Issue of March 27, 2020
eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and Alessandra Aloisi
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. Be well --eds.]
This week's issues:
2. 2020 NASA Science Mission Design School Applications Now Due April 13, 2020
3. The Gruber Foundation (TGF) fellowship 2020
4. When girls are the shero of the story
5. US national academy pushes to make grants contingent on gender equity
6. Women’s lives might look very different in the next 3 decades – if we tear down barriers at work
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 Message on COVID-19
From: JoEllen McBride and Katie Eckert via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
We realize this message comes late in the COVID-19 pandemic and there have already been many posts by those more qualified to write about viruses and pandemics. But we wanted to reach out to our community as the virus continues to spread. Like us, you may be worried about your health, the health of your family and friends (near and far), your jobs and research, figuring out working from home potentially on top of caring for children or parents, the general state of the country and the world. We encourage you to do what you need to stay safe.
In this era of social distancing and shelter-in-place orders, we have put below some suggestions for staying connected, keeping engaged, and entertaining children. We welcome your suggestions (please comment below), which we will add to the list below. If you have other concerns, please reach out to wia-blog AT lists.aas.org.
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2020/03/a-message-on-covid-19.html
Back to top.2. 2020 NASA Science Mission Design School Applications Now Due April 13, 2020
From: Leslie L. Lowes [leslie.l.lowes_at_jpl.nasa.gov]
We are extending the deadline and encouraging applications for the NASA Science Mission Design Schools – the 32nd Annual Planetary Science Summer School (PSSS) and the Heliophysics Mission Design School Pilot (HMDS, adapted from PSSS). These are 3-month long career development experiences to learn the development of a hypothesis-driven robotic space mission in a concurrent engineering environment while getting an in-depth, first-hand look at mission design, life cycle, costs, schedule & the trade-offs inherent in each.
Science & engineering doctoral candidates, recent PhDs, postdocs, junior faculty, & certain master’s degree students, who are U.S. Citizens or legal permanent residents (& a very limited number of Foreign Nationals from non-designated counties) are eligible. Applicants from diverse backgrounds are particularly encouraged to apply.
Learn more about the program at
http://go.nasa.gov/missiondesignschools
Back to top.3. The Gruber Foundation (TGF) fellowship 2020
From: Nancy Morrison [nancy.morrison_at_utoledo.edu]
The deadline for applications for The Gruber Foundation Fellowship 2020, promoting the science of cosmology and other branches of astronomy, is approaching: March 31st.
Learn more about the Fellowship at
https://www.iau.org/science/grants_prizes/gruber_foundation/fellowships
Back to top.4. When girls are the shero of the story
From: Maria Patterson [maria.t.patterson_at_gmail.com]
By Google Cloud Blog Team
“Cloud Googler Komal Singh’s path has taken her from India to Waterloo, Canada, where she’s an engineering program manager working on serverless products. Her 20% project at Google resulted in the publication of her first children’s STEM book, Ara the Star Engineer, which follows a young girl who uses coding to tackle big dreams and meets real-life women trailblazers. Her recent TED Talk, “Recoding Stories at Scale,” talks about exploring technology and AI in creative ways to represent minorities and girls in books in ways that inspire them.
Here, she shares her path to working in technology”
Read more at
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/helping-girls-see-themselves-as-engineers
Back to top.5. US national academy pushes to make grants contingent on gender equity
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]
By Chris Woolston
"The US national academy is urging funders to subject institutions to ‘equity audits’ to increase the representation of women — especially those from minority ethnic groups — in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM)."
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00865-0
Back to top.6. Women’s lives might look very different in the next 3 decades – if we tear down barriers at work
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]
By Rosamond Hutt
"The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2020 estimates it will take 99.5 years to achieve gender parity at the current rate of progress.
A century is a long time to wait, so, looking to the near future, we asked two experts for their thoughts on what might happen to women’s earnings and career opportunities in the next 10, 20 and 30 years.
Here’s what they told us."
Read more at
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/women-working-lives-gender-equality-international-womens-day
Back to top.7. Job Opportunities
For those interested in increasing excellence and diversity in their
organizations, a list of resources and advice is here:
https://aas.org/comms/cswa/resources/Diversity
-Astronomy lecturer at UCF
https://jobs.ucf.edu/en-us/job/498747/lecturer-physics
-Visiting Assistant Professor, Physics, Albion College (MI)
https://apply.interfolio.com/75159
-Termed faculty position at the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University
http://www.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/2020/03/koubo2020-13.pdf
8. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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Back to top.9. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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Back to top.10. Access to Past Issues
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