Sigma Xi Events 2019-20

Sigma Xi Events 2019-2020

Faculty Awards for Spring 2020

Congratulations to faculty award winners!  The Spring 2020 awards dinner is canceled but awardees will be invited to a future event.

  • Fort Wayne Chapter Sigma Xi 2020 College Science Teacher of the Year: Daniel Yorgov, Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences
  • Fort Wayne Chapter Sigma Xi 2020 Researcher of the Year: Alessandro Selvitella, Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences

The Student Research and Creative Endeavor Symposium

  • There were changes to the Spring 2020 Symposium format this year due to the COVID-19 public health crisis.  There are no Sigma Xi student awards this year.
  • The Fort Wayne chapter of Sigma Xi presents its annual student research awards based on posters judged at this event.  All projects in scientific and/or engineering areas will be considered, there is no need for students to apply separately for these awards.
  • Information sessions:  Tuesday, November 5, 2019, noon–1 p.m., Honors Center (Helmke Library, Room 201), and again Wednesday, November 6, 2019, 11 a.m.–noon, Honors Center. 

Annual Sigma Xi Faculty Awards for Research and Science Teaching

  • Application due date: Friday, April 10, 2020.  COVID-19 update: Faculty award nominations were considered even after the PFW campus shutdown.
  • Nomination form for PFW Sigma Xi Research Award: PDF
  • Nomination form for PFW Sigma Xi Science Teaching Award: PDF

Other events

  • The 2020 PFW College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Lecturer Series: Richard Sutter, Professor of Anthropology, Ancient Lessons for Modern Times: Spectacular Violence, Population Displacements, and Climate Change During the Moche (AD 200-850) of Peru, March 4.
  • World Wetlands Day 2020 event, sponsored in part by the PFW Environmental Resource Center.  Feb. 1.  Poster
  • Data Science Week 2019 at PFW, Dec. 4-6.  web site
  • International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019: Perspectives Conference at PFW: Oct 30 - Nov. 2. web site
  • The 2019 PFW College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Lecturer Series: Ed Saff, Vanderbilt University, From Analog to Digital or How to Make the "Perfect" Poppy-Seed Bagel. Oct. 24
  • Congratulations to Professor Yifei Pan, Mathematical Sciences, and to Jordan Marshall, Biology, on the 2019 Pippert Science Research Awards! Photo page from Sept. 23.