Call for Nominations of New Members

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to invite those of you who are not already members to join, and for those who are members to make nominations.  Junior faculty can be nominated for full membership, and students who have done research with you (publication not required) can be nominated for associate membership.  Here are the qualifications for membership.

Membership comes with a subscription to The American Scientist magazine. The articles cover many different disciplines and are written at the level of the general scientist so they are usually accessible to our science students. 

For students hoping to get into grad school, especially if they are juniors this year, associate membership in Sigma Xi is a good indicator on a resume that they are seriously interested in research.

Please get back to me as soon as possible with questions or nominations.  The nomination form is available online  in two formats:  MS Word and PDF.  As explained in the online directions, either one may be downloaded to your computer and printed out.  The required information may be typed directly into the Word document.  That is not true of the PDF document.

A completed nomination form may be sent to me by regular mail or e-mail.  The nomination requires input from three people - the nominee, the nominator and the seconder.  Of course, paper nomination forms are always acceptable and I can send one to you if you wish.

Assuming you are the nominator, here is a way to do it electronically.  (1) Ask the nominee to download the MS Word form, fill out her/his part using Word, and send the file to you as an e-mail attachment,  (2) you use Word to fill out the nominator's part and e-mail it to the seconder, (3) that person also uses Word to fill our her/his part and sends the file to me.  Please note that since I am a full member, the nominator may e-mail the file to me and I can serve as the seconder.

The nominee should send a check for the initiation fees and dues to the chapter secretary, Lee Carkner, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois 61201.  Checks should be made out to "John Deere Chapter of Sigma Xi".

   Initiation fee:  $15
   Annual National Dues:  $95 for Full or Associate Members
   Promotion Fee:  $25 (added to dues where applicable)
   Student Members:  $25

So, in summary, the total fees for those who are nominated are:

   New student members:  $40
   New full members:  $110
   New associate members:  $110
   Promotion of associate to full members if their 2009-2010 dues were already paid:  $25
   Promotion of associate to full members if their 2009-2010 dues were not paid:  $120