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Sigma Xi
The Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference starts November 14 in Madison, Wisconsin, with the 120th Assembly of Delegates, followed by oral presentations, workshops, panel discussions, student presentations, and a STEM Art and Film Festival.
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More students from underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and math will have the opportunity to receive research grants from Sigma Xi than in recent years thanks to two new financial gifts.
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Sigma Xi has kicked off its 2019 Giving Tuesday campaign to support STEM education with a goal to send American Scientist subscriptions to 1,300 high schools. You can help by nominating schools and donating.
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New details about the project to verify member data and create a new membership directory have been posted online, such as what members can expect when they call to verify their data.
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It's time to renew dues for membership, the Affiliate Circle, or Sigma Xi Explorers for fiscal year 2020 (July 1, 2019-June 30, 2020). Renewing online is easy. Continue the honor, renew today! Thank you to those who already renewed.
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Sigma Xi 2019 Young Investigator Award recipient, Sigma Xi member, and 2019 Annual Meeting plenary speaker Ariana Sutton-Grier describes research into natural solutions that can be components of climate change mitigation.
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A symposium held November 8 by the Georgia Institute of Technology Sigma Xi Chapter in Atlanta honored Sigma Xi member and chemical and biomedical engineer Nicholas A. Peppas of The University of Texas at Austin for his contributions to research through his efforts to mentor and support several generations of graduate students.
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Is the Earth's climate system telling us a consistent story about the causes of recent climate change? Sigma Xi 2019 William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement recipient Ben Santer explains why we know the answer is a resounding "yes," as an introduction to his plenary session on November 16 at the Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference.
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Batteries for implantable medical devices must be small, reliable, safe, and long-lasting. Esther Takeuchi, the 2019 Sigma Xi Walston Chubb Award for Innovation Award recipient and Annual Meeting plenary speaker describes how insights gained from extended lifetime medical batteries are providing inspiration to design and improve other types of batteries.
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The STEM Art and Film Festival will be the final event of the Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference in Madison, Wisconsin, and welcomes the public with free admission to learn about the intersection of science and art.
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American Scientist
Artist Stéphanie Kilgast uses intricacy and color to get across a dire environmental message.
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American Scientist
A century and a half later, this central concept in chemistry is still yielding discoveries.
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On the third anniversary of the Paris Agreement taking effect, the State Department gave official notice to the United Nations that the United States would be withdrawing from the landmark climate agreement. The withdrawal will take effect on November 4, 2020, one day after the U.S. presidential election.
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The National Academies and the United Kingdom's Royal Society will meet in London this Thursday and Friday for the second meeting (viewable by webcast) of the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing. The Commission, formed in response to rapidly-advancing developments in human genome editing, will hold sessions at this meeting on international perspectives, governance, and risk-benefit analysis, among others.
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In a recent Executive Order, President Donald Trump formally re-established the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), an advisory panel of non-governmental experts in science, technology, education, and innovation policy. PCAST has existed since the George H. W. Bush administration, but the new Executive Order signifies the first establishment of this group under the Trump Administration. The President has already named seven people to PCAST; the new group will meet for the first time next week.
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New Jersey Institute of Technology via ScienceDaily
One of the enduring puzzles of hearing loss is the decline in a person's ability to determine where a sound originates, a key survival faculty that allows animals to pinpoint the location of danger, prey and group members. Researchers are proposing a model based on a more dynamic neural code.
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Science News
A newly discovered type of mitochondrial self-destruction may make some brain cells vulnerable to ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
In mice genetically engineered to develop some forms of a degenerative nerve disease similar to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, energy-generating organelles called mitochondria appear to dismantle themselves without help from usual cell demolition crews.
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