Issue of December 28, 2018
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and JoEllen McBride
[Happy Holidays to all! --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. Go For The Outliers - Top 10 Tips For Driving Diversity In STEM
2. What This New 500 Women In Medicine Initiative Aims To Do
3. NSF Career Compass Challenge
4. Nancy Grace Roman, involved with Hubble telescope, dies
5. TNW's top 11 women making waves in STEM from 2018
6. Hawaii students have IDEAS for a STEM Workforce
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. Go For The Outliers - Top 10 Tips For Driving Diversity In STEM
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride@gmail.com]
These 10 tips for corporate hiring are definitely applicable to other areas of recruiting such as graduate school and tenure track positions.
Read more at
Back to top.2. What This New 500 Women In Medicine Initiative Aims To Do
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Bruce Y. Lee
"This new initiative is called 500 Women in Medicine. But it could benefit many, many more people of all genders, both inside and outside medicine."
Read more at
Back to top.3. NSF Career Compass Challenge
From: [careercompasschallenge_at_nsf.gov]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has launched a cash prize competition, totaling $100,000, called the NSF Career Compass Challenge. Check it out!
We challenge you to imagine a solution that, given information about a person, will predict jobs that suit that individual's strengths and aspirations and helps them to develop the skills needed to qualify for current and future careers. The challenge addresses the changing nature of work, and the pace of change to the types of work, needed to carry out essential missions for the American people and create the Workforce for the 21st Century.
This is a two-part competition, and participants have the option to participate in Part 1, Part 2 or both. Part 1 of the challenge is to submit a white paper of the potential solution. The deadline for Part 1 is January 7, 2019. For Part 1 five winners be selected, and each will be awarded $5,000. Please note that the Part 1 deadline was recently extended due to the Winter Holiday.
NSF is looking to spark the thinking of the best and brightest to co-create a tool that can be tested on a small scale, for NSF, but is intended to be useful to a broad range of employers in both the public and private sectors. Join this opportunity for the general public, research communities, private sector and other interested stakeholders to assist with creating a solution that will invest in the future of the U.S. workforce!
For more information on the NSF Career Compass Challenge:
https://challenge.gov/a/buzz/challenge/86/ideas/top
Back to top.4. Nancy Grace Roman, involved with Hubble telescope, dies
From: Heather Flewelling [heather_at_ifa.hawaii.edu]
"GERMANTOWN, Md. (AP) — Nancy Grace Roman, the first woman to hold an executive position at NASA and who helped with development of the Hubble Space Telescope, has died."
Read more at:
https://apnews.com/dd5233540f364eb1b8c2973446cfde15
Back to top.5. TNW's top 11 women making waves in STEM from 2018
From: Heather Flewelling [heather_at_ifa.hawaii.edu]
By Cara Curtis
"You’ve heard it a million times before — in the science, technology, engineering, and math industries, women are still grossly underrepresented.
Currently, women are only nine percent of IT leaders around the world. The figure has barely changed in the past few years despite one third of organizations claiming to have implemented diversity initiatives. Women make up only 24 percent of computer science jobs — a decline from 37 percent in 1995 — and make up just 11 percent of executive positions in Silicon Valley. While this problem isn’t being fixed fast enough, the following women in STEM are stepping up by tackling the gender imbalance and working to redefine the stereotypical tech industry."
Read more at:
https://thenextweb.com/tech/2018/12/26/tnws-top-11-women-making-waves-in-stem-from-2018
Back to top.6. Hawaii students have IDEAS for a STEM Workforce
From: Heather Flewelling [heather_at_ifa.hawaii.edu]
By Hawaii Community Foundation
"Picture this: Members of a creative robotics team address a real-life problem in their neighborhood — drunken driving. They invent an electronic device to measure blood-alcohol content (BAC) via the steering wheel, using ceramic gas sensors to register the ethanol content emitted from the skin of the driver’s hands."
Read more at:
https://www.hawaiimagazine.com/content/hawaii-students-have-ideas-stem-workforce
Back to top.7. Job Opportunities
- Astronomical Survey Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/98fd1aa6
For those interested in increasing excellence and diversity in their organizations, a list of resources and advice is here: https://cswa.aas.org/#howtoincrease
Back to top.8. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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Back to top.10. Access to Past Issues
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