Welcome to Sigma Xi in Boulder
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. This prize 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
spring, 2008:
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):
Tuesday, 4 March, 12:15PM, NCAR Foothills Lab (
NCAR
Foothills Lab directions
)
Dr. James Nabily, TDA Associates:
"Performance of a Lightweight and Freeze-Tolerant Spacesuit Radiator in
Lunar and Mars Environments"
Save these dates in 2008: (place may change; speakers to be
announced)
Tuesday, 1 April CU University Memorial Center, Room 245
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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. There is only
one entrance to the federal facility just south of the traffic light at
27 St. and Broadway. You will have to identify yourself to the security
personnel at the entrance building. Then, ask for directions to the
Skaggs building parking lot on the west side of the Skaggs Building.
Please enter through the main entrance (facing west into the lower
parking lot). You will have to be checked in by the security person at
vthe 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, 19 April 2007, Prof Frank Kreith
spoke on "A Sustainable Transportation System: Politics and Technology".
We welcomed five new members:
Dr. Kevin S.G. Heng, Supernova remnants, gamma-ray bursts & the
physics of shocks;
Dr. Mervi Hjelmroos-Koski, Palynology & Public Health;
Dr. Diana Oliveras, Conservation of pollinators;
Dr. Darin Toohey, Atmospheric measurements of aerosols and trace
gases.
Dr. Rui Wang, Artificial hearts and circulatory components.
We honored five teachers of science and mathematics in Boulder Valley
high schools:
Ben Boyer of Boulder High School;
Kay Davidson of Broomfield High School;
Ron Haddad of Centaurus High School(again);
Kathy Vance of Arapahoe Ridge High School;
Reid Walker of Monarch High School.
We recognized the excellence of seven high-school students:
Joseph Baum of Boulder High School;
Domenico DiMarco of Centaurus HighShool;
Eric Ellison of New Vista High School;
Kevin Fiedler of Broomfield High School;
Adam Richmond of Monarch High School;
Thomas Waggoner of Fairview High School;
Hannah Walters 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 Internatonal Union of Geodesy and
Geophysics (1999 - 2007); phone: 303-494-4258.
President: Carol Ann Kearns Ph.D., Baker Residential Academic Program and
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, CU Boulder; 303-492-4973.
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.
e-mail to Secretary Jo Ann Joselyn:
jjoselyn@earthlink.net
e-mail to President Carol Kearns:
Carol.A.Kearns@colorado.edu
e-mail to President Emeritus Michael Breed:
michael.breed@colorado.edu
e-mail to Vice-President David Kassoy:
David.Kassoy@colorado.edu
e-mail to Treasurer (also web-page) Constance Sawyer:
sawyer@colorado.edu
e-mail to Secretary Emeritus Roy Garstang:
garstang@earthlink.net
e-mail to Past President Zdenka Smith:
Zdenka.Smith@noaa.gov
e-mail to Treasurer emeritus E. K. Smith:
ernest.smith@cu.colorado.edu
