Issue of April 27, 2012
eds. Joan Schmelz, Caroline Simpson, and Michele Montgomery
This week's issues:
1. Evaluating How We Present Role Models in STEM
3. Why all astronomy departments should think of themselves as women's astronomy departments
4. German female astronomers, at home and abroad
5. This Week on the CSWA Twitter Feed
6. Physics Trends - Spring 2012
8. NASA internships for students
9. Meeting on Exoplanets in Multi-body Systems in the Kepler Era
11. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
12. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
13. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter
1. Evaluating How We Present Role Models in STEM
From: Laura Trouille via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
Univ. of Michigan social psychologists Diana Betz and Denise Sekaquaptewa recently published a thought-provoking article that I thought might be of interest to our readers -- "My Fair Physicist? Feminine Math and Science Role Models Demotivate Young Girls."
To read more:
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2012/04/evaluating-how-we-present-role-models.html
The article itself is at http://spp.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/03/27/1948550612440735.abstract?rss=1
Back to top.2. Gender Politics
From: Hannah Jang-Condell via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
I would, ideally, like to keep politics out of this blog. However, given that this is an election year, politics seems to be butting its way into everything, so here goes.
The CSWA works hard to advocate for women in science. One issue that comes up over and over again is the problem of balancing career and family -- an issue for any working mother, really. A key to that balance is the ability to plan when and how many children to have -- something that many of us, like myself, take for granted.
So when a Republican-controlled House Committee convenes an all-male panel to discuss coverage for birth control, it's hard not to take it a little personally. It's bad enough that dependent care coverage is a real issue for many young astronomers, particularly grad students and postdocs, but to not even have coverage for birth control?
To read more:
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2012/04/gender-politics.html
Back to top.3. Why all astronomy departments should think of themselves as women's astronomy departments
From: Bekki Dawson via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
[This week's guest blogger is Bekki Dawson. Bekki Dawson is a graduate student in the Astronomy Department at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the dynamics of planetary systems.]
H. Kim Bottomly, president of Wellesley College, recently wrote a Washington Post editorial "Why all colleges should think of themselves as women's colleges." President Bottomly focused on the mission of universities to produce women political leaders, but many of her arguments could apply to producing women scientists. As women's college alumna and graduate student at a co-educational institution, I began to wonder if the status of women in astronomy would improve if every astronomy department (or physics department or research center) considered itself a "women's astronomy department."
To read more:
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2012/04/guest-post-bekki-dawson-on-why-all.html
Back to top.4. German female astronomers, at home and abroad
From: Barbara Rojas Ayala via CSWA Facebook page
I found this article in today's arxiv, about the career situation of female astronomer is Germany: "We survey the job situation of women in astronomy in Germany and of German women abroad and review indicators for their career development. Our sample includes women astronomers from all academic levels from doctoral students to professors, as well as female astronomers who have left the field. We find that networking and human support are among the most important factors for success. Experience shows that students should carefully choose their supervisor and collect practical knowledge abroad. We reflect the private situation of female German astronomers and find that prejudices are abundant, and are perceived as discriminating. We identify reasons why women are more likely than men to quit astronomy after they obtain their PhD degree. We give recommendations to young students on what to pay attention to in order to be on the successful path in astronomy."
The article is at: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012AN....333..280F
Back to top.5. This week on the CSWA twitter feed
From: Caroline Simpson [simpsonc_at_fiu.edu]
A few tweets and retweets from AAS CSWA - go to twitter.com for the embedded links and stories. https://twitter.com/#!/AAS_Women
* Inspiring and Informative Videos about Women in Science http://www.underthemicroscope.com/blog/inspiring-and-informative-videos-about-women-in-science
* The Girls' Guide To Calling Out Sexism Without Being Attacked" http://www.forbes.com/sites/meghancasserly/2012/04/20/the-girls-guide-to-calling-out-sexism-workplace-tech-entrepreneurs
* 8 ways to help end workplace prejudice http://smartblogs.com/leadership/2012/04/19/8-ways-to-help-end-workplace-prejudice
Back to top.6. Physics Trends - Spring 2012
From: Laura Trouille [l-trouille_at_northwestern.edu]
Forwarded from: Roman Czujko <rczujko_at_aip.org>
The Statistical Research Center has published the spring 2012 set of Physics Trends flyers. These are printable flyers intended for display. The new flyers can be downloaded from our web site at: www.aip.org/statistics/trends/phystrends.html
This set of flyers depicts:
The starting salaries for recent physics bachelor's employed in 6 parts of the economy
Women among physics faculty members
Science and Engineering Readiness Index for each state
Back to top.7. Maria Goeppert Mayer Award
From: WIPHYS, April 25, 2012
Deadline to Nominate is July 1, 2011
The award is designed to recognize and enhance outstanding achievement by a woman physicist in the early years of her career, and to provide opportunities for her to present these achievements to others through public lectures in the spirit of Maria Goeppert Mayer. The award consists of $2,500 plus a $4,000 travel allowance to provide opportunities for the recipient to give lectures in her field of physics at four institutions and at the meeting of the Society at which the award is bestowed and a certificate citing the contributions made by the recipient. Find more info at http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/awards/goeppert-mayer.cfm
Back to top.8. NASA internships for students
From: WIPHYS, April 25, 2012
Deadline is May 31
NASA offers fall and spring semester paid internships for undergraduate and graduate students. Internships are in a variety of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines as well as business and finance. The deadline for fall semester internship applications is May 31. Interested students can apply at:
Back to top.9. Meeting on Exoplanets in Multi-body Systems in the Kepler Era
From: Eric Ford [eford_at_astro.ufl.edu]
Exoplanets in Multi-body Systems in the Kepler Era February 9-16, 2013
Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO, USA http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~eford/meetings/aspen2013
Rationale: For centuries, theories of planet formation were guided exclusively by our solar system. However, the discovery of planets orbiting other stars (exoplanets) in the past two decades has demonstrated that nature often produces planetary systems quite different from our own, neither anticipated by nor well explained by the current theories of solar system formation and dynamics. The diversity of planetary system architectures (the masses and orbital arrangements of planets) has confronted astronomers with many new challenges and reinvigorated the fields of planet formation and orbital dynamics. Among these challenges are planetary systems with multiple planets in close-in orbits, highly eccentric orbits, and planets in binary star systems. In this one week program, scientists from the fields of planetary science, celestial mechanics, astronomy and astrophysics will meet to discuss new developments in the field of extrasolar multi-planet systems. The goal of our workshop is to provide an environment where these scientists can present new ideas, discuss their implications for identifying the most important problems in the field and chart the field's future direction.
Practical Details: The meeting will be held either February 9-15 or February 10-16, 2013. We anticipate nearly 100 participants. The Aspen Center for Physics will coordinate applications, registration and housing. We will update the meeting website with information about how to apply, registration and housing as these details become available. In the meantime, you may see the ACP website for further information about registration, housing and day care for previous winter meetings. Young scientists, women and underrepresented minorities are all encouraged to apply.
Back to top.10. Job Opportunities
* AURA Solicits Applications and Nominations for the Director, National Solar Observatory http://www.aura-astronomy.org/news/news.asp?newsID=291
* AURA Solicits Applications and Nominations for the Director, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope http://www.aura-astronomy.org/news/news.asp?newsID=292
* One-year Visiting Assistant Professor Position in Physics at Kenyon College http://www.kenyon.edu/x60665.xml
Back to top.11. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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