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Sigma Xi
Mark Peeples looks back on his year as Sigma Xi president and reflects on the value he sees now in the Society as well as the improvements he has seen in recent years. His presidency ends on June 30, 2016.
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Kavli Prize
Member Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology is one of three winners of the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics while member Carla J. Shatz of Stanford University is one of the three winners of the Kavli Prize in Nueroscience. The prizes recognize scientists for pioneering advances in our understanding of existence at its biggest, smallest, and most complex scales.
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Barron's
Sigma Xi members Neil D. Jespersen of St. John’s University and Pamela Kerrigan of College of Mount Saint Vincent are co-authors of Barron’s AP Chemistry, 8th edition, an advanced placement test prep book.
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U.S. Department of Energy
Member Ronald Davidson, who directed the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and was a founding director of the Plasma Fusion Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has died.
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Twitter
Sigma Xi was a sponsor of “Career Options for STEM PhDs in RTP,” a networking event at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center on June 3. The event included a panel discussion on STEM careers.
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Google
A recording is available of yesterday’s Google Hangout about how University of California, Los Angeles mathematicians and social scientists developed a “predictive policing” computer program that identifies areas that have the highest probably of crime. The featured speakers were Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer Andrea Bertozzi and her collaborator Jeff Brantingham.
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American Scientist
Many research results define boundaries of what cannot be known, predicted, or described. Classifying these limitations shows us the structure of science and reason.
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American Scientist
In this podcast episode, American Scientist’s Robert Frederick spoke with Nicole Kleinstreuer, deputy director of the National Toxicology Program Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM), about how computational toxicology is advancing toxicological screenings.
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American Scientist
Professor Astro Cat’s Atomic Adventure introduces kids to a wide range of physics’ basic concepts, such as the properties of light, pressure (as shown in the image), and magnetism.
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Council of Graduate Schools
Updates on major news, research, and policies shaping graduate education from the Council of Graduate Schools News Network.
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National Institutes of Health
How many principal investigators are awarded funding by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and how does that compare to the number who want funding? This and more topics are discussed in the latest NIH Extramural Nexus, a newsletter from NIH.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Learn about the latest EPA research in the agency’s newsletter, Science Matters.
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Science Daily
Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that the universe is expanding 5-9 percent faster than expected. They made the discovery by refining the universe's current expansion rate to unprecedented accuracy, reducing the uncertainty to only 2.4 percent. The team made the refinements by developing innovative techniques that improved the precision of distance measurements to faraway galaxies. These measurements are fundamental to making more precise calculations of how fast the universe expands with time, a value called the Hubble constant.
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Science
Last year, researchers working to synthesize the genome of a strain of yeast began to eye a much bigger prize: assembling from scratch the 3 billion base pairs of DNA that drive a human cell. The idea caught the attention of other prominent scientists, and inspired a proposal published online in Science. The so-called Human Genome Project–Write (HGP-write) aims to synthesize entire genomes — of humans and other species — from their chemical components, and get them to function in living cells.
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Science Daily
Scientists have discovered how just two neurons in the brain hold the key to explaining how complex behavioral decisions are made. Scientists studied the brain activity of freshwater snails and discovered how a circuit comprising of just two neurons can drive a sophisticated form of decision making.
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