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Sigma Xi
This year's candidates for Sigma Xi president-elect, Richard Boudreault and Nicholas Peppas, will get together to introduce themselves to the membership and answer questions during a live, virtual Town Hall on October 9, 2020, from 3-4 p.m. ET. Members are invited to send in their questions for the candidates to answer live during the Town Hall here.
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Sigma Xi
Sigma Xi invites undergraduate and graduate students to apply by October 1 for research funding from its Grants in Aid of Research program. The program offers grants of up to $1,000 in most research disciplines. Designated funds from the National Academy of Sciences and the San Antonio Lighthouse for the Blind and Vision Impaired provide grants of up to $5,000 and $2,500 for astronomy and vision-related research, respectively.
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Sigma Xi
Do you think you know who will win a Nobel Prize this year? Voting in the Elite 8 round of Sigma Xi's contest to predict the 2020 Nobel Laureates, October Madness, is open through 11:59 p.m. pacific time on September 17.
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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 your subscription to American Scientist. Thank you to everyone who already renewed.
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Sigma Xi
Michael S. Saag, professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will present an overview of the current status of the COVID pandemic: where we have been, where we are, and where we are going. This discussion will take place on Zoom Wednesday, September 23, 2020, at 12:00 p.m. CT.
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Marquis Who's Who
Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Sigma Xi member Theodore James Green with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Green celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field
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Sigma Xi
Did you miss the August 28 discussion about what vaccine options are most likely to protect us against COVID-19? The recording is now available on the Sigma Xi YouTube channel. The next conversation will take place Friday, September 25, at 2:00 p.m. ET with David Deamer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He will discuss Coronavirus: An Evolutionary Perspective.
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Sigma Xi
High school through graduate school students are invited to present their research at the Virtual Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference, November 5-8. Abstracts for virtual poster presentations will be accepted through October 1. The conference also features symposia on interdisciplinary research collaborations, networking opportunities with STEM students and professional researchers, a College and Graduate School Fair, and a STEM Art and Film Festival.
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USA Science & Engineering Festival
The USA Science & Engineering Festival is a premiere virtual STEM education and workforce development event for engaging youth from around the globe. SciFest will includes 100+ engaging booth activities, multiple exhibit areas, science demonstrations, musical performances, a retail STEM Store, Scavenger Hunt and a COLLEGE CAREER CENTER for placing college students in science and engineering careers.
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American Scientist
Staff members reviewed the process of making and comfort of wearing several homemade face mask designs.
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American Scientist
The most influential factor in the exponential growth of a militarized, excessively penal, and discriminatory criminal justice system began with 1970s policies on substance use.
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Council of Graduate Schools
The COVID-19 pandemic presents new obstacles to the matriculation, persistence and completion of U.S. graduate students, with those who are first-generation, low-income, racially and ethnically underrepresented (URM) at greatest risk for educational disruptions. With funding from the National Science Foundation's Rapid Response Research (RAPID) program, CGS will collaborate with the Council for Opportunity in Education (COE) and the Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools (CHBGS) to understand challenges currently faced by URM and first-generation students and to provide just-in-time information that will help support their success.
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National Institutes of Health
Due to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, NIH will be providing up to a two-receipt cycle extension (roughly eight additional months) of eligibility for prospective applicants meeting the requirements for submission of a K99/R00 application from the June/July 2020 due dates through the February/March 2021 due dates.
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American Museum of Natural History via ScienceDaily
New research identifies a process that might have been key in producing the first organic molecules on Earth about 4 billion years ago, before the origin of life. The process, which is similar to what might have occurred in some ancient underwater hydrothermal vents, may also have relevance to the search for life elsewhere in the universe.
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Science News
New closeup views of lung cells show just how prolifically the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 can replicate once it infiltrates the respiratory tract.
In the lab, pediatric pulmonologist Camille Ehre and colleagues at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill infected cells that line the airways in the lungs with SARS-CoV-2, waited 96 hours and then snapped scanning electron micrograph images of the virus-laden cells.
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