Indiana
University Bloomington Chapter of Sigma Xi
The International Honor Society of Scientific and Engineering
Research
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About Sigma Xi Sigma Xi, an international, multidisciplinary research society, honors and encourages excellence in scientific investigation and companionship and cooperation among researchers in all fields of science and engineering. Its most salient activity is to publish American Scientist, the premier journal for the scientifically literate general reader. A new Sigma Xi resource on Evolution includes several articles from American Scientist. |
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Local Sigma Xi Activities Annual Banquet and Awards ceremony
April 23 at 6:00 pm Terry's Banquet and Catering 3124 Canterbury Court, Off Old Highway 46 (West 17th Street) Speaker Kenneth R. Richards Environmental Science, SPEA, Indiana University, Bloomington What has Climate Science Wrought? in which he will describe developments in climate change policy. Dr. Richards’ research interests include climate change policy and environmental policy implementation, and he is an authority on carbon sequestration economics and policy. So that we can get a head count
PLEASE LET US KNOW YOU’LL BE ATTENDING by emailing our Treasurer, Alice Fly (afly@indiana.edu) Annual Recruitment of new members Early in the second semester, the IUB Chapter of Sigma Xi seeks nominations for membership in Sigma Xi. This year the nominations should reach the Secretary, Gabriel Frommer (Psychology 373), by Monday, March 10, 2008. Several benefits go with membership, including:
Return to top Next Café: Particle Accelerators: How they impact your life in Bloomington.
Presented by Vladimir (Laddie) Derenchuk,
Division Head of Accelerator Technologies Indiana University Cyclotron Facility Thursday, April 10, 2008
If you think that particle accelerators are large scientific instruments found in Geneva, Chicago or on Long Island you would be only partly correct. Bloomington residents are surrounded by particle accelerators that are used for research, medicine and industry. Find out the difference between a cyclotron, synchrotron and Linac. We will learn the basic concepts of how accelerators work and how they are used. Join us to discover exactly how these complex instruments improve and enrich your life in Bloomington. http://www.sciencecafebloomington.org/Return to top Coming events Languagelessness, the Critical Period and Adult Language Acquisition: ldefonso’s Story
Susan Schaller, author of A Man Without Words
Friday, April 18, 2008, 3 p.m. C141 Speech and Hearing, 200 S. Jordan Susan Schaller, author and human rights advocate, taught a 27-year old his first language, not knowing she was doing something considered impossible by many in academia. Her student, Ildefonso, led her to others like himself. Their stories are the subject of her second manuscript, Lives without Words, People without Language, about the hidden crime of children being raised without language around the world. Several of these stories are told in the video documentary made with Oliver Sacks, In Search of Lucy Doe. More Information: Please contact Mara Margolis, 812-339-5793  For more information, please visit www.indiana.edu/~gillctr/
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Past events
Return to top Women in Science Research
Conference
This conference provides an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate
women students in the natural sciences, social sciences, and mathematics and technology fields (all four
of which pertain to cognitive science!) to showcase their research.
Submit a poster: http://www.indiana.edu/~owa/wisp/wisp_application.html The
College Arts &
Humanities Institute
present a lecture on the development of stress-related diseases specific title TBA Robert Sapolsky
Neuroscientist
Dr. Robert Sapolsky is
an expert in the development of stress-related
diseases and author of several books which explain human behavior
through comparisons with other species in the animal kingdom. In his
2001 book A Primate's Memoir, Sapolsky recounts his early fieldwork
living with baboons in Africa, which fulfilled a childhood dream and
made him an expert in shooting anesthetic darts with a blow-gun. The
book was praised as flowing "like a well-paced and finely crafted
novel...[giving] us a cast of characters as memorably colorful as any
that Dickens ever created" (Newsday).Stanford University 5:00 pm, Monday, March 3, 2008 Frangipani Room Indiana Memorial Union Sapolsky's 1998 work Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers explains how humans' instinctual stress responses, designed to avoid death and disaster, kick in way too often in today's modern life, sometimes resulting in long-term illness. Sapolsky explores how stress affects human health, and what we can do to mitigate its impact. His other works include such intriguing titles as The Trouble with Testosterone and Monkeyluv and Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals. Robert Sapolsky is the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University. He is also appointed as a research associate with the Institute of Primate Research at the National Museum of Kenya. Video of Dr. Sapolsky's Grass Lecture at Washington State University. Return to top Interdisciplinary Logic Seminar
presents a talk by Leah Savion and Sharon Mason IU Philosophy Department Self-Deception - the Epitome of Irrationality? March 5, 2008, 4:00 PM, Chemistry 033 Abstract: Annual luncheon for new faculty members in the sciences. Sigma Xi's annual luncheon for new faculty members in the sciences was on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007. We will start to gather at about Noon in the Coronation Room off the Tudor Room in the Indiana Memorial Union. we invited new faculty from departments across campus as our guests we hope have a good turnout welcome them the university its community scientists their primary departmental affiliations include anthropology astronomy biology chemistry cognitive science counseling psychology educational leadership policy studies geography informatics kinesiology language mathematics education psychological brain sciences optometry school public and environmental affairs statistics sociology please feel free invite colleagues to attend whether they are members of sigma xi or not> Karen Hanson, Rudy Professor of Philosophy and the new Provost and Executive Vice President for the Bloomington campus, has accepted our invitation to speak about some of the goals she hopes to achieve. We have asked the new faculty to introduce themselves and describe their research interests in a few minutes. We hope you will come to meet our new colleagues and find out a bit about their research. The cost will be about $13.00 per person, and new faculty members will be
our guests. Please let me know as soon as possible whether you plan to
come, so we can give the Tudor Room a good estimate of the number of
people to expect. You can get in touch with me by e-mail, phone, or
campus mail The executive committee will also present some ideas the executive committee has considered for programs that would be of interest to Sigma Xi members and to the scientific research community at IU in general. You are cordially invited to contribute your suggestions. Our goal is to make Sigma Xi a significant contributor to the encouragement of scientific research and to its dissemination. We hope to see you on Oct 23. Cordially, Gabriel P. Frommer, Secretary Bloomington Chapter of Sigma Xi, |
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