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 Executive Director and CEO John Nemeth announces the establishment of the Gold Key Award and introduces its first recipient, Norman R. Augustine, the former chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corp. In retirement, Augustine's focus is to create jobs and improve national security.
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The Sofia Kovalevskaja Award allows scientists and scholars from all countries and disciplines who completed their doctorates with distinction less than 6 years ago to conduct research in Germany. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation particularly welcomes applications from qualified, female junior researchers.
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Learn about your candidates before voting in Sigma Xi's online elections. Voting begins Nov. 14.
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Thank you to all members who have already paid their membership dues or affiliates who renewed their affiliate status. It's not too late to pay dues if you haven't yet. You can also check if your dues are current. Click here to renew your membership.
| MEMBERS AND CHAPTERS NEWS |
Ohio State University
The Ohio State University Sigma Xi Chapter in Columbus, Ohio, will co-sponsor a Science Café at 6:30 p.m. EDT on Nov. 2 to discuss research surrounding prediction systems used in the U.S. presidential election. The featured speaker is Herb Weisberg, an emeritus professor of political science at Ohio State.
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University of Minnesota
Two presentations on climate change were co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota Sigma Xi Chapter in St. Paul on Oct. 12.
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Texas A&M University
The Texas A&M University Sigma Xi Chapter in College Station, Texas, co-hosted the university's annual Undergraduate Research Expo on Oct. 5. The event allows students to seek out undergraduate research opportunities at the university.
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The next American Scientist Pizza Lunch will be held noon to 1 p.m. EDT on Oct. 25 at The Frontier in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Tobias Enger, an associate professor of psychology and neuroscience and director of graduate studies in the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University, will discuss his research on how memory affects attention. If you can't make it in person, you can watch the broadcast live on Periscope.
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We hope to see you at the Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference Nov. 10–13 in Atlanta! Professional researchers are encouraged to present a research poster during the Sigma Xi Research Symposium. High school, undergraduate, and graduate students will compete for poster presentation awards. The deadline to register and submit an abstract is Oct. 31.
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American Scientist
 Recent fossil discoveries are raising new questions about how the modern human pelvis developed its unique shape. In the cover story of American Scientist's November-December issue, Caroline VanSickle gives an update.
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American Scientist
In light of the presidential election, Henry Petroski explains that common usage has made the terms "lecterns" and
"podiums" seem equivalent. However, an examination of their etymology makes it obvious that they should be considered distinct things.
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American Scientist
David Harris and Mark A. Schneegurt argue that alternative educational resources need to be further developed to counteract an increasingly costly textbook burden on university students.
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| RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND GOVERNMENT NEWS |
Council of Graduate Schools
The Council of Graduate Schools has published a report, "Understanding PhD Career Pathways for Program Improvement," that reviews what is known about the career pathways of doctoral degree holders, current gaps in our understanding, and areas that call for greater clarification.
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National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health is interested in feedback on preprints in clinical research—manuscripts that have not gone through the formal peer review, editing, or journal publishing process.
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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommends a conceptual framework model to assess the potential cumulative effects of human activities on marine mammals.
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National Science Foundation
In her October message, National Science Foundation Director and Sigma Xi Member France A. Cόrdova provides a snapshot of NSF’s contributions to agricultural research.
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R&D Magazine
Soon beer companies will be able to provide both the frosty beverage and the batteries to power the remote during football games. Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a bio-manufacturing process that uses a biological organism cultivated in brewery wastewater to create the carbon-based materials needed to make energy storage cells.
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IEEE Spectrum
Raising glasses of genetically modified beer, the synthetic biologists at Ginkgo Bioworks celebrated the launch of a new automated lab last month. By applying engineering principles to biology, and with the help of some nifty robotic equipment, Ginkgo has created a factory for churning out exotic lifeforms, the likes of which have never before been seen on this planet.
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Phys.Org
The basics of genetic inheritance are well known: parents each pass half of their DNA to their offspring during reproduction. This genetic recipe is thought to contain all of the information that a new organism needs to build and operate its body. But recent research has shown that, in some species, parents' life experiences can alter their offspring. Being underfed, exposed to toxins or stricken by disease can cause changes in a parent's gene expression patterns, and in some cases, these changes can be passed down to the next generation.
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