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Sigma Xi
 Sigma Xi Executive Director and CEO John Nemeth shares reliable sources for information about the Zika virus and encourages members to pass the information on to their communities. His Kids Science Reading Corner has books for different age groups about Albert Einstein.
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Are you an experienced researcher looking to further your career abroad? The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme supports you on a stipend of EUR 3,150/month to conduct long-term research in Germany! Read More
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Voting for Sigma Xi's 2016 elections will be held online Nov. 14-Dec. 13. Candidate information has been published on Sigma Xi's website.
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 Undergraduate and graduate students must apply by Oct. 1 to be considered for funding in the fall cycle of Sigma Xi's Grants-in-Aid of Research program.
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All nominations for Sigma Xi's 2017 prizes and awards are due Oct. 1. Learn how to submit a nomination by visiting the prizes and awards webpage.
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Everyone who supports research — including teachers, students, clinicians, and science advocates — is invited to join the Sigma Xi Affiliate Circle to connect with the research community and help promote excellence and ethics in research. Sigma Xi is offering 20 percent off the annual rate for new affiliates who join by Sept. 30.
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It's the finals of Sigma Xi's Nobel Prize prediction contest, October Madness. Vote to keep your favorites in the running!
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ScienceDebate.org
All four major candidates for United States president have responded to key questions about science, engineering, technology, health, and the environment. The 20 questions came from a coalition of 56 nonpartisan organizations, led by ScienceDebate.org and representing scientists and engineers worldwide. Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society is member of the coalition and provided input into the question development process.
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| MEMBERS AND CHAPTERS NEWS |
Vermillion Plain Talk
Member Piali De, affiliated with the Brown University Sigma Xi Chapter, has contributed a guest editorial to Vermillion Plain Talk in Vermillion, South Dakota, about the ways research supports the national economy.
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Chemical & Engineering News
Three Sigma Xi members are seeking election at the American Chemical Society: Rigoberto Hernandez, affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology Sigma Xi Chapter, is running for the ACS District IV Director position. Joseph A. Heppert, affiliated with the University of Kansas Sigma Xi Chapter, and Kristin M. Omberg, affiliated with the Tri-Cities Washington Sigma Xi Chapter, are both running for the Director-at-Large seat.
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The Temple University Chapter in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was revitalized in April 2016 and will host their first lecture on Sept. 27. The topic will be obesity.
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The Louisville Chapter in Louisville, Kentucky, has become the first chapter to sponsor students to join the Sigma Xi Affiliate Circle. The chapter sponsored four students who won their Sigma Xi awards at regional science fairs. The awards also include a certificate, an invitation to a chapter meeting, and $50.
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 Have you registered yet for the Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference, to be held Nov. 10–13 in Atlanta? This year's meeting will include the new Sigma Xi Research Symposium featuring professional poster presentations and the new STEM Mixer.
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American Scientist via YouTube
Save the date for our YouTube live event at 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 11. The title is, "After Fukushima: Nuclear Power Programs Around the World." The event will feature Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer M.V. Ramana, a research staff member at Princeton University, who will be asked questions by the live audience and an American Scientist editor.
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American Scientist
 Brian Malow observes as Nobel laureates mentor young scientists at their annual meeting in Lindau, Germany.
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American Scientist
Daniel S. Silver explains that in mathematics induction is a tool that lets us probe the infinite, despite our disappointingly finite mortal existence.
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American Scientist
American infrastructure is vitally important, yet decaying. Henry Petroski explores where the funds will come from to fix it, and how the persistent plague of graft can be eliminated.
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| RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND GOVERNMENT NEWS |
Council of Graduate Schools
The Council of Graduate Schools reported all underrepresented minority groups monitored by a survey saw greater increases in first-time graduate enrollment than their white, non-Hispanic counterparts, although their overall representation in the graduate student body still remains relatively low.
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National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health's newsletter Extramural Nexus provides an overview of the reforms the NIH is leading to enhance its stewardship of clinical trials.
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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Family caregivers for adults age 65 or older need more recognition, information, and support to fulfill their responsibilities and maintain their own health, financial security, and well-being, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation announced the inaugural awards for the NSF INCLUDES program, which aims to improve diversity in STEM on a national scale.
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Phys.Org
Yale scientists have found a way to rewire the behavior of an important group of small molecules involved in the synthesis of carbon-to-oxygen chemical bonds. The process allows small, synthetic molecules to exhibit the functional diversity of much larger enzymatic catalysts, and offers a promising new tool for synthesizing therapeutics based on natural products. The findings appear in the journal ACS Central Science.
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Science Daily
Human babies and even animals have a basic number sense that many believe evolves from seeing the world and trying to quantify all the sights. But vision has nothing to do with it. Johns Hopkins University neuroscientists have found that the brain network behind numerical reasoning is identical in blind and sighted people.
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National Public Radio
It was in 1909 that Nobel Prize-winning German physician Paul Ehrlich proposed the idea that our bodies are fighting constant battles with cancer and that, thankfully, most of the time we win. Ehrlich was a visionary in recognizing the interaction between cancer and the immune system. Specifically, that cancerous cells are continuously arising in the body but that our immune defenses in many if not most cases keep them at bay.
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