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Geraldine Richmond of the University of Oregon will take the helm of Sigma Xi as president on July 1. She shares the areas she plans to focus on in the coming year.
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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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More than 1,100 students applied for research funding in the spring application cycle of the Sigma Xi Grants in Aid of Research program. Congratulations to the 143 students who are latest group to receive Sigma Xi grants, based on evaluations by the Committee on Grants in Aid of Research and guest reviewers.
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Attendees at the 2019 Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference will hear a personal, recorded message from Gordon Moore, cofounder of Intel, who has received Sigma Xi’s highest award.
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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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A Sigma Xi member has received a graduate fellowship from the engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi.
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It was a full house on Monday night when the Sigma Xi chapters from the University of Maryland and the Food and Drug Administration teamed up with a science college at the University of Maryland to host a public lecture on the science of whiskey. The lecturer was Texas Christian University’s Eric Simanek, a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer.
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In addition to great content and distinguished speakers, a new reason to attend the Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference is you can have professional headshots taken. This service is included in your registration.
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The deadline to submit art and films to the first Sigma Xi STEM Art and Film Festival is July 15. Submissions are open to all art or films that portray the beauty of science, communicate abstract principles, and depict scientific discoveries and phenomena. The festival will be a free event to deliver on Sigma Xi’s mission to promote the public understanding of science.
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Multiple motivations prompt students to organize ComSciCon, training one another in #SciComm. American Scientist's digital managing editor Robert Frederick reports from ComSciCon-Triangle 2019.
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The prevailing narrative juxtaposes science and religion—but this approach erases the root influences of social inequality and racism, explains Adam Shapiro, a research associate at Harvard University.
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R&D Magazine
A team of researchers from Rutgers University has made progress toward better understanding — and potentially someday targeting — human chromosome 21 gene OLIG2, a gene that impairs cognitive function in those with Down Syndrome.
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Science News
Some stringy fungi are tough negotiators, trading nutrients shrewdly with plants.
An advance in tracking the nutrient phosphorus has revealed new details of ancient trading networks between fungi and plants. Some fungal species grow what are called arbuscular mycorrhizal connections underground, reaching intimately into plant roots. These fungi pull phosphorus from the soil and trade it for carbon from a wide range of plants.
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