September 16, 2024
Active members are encouraged to vote in the Sigma Xi elections starting on November 18 to determine who will become president-elect, directors, associate directors, and members of the Committee on Nominations. These members will receive an email from elections@vote-now.com on November 18 that contains a ballot and instructions on how to vote online.
David B. Allison, PhD
David B. Allison is Dean and Distinguished Professor at Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington and a proud lifetime member and elected Fellow of Sigma Xi. An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academies, he has contributed to research education, promoted research opportunities for others, and conducted original research. Dr. Allison’s research activities include integrity, rigor, reproducibility, transparency, and trustworthiness in science. He also studies energetics (the acquisition, storage and use of metabolizable energy by biological organisms) with emphases on obesity and aging from basic model organism studies through clinical trials, epidemiology, genetic research, meta-analyses, statistical and research methodology, and policy analysis.
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Sylvester James Gates, Jr., PhD
Sylvester James “Jim” Gates, Jr., works at the boundary of physics and mathematics. He is a theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland. He is a University System Regents Professor, the John S. Toll Professor of Physics, and a College Park Professor. He currently holds the Clark Leadership Chair in Science and serves as a Professor of Physics with the Physics Department as well as being a Professor of Public Policy in the School of Public Policy, both at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
In 1984, working with M.T. Grisaru, M. Rocek, W. Siegel, Professor Gates co-authored Superspace, the first comprehensive book on the topic of supersymmetry. His doctoral thesis was the first at MIT to investigate the subject of supersymmetry and he has continued with over two hundred publications in the field. He is known for his technical work on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory and continues to actively research the domain.
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The president-elect designee will serve a three-year term: Sigma Xi president-elect from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026; president of Sigma Xi from July 1, 2026, to June 30, 2027; and immediate past president from July 1, 2027, to June 30, 2028.