Sally Ride, the first female U.S. astronaut to fly into space, will be honored on a 2022 circulating coin (Credit: NASA/USMint/collectSPACE)Issue of April 16, 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:
2. NASA’s Artemis program will land the first person of color on the moon
3. UAE Appoints two new astronauts, including woman
4. US Mint to honor astronaut Sally Ride on 'American Women' quarter
5. Could the Pandemic Prompt an ‘Epidemic of Loss’ of Women in the Sciences?
7. Applications sought for the 2021 Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship
9. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
10. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
11. 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. NASA/JPL named two sites on Mars after an author and an engineer. Here’s why you should know them, too.
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By George Petras “A celebrated Black science fiction author who believed she could write better stories than those in B-grade movies, and a former NASA senior director who gazed at the stars while growing up in a remote part of Africa have been honored with Mars Perseverance sites named after them.” Read more at
Back to top.2. NASA’s Artemis program will land the first person of color on the moon
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Ashley Strickland
“The Artemis program will land the first person of color on the moon, according to NASA. The new goal for the program, which seeks to land the first woman and the next man on at the lunar south pole by 2024, comes from the Biden-Harris administration.”
Read more at
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/09/world/nasa-artemis-person-of-color-crew-scn/index.html
Back to top.3. UAE Appoints two new astronauts, including woman
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.ed]
“The United Arab Emirates named the next two astronauts in its space program Saturday, including the country’s first female astronaut.”
Read more at
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/gulf/2021/04/10/UAE-appoints-two-new-astronauts-including-woman
Back to top.4. US Mint to honor astronaut Sally Ride on 'American Women' quarter
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
“The first female U.S. astronaut to fly into space will be honored by the United States Mint in 2022, leading off a series of circulating coins depicting notable American women.
Sally Ride, who famously made history launching on the space shuttle in 1983, will be featured as part of the Mint's American Women Quarters Program. The late astronaut will be one of the first two women represented on the new coins, which will be issued through 2025.”
Read more at
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-041421a-sally-ride-us-mint-american-women-quarters.html
Back to top.5. Could the Pandemic Prompt an ‘Epidemic of Loss’ of Women in the Sciences?
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Apoorva Mandavilli
“Like many women during the pandemic, Alisa Stephens found working from home to be a series of wearying challenges.
Dr. Stephens is a biostatistician at the University of Pennsylvania, and the technical and detail-oriented nature of her work requires long uninterrupted stretches of thought. Finding the time and mental space for that work with two young children at home proved to be an impossibility.”
Read more at
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/health/women-stem-pandemic.html
Back to top.6. NOVA: Picture A Scientist
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
The April 14 episode of the PBS show NOVA, entitled Picture a Scientist, explores underrepresentation and discrimination in science, along with efforts to make science more inclusive.
Watch the episode at
https://video.wttw.com/video/picture-a-scientist-rlnmdy
Back to top.7. Applications sought for the 2021 Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship
From: Joseph Heaven [heaven_at_cantab.net]
Do encourage promising, young, U.K.-based astrophycists and astronomers in your networks to apply for the 2021 Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureships. The deadline is 30th April 2021.
The prize awarded by the Herschel Society, in association with the U.K.'s Royal Astronomical Society, celebrates Caroline’s memory and supports promising female astronomers early in their careers, more than 1 year post PhD viva date.
Read more and apply at
http://herschelsociety.org.uk/caroline-herschel-prizelectureship
Back to top.8. Upcoming SHIELD Webinar: A Path Towards Creating Effective Scientific Presentations (Fri May14th, 2021 2:00 PM EST)
From: ShieldOutreach [shieldoutreach_at_bu.edu]
Speaker: Heather Elliot
This webinar is designed to set you on a path towards creating effective presentations. Presentations are a key way of advertising your work and an integral part of establishing collaborations. We go over general advice for making scientific presentations at conferences, and more formal presentations to clients and government agencies (e.g. NASA Preliminary Design Reviews and Critical Design Reviews). The advice includes how to prepare presentations, and how to give presentations. We provide some advice for dealing with common problems encountered during presentations.
To register
https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vdemvrTMjGt0ECcz2tI1Prb36DWq7eou_
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