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Sigma Xi
 This Giving Tuesday, November 27, Sigma Xi invites you to support science education in schools. States across America are facing so-called "academic freedom" laws or bills that challenge the established science in textbooks. Sigma Xi will seek to raise $5,000 to send subscriptions of American Scientist magazine to 250 high schools in vulnerable areas. The magazines will serve as a supplemental source of evidence-based information. Your gift will make a difference.
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Is science communication important? Does public engagement really matter? Should the scientific community do more or less to support these activities? Please give your input in a 15-minute survey. Sigma Xi is one of 30 STEM organizations participating in this landmark survey, administered by Science Counts and the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. The survey closes on November 30.
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Sigma Xi
Active members were sent an email on October 29 containing a ballot for the Sigma Xi elections. Voting is open through 11:59 p.m. Eastern on November 27. Please vote to select the Society's future leaders.
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Sigma Xi
The Committee on Awards invites nominations by December 1 for Sigma Xi's 2019–2020 prizes and awards program, which recognizes major achievements in science, engineering, and science communication.
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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 membership dues through the Member-Get-a-Member program's 5 by the 5th campaign: Nominate five of the top scientists and engineers you know for membership by December 5. You will be credited with a free year of dues when your nominees accept their nominations and pay fees by December 31.
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Sigma Xi
 An uplifting tradition carried on at the Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference as Sigma Xi member Anna Marie Skalka split her $10,000 William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement with a younger colleague, postdoctoral associate and fellow Sigma Xi member Joy Cote. Both work at Fox Chase Cancer Center. Pictured is Cote accepting her grant certificate from Sigma Xi President Joel Primack.
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The Villanova University Chapter will co-host a public lecture on November 16 by the university's Mendel Medal recipient Veerabhadran Ramanathan titled, "Climate Change: Scientific Basis and Solutions to Bend the Curve." Ramanathan is the distinguished professor of atmospheric and climate sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. The medal recognizes Ramanathan's research accomplishments including his discovery of the greenhouse effect of halocarbons, particularly chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) previously used in aerosol products, and his ongoing scientific search for solutions to the growing consequences of global warming.
The Pennsylvania State University Chapter recently held an induction ceremony for new members and a lecture by Richard Alley, a professor of geosciences at that university, titled "Crumbling Cliffs and Surging Seas: Ice Sheets and Coastal Flooding."
To submit your chapter's events for inclusion in this newsletter, email chapters@sigmaxi.org. To find a chapter near you, visit the Sigma Xi website.
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The 2019 Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference will focus on our changing global environment with sessions on water, energy, and life. It will be held November 14–17, 2019, at the Monona Terrace Center in Madison, Wisconsin. Save 25 percent on registration through November 30.
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American Scientist
Expeditions that took animal specimens seem counter to modern conservation values, but their goal was to preserve species for scientific knowledge, explains Matthew J. James, a professor of geology and paleontology at Sonoma State University.
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American Scientist
After the success of the Standard Model, experiments have stopped answering to grand theories. Ben Allanach, a professor in the department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge, asks: Has the quest for top-down unification of physics stalled?
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National Science Foundation
To support the needs of the future workforce, Boeing Corporation will invest $10 million to design and deploy online curricula to accelerate training in critical skill areas such as robotics, data science, and artificial intelligence. As a complement to Boeing's contribution, the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Education and Human Resources will invest $10 million for research focused on re-skilling and improving the technical abilities of the nation's science and engineering (S&E) workforce. Boeing will also contribute $1 million to NSF INCLUDES, an initiative to broaden S&E participation.
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National Acadey of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences announced the appointment of Sigma Xi member May R. Berenbaum, professor and Swanlund Chair of Entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, as editor-in-chief of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A., the official journal of the academy. Berenbaum received the Sigma Xi John P. McGovern Science and Society Award in 2015 for her scientific contributions to society.
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R&D Magazine
Purdue University researchers have developed a new flexible and translucent base for silicon nanoneedle patches to deliver exact doses of biomolecules directly into cells and expand observational opportunities. Silicon nanoneedles patches are currently placed between skin, muscles, or tissues where they deliver exact doses of biomolecules.
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Science Magazine
Neonicotinoids, the world's most commonly used insecticides, effectively thwart many crop pests but they also have insidious effects on vital pollinators: bees. At high doses, these neurotoxins—which wind up in the pollen and nectar the bees collect—harm their memory and ability to gather food. Now, using an innovative tracking technique, researchers have shown that neonicotinoids broadly reduce activity in bumble bee colonies.
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