Issue of December 11, 2020
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson, Alessandra Aloisi, and Jeremy Bailin
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. Be well! --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. The Changing Face of the Nobel Prize
3. STEM superstars call for more gender and cultural diversity
6. The New Face of an Old Nobel
7. Australia gets a national guide to help assess effectiveness of STEM initiatives
8. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
9. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
An online version of this newsletter will be available at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com at 3:00 PM ET every Friday.
1. The Changing Face of the Nobel Prize
From: Vanessa McCaffrey via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
In college, I told everyone that my goal in life was to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. Particle Physics, in fact. Which was odd, because I was a chemistry major and had only taken the introductory physics required for my major. But no mind, winning the Nobel Prize was the ultimate goal in science and its glamour and prestige had captured my imagination. As I continued along in my education—earning my BS in chemistry, a PhD in physical organic and polymer chemistry, and now teaching at a Liberal Arts College—it became clear that my talents would not land me on the stage in Stockholm on any December 10th, but the allure of the Nobel Prize is still there. I teach a class on the Nobel Prize in the Sciences and help initiate a new generation of citizens into the stories, controversies, and science that make up this illustrious award.
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-changing-face-of-nobel-prize.html
Back to top.2. Department of Education investigating single-sex scholarships dedicated to encouraging women in science
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By Emily Walkenhorst
"The U.S. Department of Education this year has opened at least 120 Title IX investigations into colleges and universities for offering “single-sex scholarships.” In many cases, the investigations have pressured colleges to either discontinue their women-only scholarship programs. Many of the scholarships target academic programs in which women are less represented, such as science."
Read more at
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/dec/06/single-sex-scholarships-singled-out
Back to top.3. STEM superstars call for more gender and cultural diversity
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]
They specialize in different science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects but all have one thing in common—they're all STEM superstars.
Associate Professor Kim-Anh Le Cao, astrophysicist Clare Kenyon, Dr. Kylie Soanes, Dr. Maria del Mar Quiroga and Priyanka Pillai have been named Australia's official Superstars of STEM by Science and Technology Australia.
Read more at
Back to top.4. Hawaiian Women in STEM
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]
This episode takes us from the seas to the stars as we talk with some of the impressive women of Hawai’i who are involved in the sciences! From Hawai’i Island, Kyla Edison shares about her research and work with PISCES, and what it was like to live in the HI-SEAS Mars habitat. We talk with navigator Dr. Haunani Kane to hear about her journey from a student of Nainoa Thompson to her voyage around the world on the Hokule’a. We chat with Kamehameha Schools, senior Taylor Moniz, and learn more about her recent first place win in a prestigious science competition, and finish off at Bishop Museum to see their new star compass outside on the lawn.
Read more at
https://www.khon2.com/modern-wahine-hawaii/episode-204-women-in-stem
Back to top.5. Meet the Artemis Team
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
NASA has named 18 astronauts to its Artemis Team, to "help pave the way for the next lunar missions". These missions will see the first woman and the next man set foot on the Moon in 2024. Of the 18 astronauts, 50% identify as women.
Read more at
and
https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis-team
Back to top.6. The New Face of an Old Nobel
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By Melanie Fine
"The Nobel Prize Ceremonies are taking place this week (December 7 and 8) and they look a little different than years past... while the world is preoccupied with Covid-19 and rushing a vaccine to market, the Nobel Prize committee quietly achieved a scientific milestone, awarding prizes in the physical sciences to three women -- UCLA's Andrea Ghez shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering what is believed to be a black hole in the center of the Milky Way. UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna and Max Planck Institute’s Emmanuelle Charpentier shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their achievement in developing CRISPR-Cas9, a DNA-editing tool that can search for and edit or remove disease-causing DNA sequences."
Read more at
https://www.forbes.com/sites/melaniefine/2020/12/08/the-new-face-of-an-old-nobel/?sh=7ee606e14031
Back to top.7. Australia gets a national guide to help assess effectiveness of STEM initiatives
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu] and Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
By Aimee Chanthadavong
In a bid to standardise programs designed to increase female participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), the Office of Women in STEM Ambassador has published a national guide to help those running these gender equity programs to evaluate the effectiveness of their initiatives.
The Evaluating STEM Gender Equity Programs guide is an online resource that provides advice, planning tools, and other guidance, and has been organised into five steps: Define, plan, design, execute, and share.
Read more at
Read the guide at
https://womeninstem.org.au/national-evaluation-guide
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