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Executive Director and CEO Jamie Vernon recently received a message from Patrick Goff, a science teacher at Beaumont Middle School in Lexington, Kentucky, who is looking to connect students to scientists. Goff would like to show his students informal, short videos of scientists talking about their research. Members are encouraged to help by sending Goff a video.
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You can help students who can't afford to attend the Student Research Conference by making a donation to the Sponsor a Student campaign. One hundred percent of donations go directly to students. If you have access to student travel support or have other ideas about how to help, email Executive Director and CEO Jamie Vernon at executiveoffice@sigmaxi.org or join the conversation in the member community.
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Sigma Xi's new Diversity Taskforce has sent members, affiliates, and explorers a survey via email to assess experiences and perceptions on issues relating to diversity. If you can’t find it in your inbox, please take the survey online. The taskforce was formed as part of Sigma Xi’s efforts to evaluate the state of diversity in the Society and to identify opportunities to achieve the goal of a diverse and inclusive research community.
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Are you a cutting edge junior researcher looking to further your career abroad? The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Sofia Kovalevskaja Award provides €1.65 million to support you and your team for a 5-year project of choice!
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 A Grants-in-Aid of Research award has led to published research by Melissa Edler and her collaborators, who found pathologic hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease in aged chimpanzee brains.
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Sigma Xi's Nobel Prize prediction contest, October Madness, is back! The nomination period is open so you can tell Sigma Xi who you think will win this year's Nobel Prizes in chemistry, physics, and physiology or medicine. If you nominate someone who goes on to win a Nobel Prize, you will be entered in a raffle for a chance to win a year of free dues as a member, affiliate, or explorer. Use the hashtag #OctoberMadness to share your predictions on social media! Voting kicks off August 29.
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Now is the time to renew your membership or affiliate status for FY2018. You can check if your dues are current and renew online. Thank you to all members who already renewed their membership and to affiliates who renewed.
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The Commercial
Rebecca Lochmann, interim chair of the Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and past president of the Central Arkansas Sigma Xi Chapter, was recognized as one of five Arkansas Research Alliance Fellows at a press conference held at the Arkansas State Capitol. The ARA Fellows program recognizes distinguished university research leaders in the state with an established history of impact.
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PRCubeStars: Updates
Felix E. Rivera-Mariani, who earned his PhD in microbiology at the University of Puerto Rico’s School of Medicine, is the principal investigator of a team of students and mentors who are testing for fungal spores in the stratosphere.
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High Plains Journal
Bob Hunger was named 2017 Mr. Wheat at the recent Oklahoma Wheat Growers' Association annual meeting in El Reno, Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Wheat Growers' Association is pleased to honor Hunger, Oklahoma State University professor of plant pathology, for his many years of dedication to the Oklahoma wheat industry in providing valuable research and information regarding wheat diseases.
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Ohio State University
Join Ohio State University Libraries and the Ohio State University Sigma Xi Chapter on August 9 for a Science Café to learn more about this month's total solar eclipse from Jamie Tayar of the OSU Department of Astronomy.
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Please share with your colleagues, students, and climatology programs the flyers for the Sigma Xi Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry, Climate, and Health and Student Research Conference. These events will be held November 10–11, 2017, in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Military veterans receive a 50% registration discount to the Sigma Xi Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry, Climate, and Health and Student Research Conference in honor of Veterans Day. Show your ID at registration.
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How much will it cost to attend the Student Research Conference, how might students find the funds, and what are the key deadlines? Find out in these budget tips.
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 What science, policy, and actions put the ozone layer and the ozone hole on the path to recovery? A. R. Ravishankara, professor of chemistry and atmospheric science at Colorado State University, will explain on November 10 during the Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry, Climate, and Health in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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American Scientist
 A decades-long experiment opens up like a set of Russian nesting dolls, to reveal story after story, each embedded within the one that preceded it. Lee Dugatkin, a biology professor at the University of Louisville, and Lyudmila N. Trut, head of a research group at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Department of Russian Academy of Sciences, describe her domestication experiment. Photo credit: Institute of Cytology and Genetics.
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American Scientist
David Shiffman, marine conservation biologist and science communicator, discusses the #EmojiYourPhD hashtag game, which challenges scientists to explain complex topics using internet pictograms.
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American Scientist
Web designer Gary Schroeder's illustration explains the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON), which will study the region of space where terrestrial and space weather meet.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Science Breakthroughs 2030: A Strategy for Food and Agriculture Research is a study of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that is looking for your ideas! The study seeks to identify the next big research directions for food and agriculture sciences. The primary goal is to develop a scientific strategy for food and agriculture research for the next decade and beyond.
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National Public Radio
The European slug is average in every way: slimy, brownish, shorter than a credit card. But Arion subfuscus has a minor superpower: When it's scared, it can glue itself to wet surfaces very well, and do so while remaining bendy. For some time now, scientists have been searching for a better adhesive for surgery and wound healing.
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R&D Magazine
A tiny medical device containing gold specks could boost the effects of cancer medication and reduce its harm, research suggests. Scientists have completed a study which showed that gold increased the effectiveness of drugs used to treat lung cancer cells.
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Science Daily
A pioneering new study is set to help surgeons repair hearts without damaging precious tissue. A team of scientists has developed a way of producing 3D data to show the cardiac conduction system — the special cells that enable our hearts to beat — in unprecedented detail. The findings were published in Scientific Reports.
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