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Sigma Xi
Your support for science education is clear! This Giving Tuesday, 142 generous donors raised $14,441 to make it possible for Sigma Xi to send free subscriptions of American Scientist magazine to high schools. Thanks to your support, Sigma Xi is seeking nominations of 40 more schools in states were laws or proposals threaten the integrity of science education. The qualifying states are Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
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Sigma Xi
The nomination form is open for the inaugural cohort of Sigma Xi Fellows. Full members with uninterrupted active membership for the last ten years and life members are eligible for the distinction. The Fellows distinction will honor members who have made exceptional contributions to the scientific enterprise in a variety of ways, such as research and development, mentorship, or service to Sigma Xi. Nominations are due by February 1, 2020.
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Sigma Xi
Sigma Xi is seeking nominations for the Evan Ferguson Award for Service to the Society. Known as "Mr. Sigma Xi," Evan Ferguson was widely recognized for his commitment and dedication to Sigma Xi's traditions and mission. The deadline for submission of nomination materials has been extended to February 15, 2020.
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Sigma Xi
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. Plus, members, affiliates, and explorers who renew will receive back issues of American Scientist since July 2019. Continue the honor, renew today! Thank you to those who already renewed.
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| MEMBERS AND CHAPTERS NEWS |
Sigma Xi
Congratulations to the members who have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science!
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The University of Nebraska at Kearney Chapter hosted a Science Café on December 9 about forest recovery following an insect outbreak. A recording is available.
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Registration will open January 2 for the 2020 Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference. The theme will be Hacking the Brain: The Intersection of Art and Neuroscience. The meeting will be November 5–8 in Alexandria, Virginia.
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American Scientist
A hierarchy of artificial intelligence machines ranked by their learning power shows their abilities—and their limits.
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American Scientist
Skyscrapers with smaller footprints require countermeasures to wind and sway.
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Duke SciPol.org
The National Institutes of Health recently released a draft of their updated data sharing policy, which would apply to any NIH grantee no matter the size of the grant. Under the new policy, grantees would need to submit a detailed Data Management and Sharing plan prior to conducting research. Members of the public may submit comments to NIH about this draft policy through January 10.
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Duke SciPol.org
A whistleblower at Google has raised concerns regarding HIPAA violations surrounding Project Nightingale, a healthcare information partnership involving Google. Ascension has partnered with Google to store patient data and analyze the information using artificial intelligence tools. Google has made similar deals in the past but those deals involved encrypted or anonymized data. In response, the Department of Health and Human Services has opened an investigation on the matter.
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Science News
Polar bears have long been the poster children for the woes of Arctic warming. But climate change isn't just a danger to wildlife. It threatens the safety and livelihoods of people across the Arctic.
To put a human face to this problem, an annual report by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is giving voice for the first time to people in the Bering Sea region of Alaska who deal with the impacts of rapid climate change in their daily lives.
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center via ScienceDaily
New time-lapse videos of Earth's glaciers and ice sheets as seen from space—some spanning nearly 50 years—are providing scientists with new insights into how the planet's frozen regions are changing. At the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, scientists released new time series of images of Alaska, Greenland, and Antarctica using data from satellites including the NASA-U.S. Geological Survey Landsat missions.
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