AAS Committee on the Status of Women
October 19, 2018
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria
Patterson, JoEllen McBride, and Ale Aloisi (guest ed.)
This week's issues:
1. A personal recommendation for the AAS
to collect data to determine participation of underrepresented groups
2. Australia gets Women in STEM Ambassador
in astrophysicist professor
3. Sarah Stewart Receives MacArthur
"Genius Grant"
4. Breakthrough Prize Honors Early Career
Astronomers
5. 2019 ASU Exploration Postdoctoral Fellowship
6. Astronomy
is losing women three times faster than men
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
1. A
personal recommendation for the AAS to collect data to determine participation
of underrepresented groups
From: Members of the DPS Professional
Culture and Climate Subcommittee via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
In order to determine how new policies
affect the equitable participation of astronomers from all backgrounds, we
propose that the AAS collect detailed demographic information on its members
and use these data to understand the barriers for members of underrepresented
groups. While the AAS workforce surveys do ask demographic information (Workforce Survey
of 2016 US AAS Members Summary Results), they can not easily be compared to
award or author information in the way a member database could.
To learn how the American Geophysical
Union has enabled these kinds of studies and to learn more about the DPS
proposal, please read
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2. Australia gets Women in STEM Ambassador
in astrophysicist professor
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellenr_at_albion.edu]
The federal government has announced the
appointment of Australia's first Women in STEM Ambassador. Astrophysicist and
Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith (CSIRO) has been charged with "overseeing the
country's attempt to diversify its science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics sectors." The federal government has committed "AU$4.5
million over four years under the Australian Technology and Science Growth Plan
to formulate a Women in Science Strategy to develop and distribute STEM Choices
resources kits to school-age girls."
Read more at
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3. Sarah Stewart Receives MacArthur
"Genius Grant"
From: Nicolle Zellner
[nzellner_at_albion.edu]
[Stay tuned for an interview with Sarah to
be posted at womeninastronomy.blogspot.com . – eds.]
Dr. Sarah Stewart, a planetary scientist
at UC-Davis, has been recognized for "[a]dvancing new theories of how
celestial collisions give birth to planets and their natural satellites, such
as the Earth and Moon". Congratulations!
See her interview about the Moon-forming
event at
Read the AAS press release at
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4. Breakthrough Prize Honors Early Career
Astronomers
From: Nicolle Zellner
[nzellner_at_albion.edu]
Dr. Lisa Barsotti (MIT) has been
recognized, along with her colleagues, with a New Horizons in Physics Prize
"for research on present and future ground-based detectors of
gravitational waves." Congratulations!
Read the AAS press release, and see the
rest of the honorees, at
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5. 2019 ASU Exploration Postdoctoral
Fellowship
From: Judd Bowman [Judd.Bowman_at_asu.edu]
The School of Earth and Space Exploration
(SESE) at Arizona State University invites applications for the position of
Exploration Postdoctoral Fellow. The
fellowship provides opportunities for outstanding early-career scientists and
engineers, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary research. Research areas within SESE encompass
astrophysics, cosmology, Earth and planetary sciences, astrobiology,
instrumentation and systems engineering, and science education.
Incoming Fellows will receive an annual
stipend of $65,000 with health benefits, plus $12,000 per year in discretionary
research funds. A relocation allowance
will be provided. Appointments will be
for up to three years and shall commence on or around July 1, 2019.
For more information and application
details, please see:
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6. Astronomy
is losing women three times faster than men
From: Maria Patterson [maria.t.patterson_at_gmail.com]
“Analysis of recruitment data strongly
supports anecdotal evidence that the field struggles to retain women early in
their careers.”
Read more at
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7. Job Opportunities
-
Postdoctoral
positions, Space Sciences Lab, University of California at Berkeley
- YCAA
Postdoctoral Prize Fellowship, Yale Center for Astrophysics, Yale University
- Lecturer
in Geosciences, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida
- Assistant
Professor, Planetary Science, Rutgers University
- Asst. Professor, Theoretical
Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Faculty Position in Theory (incl.
cosmology/astrophysics), Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Yale
- Margaret Burbidge Visiting Sabbatical
Fellowship, Depat of Physics and Astronomy, UC-San Diego
For those interested in increasing
excellence and diversity in their organizations, a list of resources and advice
is here: https://cswa.aas.org/#howtoincrease
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