AASWOMEN Newsletter for August 31, 2018

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of August 31, 2018
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, Maria Patterson, and JoEllen McBride

This week's issues:

1. Katherine Johnson Celebrates Her 100th Birthday

2. TAURUS Scholar Spotlight: Analis Lawrence

3. Introducing ‘Letters to Young Scientists,’ a new column from Science Careers

4. Planetary Science Engagement Institute

5. Research is set up for bullies to thrive

6. AWIS Statement Regarding Secretary Devos’ Draft Regulations On Existing Protections Against Sexual Harassment On College Campuses

7. Overlooked No More: Ruby Payne-Scott, Who Explored Space With Radio Waves

8. All career advice for women is a form of gaslighting

9. Job Opportunities

10. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

11. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

12. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

Katherine Johnson Celebrates Her 100th Birthday

President Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to
Katherine Johnson on November 24, 2015. (Reuters)

Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician who played a crucial role in calculating trajectories for America's early space missions, turned 100 on Sunday August 26th. Johnson and other groundbreaking women mathematicians of color at NASA were highlighted in the book Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly and in the movie with the same name.

Numerous articles were written about Johnson this weekend celebrating her many achievements.

Among her many honors, this weekend West Virginia State University honored her with a statue and scholarship dedication. Johnson graduated from the university in 1937. Read more at: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nasa-katherine-johnson-hidden-figures-100th-birthday_us_5b840c8ee4b0cd327dfe9857

See a message from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine about Johnson's birthday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7twrDde6P0g

For additional coverage on Johnson, see:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jesseshanahan/2018/08/28/nasa-computer-katherine-johnson-celebrates-her-100th-birthday/

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/26/us/katherine-johnson-hidden-figure-birthday-trnd/index.html

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/319099

https://www.space.com/41638-katherine-johnson-celebrates-100th-birthday.html

AASWOMEN Newsletter for August 24, 2018

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of August 24, 2018
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, Maria Patterson, and JoEllen McBride

This week's issues:

1. Career Profile: Associate Teaching Professor

2. Our Science Heroes

3. NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing

4. AAAS Leshner Fellows Letter on AAAS Harassment Policy

5. YouTube’s Women of STEM Make Learning About Science Fun

6. Girls Deterred from Science at a Young Age But Green Girls Can Fix That

7. Science’s Bullying Problem

8. NASA Intern Loses Gig After Profanity-Laden Twitter Spat with Space Council’s Homer Hickam

9. Job Opportunities

10. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

11. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

12. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

Career Profile: Associate Teaching Professor

The AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy is compiling interviews highlighting the diversity of career trajectories available to astronomers. The interviews share advice and lessons learned from individuals on those paths.

Dr. Julia Kregenow is an Associate Teaching Professor at Penn State University. She worked in science policy before moving to teaching. She has also published three children's books about astronomy.

What field do you currently work in?

Astronomy and Astrophysics

What is the job title for your current position?

Associate teaching professor

AASWomen Newsletter for August 17, 2018

AAS Committee on the Status of Women

August 17, 2018

eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Christina Thomas, Maria Patterson, and JoEllen McBride

This week's issues:

1. Cross-post: The book that fights sexism with science            

2. Useful and Interesting Webpages 

3. Lawrence Fellowship: Applications Now Being Accepted

4. FUTURE of Physics 2018: Nominations Now Being Accepted

5. Mary G. Ross: Google Doodle honors first Native American woman engineer who helped put man on the moon 

6. The comet calculator: Nicole-Reine Lepaute 

7. Job Opportunities   

8. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

9. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

10. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

Cross-post: The book that fights sexism with science

Angela Saini
Photo: Gareth Phillips for the Observer, from the Guardian

A recent article on the Guardian by Donna Ferguson discusses the impact a recent book, Inferior: The True Power of Women and the Science that Shows It by Angela Saini, has had on the myth that there are biological differences our brains by gender that cause men or women to be better at certain things. Female scientists rallied behind this message and started a crowdfunding campaign to send a copy of the book to every mixed gender secondary school in England.

Read more at

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/11/women-equal-to-men-science-fact-book-angela-saini

AASWOMEN Newsletter for August 10, 2018

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of August 10, 2018
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, Maria Patterson, and JoEllen McBride

This week's issues:

1. Cross Post: How This Female Fortune 100 Executive Is Helping Women Advance In STEM Fields

2. A Quiet Sunday Night Discovering a Supermassive Black Hole

3. LSSTC Data Science Fellowship - Accepting Applications

4. Fourth COSPAR Symposium: Small Satellites for Sustainable Science and Development

5. National Academies Convocation Announcement and Updated Materials

6. Rethinking Our Physics Heros

7. University Finds Prominent Astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss Grabbed a Woman's Breast

8. Today is Black Women's Equal Pay Day: Here’s What You Need To Know

9. AI spots 40,000 prominent scientists overlooked by Wikipedia

10. Job Opportunities

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

Cross-post: How This Female Fortune 100 Executive Is Helping Women Advance In STEM Fields

In this week's cross-post article, journalist and Forbes contributor Elana Lyn Gross profiles Nicola Palmer, the chief network engineering officer at Verizon. Palmer has been committed to helping girls and women gain STEM skills that can make an impact in any field. In the interview, Palmer speaks about "her 28-year career at Verizon, inclusive leadership and actionable ways we can support women in STEM fields".

Read more at 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/elanagross/2018/08/06/how-this-female-fortune-100-executive-is-helping-women-advance-in-stem-fields/#29244f0e1e21

AASWomen Newsletter for August 3, 2018

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of August 3, 2018
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, Maria Patterson, and JoEllen McBride

This week's issues:
1. Hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
2. Why it is not a ‘failure’ to leave academia
3. America’s First Woman Astronomer
4. Female Inventors and Their Inventions That Changed the World and Impacted the History In a Revolutionary Way
5. Here are the Girl Scouts’ new badges for skills in science and technology
6. Senate Honors Trailblazing Women in Computer Science
7. Job Opportunities
8. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
9. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
10. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

Hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

There are many fantastic ways to raise the profile of women in STEM. One that has been in the news recently is hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon. The AASWomen editors were inspired last week after seeing an article about a physicist who wrote 270 Wikipedia profiles for female scientists.

Read more here:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/scientist-pens-270-wikipedia-pages-in-a-year-so-female-scientists-get-noticed_us_5b574eeee4b0b15aba92c0d5

There are a number of resources online for how to host your own edit-a-thon. One example from 500 Women Scientists can be found here:

https://www.sciencerising.org/2018/07/23/hosting-an-edit-a-thon/

A great example of a successful event at UNC can be seen here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/UNC/Chapel_Hill_NC

Let us know if you decide to host an edit-a-thon and we'll include it in a AASWomen's newsletter!