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Sigma Xi
 The Annual Meeting agenda has been expanded from primarily Society business to programming that is designed to be both personally enriching and professionally beneficial. Sigma Xi is making these changes for you. Executive Director and CEO Jamie Vernon has asked for your feedback about the plans for this year's event.
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Research!America, in partnership with the National Science Policy Network, Sigma Xi, 14 other scientific societies, and the Rita Allen Foundation announced microgrants of $1,000–$5,000 to ten graduate student and post-doc led science policy groups for a range of activities in their communities, leading up to the midterm elections in November, highlighting the societal benefits of scientific research.
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The Society's Grants-in-Aid of Research program is accepting applications through October 1 from undergraduate and graduate students who wish to receive funding to support their research. Membership is not required to apply, however the program has designated funds for students who are members and students who have an advisor who is a member.
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Sigma Xi
It's time to renew your membership or affiliate status for fiscal year 2019. You can check if your dues are current and renew online. Thank you to all members and affiliates who already renewed. Members can earn a free year of dues through the Member-Get-A-Member program by nominating five new members.
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Does this infinite series equal zero, one, or something else?
Try to prove your answer, and learn more about common misconceptions in Calculus
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Sigma Xi
Members who are running as candidates for Sigma Xi president-elect, directors, associate directors, and members of the Committee on Nominations have been announced. Active members may vote online from October 29–November 27.
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Sigma Xi
All members, affiliates, explorers, and the public are invited to participate in Sigma Xi's Nobel Prize prediction contest, October Madness. Members submitted nominations for sports-style brackets that we will use to vote on our top predictions for the researchers who will receive the 2018 Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine, chemistry, and physics. Public voting kicks off September 6. Follow the brackets on social media with #OctoberMadness.
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Sigma Xi
The "program at a glance" document will show you everything that Sigma Xi's Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference this October 25–28 in California have to offer. Plan your trip by identifying the sessions most relevant to you. The agenda includes symposia on big data in biology and medicine; physics and astronomy; or climate, energy, and the environment. Ethics and science communication sessions, professional development workshops, science cafés, poster sessions, and science entertainment are also planned.
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Students who will present a poster during the Student Research Conference October 26–28 must submit an abstract for their presentation by September 28 in order for it to be printed in the conference's program book. An abstract is a concise summary of the research and may be submitted during the registration process, or later by following instructions in the confirmation email received after registering for the conference. Presenters should also make a hotel reservation at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport hotel by September 25 in order to receive the discounted group rate, while space allows.
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American Scientist
Henry Petroski, the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University, describes how debris from catastrophic events has provided the large data sets that engineers needed to develop detailed theories about structural life and load capacity.
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Chronicle of The New Researcher
Several new papers have been published in Sigma Xi's journal for high school research, Chronicle of The New Researcher, including one from Claire E. Gilmore, a student in Plano, Texas. Her article, "The Effect of Tsunami Barrier Texture-Pattern on Tsunami Wave Amplitude," describes her investigation into new tsunami barrier designs.
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UPI
Researchers have developed the first fully 3-D printed "bionic eye," a device that someday could help blind people see or improve vision for others. An array of light receptors were printed on a hemispherical surface for the first time, report researchers at the University of Minnesota in findings published in the journal Advanced Materials.
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Science News
We now have the most precise estimates for the strength of gravity yet. Two experiments measuring the tiny gravitational attraction between objects in a lab have measured Newton's gravitational constant, or Big G, with an uncertainty of only about 0.00116 percent. Until now, the smallest margin of uncertainty for any G measurement has been 0.00137 percent.
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