate change on the Alps. And one of the most obvious effects is the low snowfall observed in recent years.
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Neuroscience News
The artificial intelligence that can blow human pilots out of the sky in air-to-air combat accurately predicted treatment outcomes for bipolar disorder, according to a new medical study by the University of Cincinnati.
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