Richard Boudreault
Chapter Affiliation
McGill Chapter
Background Information
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Biography
Statement
I am deeply honored by the Committee on Nominations to be nominated again for election in 2021. They must perceive the kinship of purpose between Sigma Xi and I. The purpose of our actions is rooted into our mission, vision, and passion. Here is where I stand.
- Sigma Xi has a high purpose of honoring scientists and engineers, providing them companionship in knowledge advancement through research, service, and teaching.
- This rings right with me and does represent the way that Sigma XI functions and its path forward.
- I observe that our membership is still intense in the societal roles and values of research and teaching. Although our services to the community and society may be a weaker part of our common trait.
- This could be why the role of science is more and more ignored by the body politics and the people. We must enhance our societal role in an age where significant part of society refuses to take life-saving vaccines. We need to answer:
- Where did we go wrong?
- Why did science lose the trust of some of our leaders and fellow citizens it had?
- How can we serve better humanity?
- Companionship promotes sharing ideas, collaborating, and raising the value of the result and of the recommendations. Enhancing transferability of science beyond the sectorial silos.
- Sigma Xi’s mission is to enrich the health of the research enterprise, fostering integrity, and promote the public’s understanding of science and engineering, for the betterment of mankind. To reach those using ethics and research excellence.
- The emergence from COVID will provide occasions for SX to collaborate with other learned societies, academia, and organizations to perform comarketing and advance alliances.
- Such should lead to effective actions and voice to improve the public’s understanding of science.
- Further it may lead to reduced operation cost of delivering on our mission and better serve our membership and stakeholders, and furthering companionship.
- The STEM credibility gap that exists in the US also resides globally. We need to unite internationally with science, engineering learned societies and academia to share lessons learned on improving science and engineering impact on society.
- Sigma Xi has invested significant effort in making the organization and the delivery of science and engineering to be inclusive. We cannot leave good people behind. All should be involved and be asked for their proper inclusion and contribute to the problems facing humanity.
- SX needs to keep leading in inclusiveness. Both the Americas and overseas nations.
- To help the diverse stakeholders sharing interest to be coupled and productive.
- To lead internationally in expanding with kin organizations to enhance our reach and impact.