AAS Committee on
the Status of Women
Issue of September 24, 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:
1. Crosspost: Sian Proctor makes history
with SpaceX's Inspiration4 as first-ever Black female spacecraft pilot
Sian Proctor. NASA photo.
2. Astronomers for Planet Earth: Jessica
Merritt Agnos
3. FAMOUS Travel Grants to Promote
Diversity at AAS Meetings
4. Status of STEM in Europe
5. Jobs
of the Future: How to Use Today’s Skills for Tomorrow’s Industries
6. Job Opportunities
7. How
to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
8.
How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
9. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter
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1. Crosspost: Sian
Proctor makes history with SpaceX's Inspiration4 as first-ever Black female
spacecraft pilot
From: Bryne Hadnott via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
By Chelsea Gohd for space.com
Sian Proctor is making history as the first-ever Black female spacecraft pilot.
Proctor, a geoscientist, artist and science communicator, has been paving the way in the space sector for decades. Now, years after being a finalist in NASA's astronaut candidate program back in 2009, she is realizing her dream of becoming an astronaut as she launches to orbit with the Inspiration4 mission tonight (Sept. 15).
While the mission itself is making history as the first all-civilian mission to launch to orbit, Proctor is accomplishing a major first herself as the first Black female spacecraft pilot.
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2021/09/crosspost-sian-proctor-makes-history.html
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2. Astronomers
for Planet Earth: Jessica Merritt Agnos
From: Bryne Hadnott via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
This feature is part of our ongoing series about the amazing women at Astronomers for Planet Earth (A4E), a global network of astronomers and astronomy enthusiasts dedicated to offering their unique perspective to the fight for climate justice. For this post, we'll hear from Jessica Merritt Agnos, a graduate student studying astrophysics at San Francisco State University (SFSU) with a background in communications and film production.
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2021/09/astronomers-for-planet-earth-jessica.html
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3. FAMOUS Travel
Grants to Promote Diversity at AAS Meetings
From: Camillia Freeland-Taylor via the AAS
News Digest
The FAMOUS (Funds for Astronomical Meetings: Outreach to Underrepresented Scientists) Travel Grants program offers opportunities for AAS members to secure funding to travel to a Society meeting in order to increase the number of astronomers from historically underrepresented groups, which is part of our mission.
FAMOUS grants will be awarded at a level of up to $1,000 to attend a single AAS meeting, at which the awardee will present their research. The proposal deadline is October 15.
Learn more at
https://aas.org/posts/news/2021/09/famous-travel-grants-promote-diversity-aas-meetings
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4. Status of STEM in Europe
From: Stefi Baum [stefi_baum_80_at_post.harvard.edu]
and Sukanya Chakrabarti [chakrabarti_at_astro.rit.edu]
Several resources are available to learn about the status of women in science, technology, engineering, and math fields outside of the United States.
A presentation for the next generation and how they can learn to help each other, including a pdf of the slides, can be found at
http://www.nccr-must.ch/nccr_must/news_4.html?5031
A talk that addresses both science and gender with some personal experience, including a pdf of the slides, can be found at
http://www.nccr-must.ch/nccr_must/news_4.html?5020
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5. Jobs of the Future: How to Use Today’s
Skills for Tomorrow’s Industries
From: Nicolle Zellner
[nzellner_at_albion.edu]
The American Association of University Women has published an article that describes three ways recent graduates can prepare to search for a job during the post-COVID recovery: be ready to pivot, invest in learning new skills, and stay positive.
Read more at
https://www.aauw.org/resources/career/boost-your-career/job-skills/
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6. 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
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Tenure-track
Astronomer, California State University Long Beach
http://tinyurl.com/p5tsft65
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Tenure
Track Professor, Planetary Geoscience, University of Iowa
https://jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view/74285
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Post-doctoral
Research Associate: Future Faculty Fellowship, Princeton University
https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=21901
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Lowell
Observatory Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, Massachusetts
www.lowell.edu/careers
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Postdoctoral
Opportunities, Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics at New York University
https://cosmo.nyu.edu/index.php/opportunities/
- PhD
Positions in Solar System Science, Göttingen, Germany
https://www.mps.mpg.de/phd/applynow
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7. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN
newsletter
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When submitting a job posting for inclusion in the newsletter, please include a one-line description and a link to the full job posting.
Please remember to replace "_at_" in the e-mail address above.
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9. Access to Past Issues
https://aas.org/comms/cswa/AASWOMEN
Each annual summary includes an index of
topics covered.
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