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Sigma Xi
Sigma Xi is honored to announce that Walter E. Massey, PhD, will receive Sigma Xi's highest honor, the Gold Key Award, on Nov. 7 at the virtual Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference. The award honors his lifelong leadership in science and technology, including his roles as former director of Argonne National Laboratory, former head of the National Science Foundation and chair of the Giant Magellan Telescope Board.
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Sigma Xi
Thank you for submitting nominations for the 2020 awards and prizes recipients! This year's recipients were announced last week. They will be honored, and most will be plenary speakers, at the Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference, which will be held virtually Nov. 5-8, 2020.
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Sigma Xi
Twenty members have become the first Fellows of Sigma Xi, a distinction awarded on a competitive basis to members who have been recognized by their peers. Fellows must be an active (dues-paying), full member for the last 10 years continuously, or a life member, with distinguished service to Sigma Xi and outstanding contributions to the scientific enterprise.
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Sigma Xi
Did your dues expire when Fiscal Year 2020 ended on June 30? Renew your membership, affiliate status, or explorer status now to continue benefits, such as a discount on registration to the virtual Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference this November. Thank you to everyone who already renewed.
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Sigma Xi
Hannah Margolis wrote a children's book, What Is a Virus? to help children and parents learn the basics of viruses as we all face SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The book is available as a free PDF and was illustrated by her friend Emily Morin. Margolis is a recent graduate of Dartmouth College, where she studied biochemistry and global health. She currently works at the National Institutes of Health.
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A panel of five scientists spoke about their experience and research last week for an online discussion: New River Valley Science on Tap Celebrates Black Scientists. The event was supported by the Center for Communicating Science at Virginia Tech and the Virginia Tech Sigma Xi Chapter.
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Sigma Xi
Students in high school through graduate school may submit a 250-word abstract by October 1 to present a poster at the virtual Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference. The conference includes research symposia, plenary sessions, lectures by Sigma Xi's distinguished award winners, a College and Graduate School Fair and a STEM Art and Film Festival.
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Sigma Xi
Members recently attended a kick-off event for a series designed by Sigma Xi to prepare researchers to participate in STEM policy at the state level. Follow up sessions in the series will focus on the North Carolina science policy network but will provide general information about science policy that will appeal to scientists nationwide. Dates for future events in the series will be announced soon.
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American Scientist
Communities have to control the outbreak before schools can consider how to plan and control infections within their walls.
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American Scientist
The quick thinking of internationally-minded astronomers led by John Herschel avoided stamping the Solar System with petty European rivalries.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
The COVID-19 pandemic is posing new challenges for research universities and exacerbating old ones. How should universities respond to these problems, and what innovative solutions might help? A recent workshop tackled these questions.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
In response to a request from the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have formed a committee to develop an overarching framework to assist policymakers and health authorities in planning for allocation of vaccines against COVID-19, given that there will likely be limited doses available initially. The first meeting was held on July 24. [watch the recording].
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St John's College, University of Cambridge via Science Daily
Smallpox spread from person to person via infectious droplets, killed around a third of sufferers and left another third permanently scarred or blind. Around 300 million people died from it in the 20th century alone before it was officially eradicated in 1980 through a global vaccination effort — the first human disease to be wiped out.
Now, an international team of scientists have sequenced the genomes of newly discovered strains of the virus after it was extracted from the teeth of Viking skeletons from sites across northern Europe.
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Science News
Space weather forecasting is a guessing game. Predictions of outbursts from the sun are typically based on the amount of activity observed on the sun's roiling surface, without accounting for the specific processes behind the blasts.
But a new technique could help predict the violent eruptions of radiation known as solar flares based on the physics behind them, researchers report in the July 31 Science.
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