Welcome to Sigma Xi in Boulder County

The University of Colorado chapter represents a merger with chapters at the federal research laboratories in Boulder and at the IBM laboratories in Longmont. We enjoy a diverse membership of practical and academic scientists and engineers. We encourage all interested persons to attend our meetings.

The local chapter of Sigma Xi meets at noon on a Tuesday (usually the first) in each of the months October, November, December, February, March, and April at the University Memorial Center, at NCAR, or at NOAA. Lunch starts at 11:30. We invite a local scientist to describe scientific results or scientific issues, starting about 12:15. More below about the lunch programs.
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In 2007, the Boulder Chapter was awarded a Sigma Xi Certificate of Excellence for distinguished performance. The certificate recognizes exceptional chapter activity and innovative programming, especially efforts that address the four cornerstones of the Society's mission: honor in science and engineering, science education, science policy, and the public understanding of science.
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Our chapter sponsors a Science Cafe or Cafe Scientifiqe (the movement started in France). CAFE SCI meets monthly (usually the second Tuesday of the month) at REDFISH, just off the Pearl Street Mall.
CafeSci page
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Chapter Lunchtime MEETINGS -- dates, places, and speakers for fall, 2008:

Watch this space for first fall meeting early in October

To receive an e-mail reminder, sent out about a week before each event, contact David Kassoy David.Kassoy@colorado.edu.


LUNCH MEETINGS (Everyone is welcome):

2008: Tuesday, 14 October, 12:15PM, NOAA lab, 325 S.Broadway, Larry Grimm

See "Security for events at NOAA" below


November 4 (or maybe Nov.11) Brian Toon will speak


(SPRING) NCAR Foothills Lab ( NCAR Foothills Lab directions )

Save these dates in 2008: (place may change; speakers to be announced)

Most lunch meetings are on the first Tuesday of the month.


Tuesday, 21 or 28 April: Awards Reception

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Security for events at NOAA --

Presentations begin at 12:15PM in DSRC GC402 in the Skaggs Building of NOAA. You are welcome to join other Sigma Xi members and friends for lunch at 11:30AM in the cafeteria on the ground floor. The NOAA facility is a secured space. To enter the federal property on S. Broadway, you must get your name on an attendance list. Please indicate to Zdenka Smith that you plan to attend by calling her at 303 497-3051 or sending an e-mail message to: Zdenka.Smith @noaa.gov.
Please respond even if you are uncertain about attending, so that your name is on the attendance list. The single entrance to the federal facility is just south of the traffic light at 27 St. and Broadway. At the entrance, you must identify yourself to the security personnel. Ask for directions to the Skaggs building parking lot on the west side of the Skaggs Building. Please enter the Skaggs Building through the main entrance (facing west into the lower parking lot). You will be checked in by the security person at the desk in the entry lobby. Foreign nationals should call Zdenka Smith at the number above for special instructions.

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RECENT EVENTS:

At our AWARDS RECEPTION, 22 April 2008, Dr. Thomas J. Bogdan, Director: Space Weather Prediction Center NCEP/NWS/NOAA, spoke on "SPACE WEATHER COMES OF AGE"

We welcomed three new members:
Dr. Pieter T. J. Johnson, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology ;
Dr. Paul Adams Sandberg, Reconstructing early life history events at Medieval Kulubnarti, Sudanese Nubia, by laser ablation gas chromatography ;
Robert Alan Steenburgh, Holes: Ionospheric Scintillation, GPS and Imputation .

We honored two graduate students:
Joel Weinstein, Mechanical Engineering :
Sarah Jack Hinners, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology .

We recognized the excellence of seven high-school students:
Atticus Bergman of Fairview High School ;
Carli Smith of Centaurus HighShool ;
Trevor Bowen of New Vista High School ;
Katherine Strasser of Broomfield High School ;
James Lee of Monarch High School ;
Elias Stallard-Oliveras of Boulder High School ;
Kyle Knight of Nederland High School .


To learn more about the history, goals, and activity of the Society of Sigma Xi, go to the national home page.

Go back to the index to select pages for earlier years.


University of Colorado Chapter Officers:

Secretary: Jo Ann Joselyn Ph.D. (retired) previously a space scientist with NOAA and Secretary General of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (1999 - 2007); phone: 303-494-4258.

President: Tammy Maldonado, Outreach Scientist, Biological Sciences Initiative, Campus Box 347, University of Colorado,Boulder, Colorado, 80309-0347; Phone: 303-735-1679; Fax: 303-492-7744.

Vice-President: David Kassoy, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Science, Campus Box 427, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 80309-0427; Phone 303-492-6066, fax 303-492-3498.

Emeritus President: Prof. Michael Breed, Dept. of Environmental, Population and Organismic Biology, Campus Box 334, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 80309-0334, phone: 303-492-7683

Emeritus President: Zdenka Kopal Smith, NOAA, 325 S.Broadway, Boulder CO 80307-3618; 303-497-3051

Treasurer: Constance B. Sawyer, 850 20th St., #705, Boulder CO80302-7749; phone: 303-447-2250.


email to Secretary Jo Ann Joselyn: jjoselyn@earthlink.net

email to President Tammy Maldonado:: Tammy.Maldonado@colorado.edu

email to President Emeritus Michael Breed: michael.breed@colorado.edu

email to Vice-President David Kassoy: David.Kassoy@colorado.edu

email to Treasurer (also web-page) Constance Sawyer: sawyer@colorado.edu