Issue of August 27, 2021
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson, Jeremy Bailin, and Alessandra Aloisi
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:
2. Find mentors everywhere you go
3. Major League Spaceball: Astrophysicist helps boost A’s pitching staff
4. How I tackled post-PhD imposter syndrome
5. Eunice Newton Foote’s nearly forgotten discovery
6. Want More Women in Science? Start Early And Listen To Girls
7. Getting You into Indiana University
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. The experiences of women in graduate physics and astronomy programs - an interview with Ramón Barthelemy and Melinda McCormick
From: Jeremy Bailin via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
Ramón Barthelemy (RB) and Melinda McCormick (MM) have been doing research on the experiences of women in graduate programs in physics and astronomy for the past decade. Dr. Barthelemy is an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Dr. McCormick is an Assistant Professor at Western Michigan University in the School of Social Work. Jeremy Bailin (JB) sat down over Zoom with them to talk about their work.
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-experiences-of-women-in-graduate.html
Back to top.2. Find mentors everywhere you go
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
By Nicolle Zellner
Myriam Telus is an Assistant Professor in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Department at UC-Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on understanding the timing and conditions of solar system formation and early evolution through chemical and isotope analyses of meteorites. In 2020, Dr. Telus received a NASA Planetary Science Early Career Award to continue her meteorite studies and to also develop cosmochemistry and scanning electron microscope facilities at UC-Santa Cruz that will be suitable for storing and analyzing samples returned from the ongoing NASA OSIRIS-REx and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Hayabusa-2 missions.
Read more at
https://womeninplanetaryscience.wordpress.com/2021/08/16/myriam-telus-find-mentors-everywhere-you-go
Back to top.3.Major League Spaceball: Astrophysicist helps boost A’s pitching staff
From: Jay Pasachoff [jmp_at_williams.edu]
By Kerry J. Byrne
"The Major League Baseball team that pioneered Moneyball is on the verge of a new frontier.
Spaceball.
The Oakland A’s have entrusted their rotation to Samantha Schultz, a 26-year-old front-office phenom and pitching analyst with a degree in astrophysics from nearby St. Mary’s College."
Read more at
https://nypost.com/2021/08/14/female-astrophysicist-helps-boost-oakland-as-pitching-staff
Back to top.4. How I tackled post-PhD imposter syndrome
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
Kelsey Inouye’s job search gave her panic attacks and dented her self-esteem. She offers some pieces of advice: take time to do activities you enjoy; take each rejection in stride; take breaks from social media; and build a community early.
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02215-0?
Back to top.5. Eunice Newton Foote’s nearly forgotten discovery
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
By Maura Shapiro
On 23 August 1856, Eunice Newton Foote sat in the audience at an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting in Albany, New York, to attend a talk about her own work. She did not present her research. Instead, surrounded by America’s elite scientists, she listened as Joseph Henry, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, presented—and failed to recognize the implications of—her research on the heat-absorbing properties of carbon dioxide and water vapor. [...]
Perhaps because of Henry’s missteps, perhaps because of her gender, Foote’s groundbreaking conclusions fell into obscurity. For a century and a half, the world has instead remembered John Tyndall, an Irish physicist, as the person who discovered the warming potential of carbon dioxide and water vapor—even though he published his findings three years after Foote.
Read more at
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.4.20210823a/full
Back to top.6. Want More Women in Science? Start Early And Listen To Girls
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
By Marybeth Gasman
Women account for only 29% of the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) labor force and 34.5% of STEM faculty at the nation’s colleges and universities. Women of color are even more underrepresented — making up 4.8% of the STEM workforce and 3.8% of STEM faculty. For decades, researchers have told us that “Girls and women are systematically tracked away from science and math throughout their educations, limiting their training and options to go into these fields as adults.” The challenge is how early do educators and parents need to start with girls in order to eliminate this gender gap.
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Back to top.7. Getting You into Indiana University
The Indiana University Graduate School and the Department of Astronomy are happy to share that IU’s fall recruitment program, “Getting You into IU” for prospective underrepresented and minority PhD students interested in Fall 2022 admission to Indiana University Bloomington (IUB) will take place in person this year. The event begins on Sunday, October 31, 2021 and ends on Tuesday, November 2, 2021. Participants will learn more about IU’s Ph.D. programs, research opportunities, and funding options. Additionally, participants will meet with faculty, staff and current graduate students, attend sessions on preparing competitive applications for graduate admission, how to thrive as a graduate student, and additional IU resources. All participants will receive an application fee waiver for doctoral programs in the IU Graduate School.
More information and the online application can be found at https://graduate.indiana.edu/about/diversity/visit-iu.html Completed applications to participate must be submitted by September 13th.
All travel, lodging, and meals for visiting participants selected for this program are covered by the Indiana University Graduate School.
Read more at
https://graduate.indiana.edu/about/diversity/visit-iu.html
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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