Initiation Banquet - 2006
Weber's Inn
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The Initiation Banquet held at Weber's Inn on April 4, 2006, was very successful. Twenty-three initiates were inducted into the society and the attendees then heard a great talk about the origins of the universe by Professor Fred Adams of the Department of Physics.

All of the Science Fair prize winners brought their exhibits to the banquet.

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Senior Division:

• Socially Integrated Robots (Aaron Maturen [Heritage High School] and Remy & Pascal Carole [Saginaw Arts and Science Academy])
• Killing Lung Cancer Cells by Reactivating P53 Tumor Supressor (Steven Sun [Huron High School])

Junior Division:

• Daphnia on Drugs (Matthew Garber [Ann Arbor Christian School])
• Is Your Fishing Line as Strong as it Claims? (Grant Heil [Ida Middle School])
• Lead in Soil (Rachel Miller [Clague Middle School])
• Testing Short-term memory (Michael Savage [Clague Middle School])

L-R: Grant Heil, Pascal Carole, Rachel Miller, Aaron Maturen,
Matthew Garber [front], Remy Carole [back], Michael Savage [front] & Steven Sun [back]

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The Initiation
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New Associate Members (L-R)
Greg Waugh, Tracy Vannorsdall, Courtney Murdock, Laura Howard,
Viviane Hambrecht, Melissa Getz, Amanda Osborne, Julie Ferris,
Alicia Ford, Kristie Earnheart, Jay Cohen, Christa Van Dort,
Mary-Ashley Hazel, Paul Juneau, Medha Tare & Hans Tritico)
[Missing: Baxter Allen, Brandy Frazier, Karen Johnson & Hyunseok Lee]

New Full Members (L-R Wenzhe Fan, Marilyn Agin & Jae Cheol Cho)

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Two members were honored for 50 years of active membership in Sigma Xi.
L-R Prof. Dick Alexander (Elected to Ohio State University Chapter, 1956)
and Mr. Yuji Morita (Elected to the University of Michigan Chapter, 1956)

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Ted Emch (on the right), science teacher at Tappan Middle School,
was chosen as the 2006 Math and Science Teacher of the Year.
Jia Liu, Chapter Vice-President, presented Mr. Emch with an award
based on a generous donation from Pfizer, the pharmaeutical company.

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Speaker: Prof. Fred Adams (Introduced by Noemi Mirkin, Council Member)

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"The Origins of Existence"

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