{"id":29,"date":"2017-07-14T19:07:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T23:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/physicsastro\/?p=29"},"modified":"2017-07-14T19:25:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T23:25:11","slug":"sigma-xi-awards-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/physicsastro\/2017\/07\/14\/sigma-xi-awards-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigma Xi Awards 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year a significant number of new Sigma Xi\u00a0awardees are nominated by faculty in\u00a0the Physics and Astronomy Department. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sigmaxi.org\/\">Sigma Xi\u00a0<em>The Scientific Honor Society<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is a professional community of scientists and engineers fostering young talents. Significant contributions in research are\u00a0a requirement to be accepted in the Sigma Xi honor society.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30\" style=\"width: 2436px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/physicsastro\/files\/2017\/07\/Dept-SigmaXi-1.jpg\" alt=\"PhysicsAstro-SigmaXi-2017\" width=\"2436\" height=\"1285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/physicsastro\/files\/2017\/07\/Dept-SigmaXi-1.jpg 2436w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/physicsastro\/files\/2017\/07\/Dept-SigmaXi-1-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/physicsastro\/files\/2017\/07\/Dept-SigmaXi-1-768x405.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/physicsastro\/files\/2017\/07\/Dept-SigmaXi-1-1024x540.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/physicsastro\/files\/2017\/07\/Dept-SigmaXi-1-1200x633.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sigma Xi awardees and Faculty Mentors left to right: Erik Szwed, Adam Warner, Aine Connolly, Samuel Gartenstein, Molly James, Prof. Debbie Elmegreen, Caitlin Rose, Prof. Brian Daily, Christine Silveira, Alexendra Trunnell, Clara Alivisatos, Brittany Tompkins and Prof. Jenny Magnes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year a significant number of new Sigma Xi\u00a0awardees are nominated by faculty in\u00a0the Physics and Astronomy Department. Sigma Xi\u00a0The Scientific Honor Society\u00a0is a professional community of scientists and engineers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/physicsastro\/2017\/07\/14\/sigma-xi-awards-2017\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sigma Xi Awards 2017&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/physicsastro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/physicsastro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/physicsastro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/physicsastro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/physicsastro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/physicsastro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/physicsastro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/physicsastro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/physicsastro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/physicsastro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}