Issue of January 15, 2021
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. Apply for the Carnegie Astrophysics Summer Student Internship Program
2. Madam starmaker: Henrietta Swan Leavitt transformed a powerful astronomical tradition
3. Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson: A lifetime shattering glass ceilings in math and science for Black women
4. That's One Hot Job! How Kelly Korreck Became An Astrophysicist
5. Gage: Quashing the Matilda Effect
6. No Gender Bias in Peer Review: Study
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
An online version of this newsletter will be available at http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com at 3:00 PM ET every Friday.
1. Apply for the Carnegie Astrophysics Summer Student Internship Program
From: Gwen Rudie via womeninastronomy.blogpost.com
The Carnegie Astrophysics Summer Student Internship Program (CASSI) is a 10 week, paid internship and educational program based at Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, CA. CASSI welcomes a diverse cohort of 10-15 undergraduates annually, most of whom are students at colleges and universities in Southern California. CASSI Interns collaborate with Carnegie astronomers on original research projects from studying exoplanets to distant galaxies. Some CASSI interns also work with Carnegie scientists and engineers on the next generation of cameras and spectrographs for our telescopes.
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2021/01/apply-for-carnegie-astrophysics-summer.html
Back to top.2. Madam starmaker: Henrietta Swan Leavitt transformed a powerful astronomical tradition
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By Jeff Glorfeld
"People today might think of Harvard for its legal and business studies but from its early days it was known as a centre of scientific research. Less known is the role that women played at Harvard in developing astronomy as a science. Prominent among these starry women was Henrietta Swan Leavitt, born on 4 July 1868 in Lancaster, Massachusetts."
Read more at
https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/madam-starmaker
Back to top.3. Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson: A lifetime shattering glass ceilings in math and science for Black women
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By Mikhaela Singleton
"Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson says she never imagined herself as a role model. She is the President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an accomplished theoretical physicist. She's also the first African-American woman to ever receive a doctorate from MIT, to be chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the only woman and African-American to be RPI president, among many other glass ceiling-shattering achievements."
Read more at
Back to top.4. That's One Hot Job! How Kelly Korreck Became An Astrophysicist
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
"You can't be what you can't see. So how do you get exposed to more fields? The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) IF/THEN Ambassador program is working to solve that problem. They are creating a culture shift recruiting more girls and women into Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). There is a new exhibit of 122 statues of women in STEM, featuring different scientific backgrounds, interests, ages, and career stages.
Dr. Kelly Korreck is one of the scientists with a lifesize 3D printed statue of herself."
Read more at
Back to top.5. Gage: Quashing the Matilda Effect
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
"Request a Woman in STEMM" is now Gage, named for Matilda Gage, who wrote about how women scientists had been erased from history over the course of the 19th century. Gage was created to ensure the contributions of women and gender minorities in science are acknowledged and rewarded, and its search platform is the world’s first and largest directory of women and gender minorities in STEMM. It serves as a valuable resource for people seeking the expertise of underrepresented voices in these professions.
Read more at
https://500womenscientists.medium.com/gage-quashing-the-matilda-effect-5d917f55a0e1
and at
http://gage.500womenscientists.org
Back to top.6. No Gender Bias in Peer Review: Study
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
By Jef Akst
"To understand if the peer-review process is at all to blame for the gender gap seen in scientific publishing, University of Milan sociologist Flaminio Squazzoni and colleagues teamed up with representatives from Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, and Springer Nature to collate data from nearly 350,000 papers across 145 journals that could shed light on this question.
The results ... suggest that at no point in the editorial process are women at a disadvantage. While female scientists publish fewer articles than their male counterparts across scientific disciplines, they also submit fewer manuscripts, and following submission, their articles were treated more favorably than men's were. However, ... this doesn't mean women don't face discrimination in their careers."
Read an interview with the lead author at
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/no-gender-bias-in-peer-review-study-68320
Read the peer-reviewed article at
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/2/eabd0299
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#howtoincrease
- Assistant Professor, Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL http://apply.interfolio.com/82727
- Associate Editor, The Planetary Society, Pasadena, CA https://www.planetary.org/careers/associate-editor
Back to top.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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