Left: Angelou Crater on Mercury. Right: Portrait of Maya Angelou by Steve Dunwell (images from item # 3)Issue of February 28, 2020
eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and Alessandra Aloisi
This week's issues:
1. Rest in Power Katherine Johnson
2. NASA Dual-Anonymous Peer Review Town Hall
3. Memorialized on Mercury: A Monument to the Life and Work of Maya Angelou
4. 37 Women Who’ve Upended Science, Tech, and Engineering For the Better
5. Astronomy Expands Its Scope From the Heavens to Humans
6. The woman who explained the stars
7. Study: Gender Inequality Persists in Science Careers and Publishing
8. The Activist Group MeTooSTEM Is Facing Allegations Of Harassment Against Its Own Leader
9. ‘The spark has ignited.’ Latin American scientists intensify fight against sexual harassment
10. Women's History Month event on Science, Sex, and Gender
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. Rest in Power Katherine Johnson
From: JoEllen McBride via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
“It is always difficult when a hero passes on. But celebrating their accomplishments, and the path they paved for others, is a great way to empower future generations of scientists. Katherine Johnson, a NASA mathematician whose calculations help send astronauts into Earth orbit and eventually to the Moon, passed away earlier this week.”
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2020/02/rest-in-power-katherine-johnson.html#more
Back to top.2. NASA Dual-Anonymous Peer Review Town Hall
From: JoEllen McBride via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
NASA’s Astrophysics Division held a virtual Town Hall on February 27, 2020, at 1pm ET to discuss the implementation of dual-anonymous peer review for the Astrophysics General Observer and General Investigator (GO/GI) programs. A second Town Hall will be held on Tuesday, March 3 at 12:30pm to discuss the four conventional ROSES programs.
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2020/02/nasa-dual-anonymous-peer-review-town.html#more
Read more about how these changes in the NASA peer-review process were inspired by a successful experiment with the Hubble Space Telescope at
https://www.space.com/nasa-hubble-telescope-dual-anonymous-test-astrophysics.html
Back to top.3. Memorialized on Mercury: A Monument to the Life and Work of Maya Angelou
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]
By Jordan M. Bretzfelder
“As we celebrate Black History Month, there is no better time to remember the life and work of the poet, memoirist, dancer, singer, actress, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou (1928-2014). This year, her legacy deserves extra attention. On September 19th, 2019, 50 years after the publication of her most famous work and first autobiography, “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings”, a new and permanent monument to her contributions to literature and the arts was approved by the International Astronomical Union (a.k.a the IAU). You may be wondering what outer space has to do with the first Black woman to publish a nonfiction best seller.”
Read more at:
https://womeninplanetaryscience.wordpress.com/2020/02/25/maya-angelou-crater-on-mercury
Back to top.4. 37 Women Who’ve Upended Science, Tech, and Engineering For the Better
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]
By Courtney Linder
“From Grace Hopper to Elizabeth Magie, these are the inventors who have shaped STEM as we know it.”
Read more at
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a26998723/womens-history-month-stem-inventions
Back to top.5. Astronomy Expands Its Scope From the Heavens to Humans
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]
By Sarah Scoles
“Every 10 years, astronomers weigh in on the state of their field. For the first time, they're tackling Earth-centric issues like gender bias and diversity.”
Read more at
https://www.wired.com/story/astronomy-expands-its-scope-from-the-heavens-to-humans
Back to top.6. The woman who explained the stars
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]
By Giuseppina Fabbiano
“Public acclaim escaped one of the twentieth century’s most illustrious astronomers, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin; a new biography sets her in the firmament.”
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00509-3
Back to top.7. Study: Gender Inequality Persists in Science Careers and Publishing
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu] and JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]
By Lois Elfman
“Four scientists, Dr. Albert-László Barabási, Dr. Alexander J. Gates, Dr. Roberta Sinatra and Dr. Junming Huang, have taken a new approach to examining gender differences in scientific disciplines in academia. They had seen evidence that female scientists publish fewer articles throughout their careers and their work receives fewer citations. To build a comprehensive picture, they opted for a longitudinal analysis of academic publishing.”
Read more at
https://diverseeducation.com/article/168041
Read the original study published in a PNAS article at
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/02/14/1914221117
Back to top.8. The Activist Group MeTooSTEM Is Facing Allegations Of Harassment Against Its Own Leader
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]
By Peter Aldous
“Two individuals on the group’s three-person leadership team have resigned, a week after one of them wrote to the group’s governing board calling for MeTooSTEM’s controversial founder, BethAnn McLaughlin, to step down. The two leaders, Angela Rasmussen and Teresa Swanson, had backed a Chinese American MeTooSTEM volunteer, Jaedyn Ruli, who complained that McLaughlin had harassed them. Ruli has also resigned from the group.”
Read more at
Back to top.9. ‘The spark has ignited.’ Latin American scientists intensify fight against sexual harassment
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Lindzi Wessel, Rodrigo Perez Ortega
“For decades, from his base at the University of Los Andes (Uniandes) in Bogota, Colombia, biologist Adolfo Amezquita Torres made his name studying the diverse, jewellike poisonous frogs of the Andes and the Amazon. But on campus, he compiled a darker record, former and current students have alleged in dozens of complaints. They say he mistreated women, including by favoring and emotionally abusing female students he was dating and retaliating against those who rejected his advances or complained about his behavior. Earlier this month, university officials concluded he was guilty of sexual harassment and misconduct and fired him in a watershed moment for the university—and for a growing effort to fight sexual misconduct on campuses across Latin America.”
Read more at
Back to top.10. Women's History Month event on Science, Sex, and Gender
From: Nancy Morrison [nancyastro126_at_gmail.com]
On Friday, March 13, the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine will host a Women's History Month event on Science, Sex, and Gender. Moderated by Harper Jean Tobin (National Center for Transgender Equality), a panel of experts will explore the role of science in evolving and expanding notions of sex and gender.
Read more and register at
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