6th Joint Sigma Xi Symposium Hosted at MSU

      This year marks the 6th joint Sigma Xi Symposium hosted on Murray State's campus by the Murray State University and University of Tennessee at Martin chapters of Sigma Xi.  Sigma Xi is the oldest and largest society of research scientists and engineers in the world.  It welcomes both faculty and students as members.  Indeed, membership and companionship in Sigma Xi are extended to all who merit the honor by demonstrating prowess in research.  This inclusiveness was quite unusual for honor societies at the time Sigma Xi was founded.   The Society takes great pride that in the second full year of the Society’s existence, five women were inducted in a class of 39.  In 1913, a year before Julian Lewis became the first African American Ph.D. physiologist, he was inducted into the University of Chicago Chapter of Sigma Xi. 
      Sigma Xi was founded with the goal to make a difference in our society and our world.  For 120 years the members have provided service to one another and to the greater society by creating many of the inventions and scientific advances that have improved the quality of life for all humankind.  We like to say that our members come for the Honor but remain for the Service.

The talks were:
Dr. Maeve Lewis McCarthy, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, MSU, “The Mathematical Properties of Drums”
Dr. Adrian Ieta, Department of Engineering and Physics, MSU, "Electrosprays and Applications"
Dr. Kevin Revell, Department of Chemistry, MSU, "Preparation and Characterization of Semiconducting Oligomers for Application in Organic Solar Cells"
Dr. Everett Weber, Department of Biological Sciences, MSU, "Quantifying Student Learning: Significant Type I and Type II Errors of Learning Gains"
Dr. Paula Gale, Department of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, UTM, “Effects of Grassland Management on Soil Physico-Chemical Properties”
Dr. Edie J. Banner, Department of Chemistry, MSU, “Chemistry and Poison Dart Frogs”
Dr. Robin Q. Zhang, Department of Geosciences, MSU, "Modeling Dynamic Urban Expansion Processes Incorporating a Potential Model with Cellular Automata"
Dr. Paul Higgs, Department of Chemistry, UTM, “Betalain Plant Pigments:  Isolation, Synthesis and Applications”

Dr. Alexey Arkov, Department of Biological Sciences, MSU, "Mechanisms of Germline Development in the Fruit Fly"
Dr. Suguru Nakamura, Department of Biological Sciences, MSU, “Immunocytochemical Distribution of H-K-ATPase Beta Subunit in Hyperglycemic Mice”
Dr. Sarah Holliday, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UTM, “Enumerating Labeled Graphs with Certain Neighborhood Properties”