2011-2012 Officers Central Arkansas Chapter Society of Sigma Xi
President - Dr. Kamran Iqbal
Secretary/Treasurer - Dr. Sinan Kockara
Past President - Dr. Nawab Ali
Standing Delegate to National Meeting- Dr. Parimal Chowdhury


PROGRAM
6:00 PM Social & Welcome
6:15 PM Dinner
7:00 PM Seventeenth Science in Society Debate Resolved: That the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act should be renewed.
Affirmative: Laura Yoder (Parkview Arts/Science Magnet High School)
Negative: Ghassan Makhoul (Central High School)
7:30 PM “The time, people and plants at a prehistoric Native American archaeological site in central Arkansas” presented by John House, Ph.D., Station Archaeologist, Arkansas Archaeological Survey
8:30 PM Business Meeting & New Member Initiation



2011-2012 Sigma Xi Sponsors
Dr. Robert E. McGehee, Jr.
Dean, Graduate School, UAMS

Dr. Keith Hudson
Professor, Applied Science & Chemistry, UALR
Director, UALR Graduate Institute of Technology

Dr. Sinan Kockara
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, UCA

Dr. Rahul Mehta
Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, UCA



President's Initiation of New Members

Full Members
Shengli (Victor) Sheng
Schueng Yu

Associate Members
Halil Bisgin
Tom Kasiga
Anthony V. Fernando
Amy Leah Patton
Daniel R. Sappington