“Beacon of Hope” by Nettrice Gaskins (2021) portraits legendary astronomer and activist Harriet Tubman (from Item 5)Issue of February 04, 2022
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Alessandra Aloisi, Jeremy Bailin and Sethanne Howard
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. Be well! --eds.]
This week's issues:
2. First female director appointed for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
3. Tana Joseph appointed Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Coordinator for Dutch astronomy
4. Carolyn Beatrice Parker, the first African-American woman to gain a postgraduate degree in physics
5. Harriet Tubman, Astronomer Extraordinaire
6. Lack of Diverse STEM Workforce a Challenge for States, U.S.
7. Survey of gender bias in the IPCC
8. Gender discrepancies in STEM
10. Webinar Series: New Horizon – Pathways For Women in Citizen Science Astronomy
11. 2022 NASA Planetary Science Summer School
12. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
13. 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. Crosspost: #BlackInQuantum
From: Bryne Hadnott via http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
By R.M. Davis for Symmetry Magazine
“The sixth person to earn a doctoral degree in physics from an American institution was African American scientist Edward Alexander Bouchet. It was 1876, just 11 years after the US had adopted a constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery.
Never again have African Americans made up such a large percentage of US physicists. In fact, it would take another 42 years before a second African American man earned a physics PhD in the United States.”
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2022/02/crosspost-blackinquantum.html
Back to top.2. First female director appointed for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Ashley Strickland
“For the first time in its 85-year history, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a female director. Geochemist and space scientist Laurie Leshin will serve as the director for JPL as well as the vice president of the California Institute of Technology, both located in Pasadena. Faculty and students from Caltech founded JPL in 1936 and have managed the laboratory on behalf of NASA since 1958.”
Read more at
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/28/world/nasa-jpl-first-female-director-scn/index.html
Read NASA press release at
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/caltech-names-laurie-leshin-director-of-jpl
Back to top.3. Tana Joseph appointed Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Coordinator for Dutch astronomy
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By Astronomie.nl
“Dr. Tana Joseph has been appointed coordinator of the Netherlands Astronomy Equity and Inclusion Committee (NAEIC), which advises the Netherlands Astronomy Council. The NAEIC consists of astronomers and astronomy engineers of all astronomical institutes, departments and organizations in the Netherlands, and is headed by Dr. Samaya Nissanke (University of Amsterdam) as an independent chair.”
Read more at
Back to top.4. Carolyn Beatrice Parker, the first African-American woman to gain a postgraduate degree in physics
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By Stephen Roberson
“Carolyn Beatrice Parker was born in Gainesville, Florida on November 18, 1917. Over the course of her career, Carolyn graduated from college with a bachelor’s degree in physics, taught at several public high schools and two colleges, was a scientist with the Manhattan Project (Dayton, Ohio site), earned two master’s degrees, one in mathematics, the other in physics, and worked as a technical analyst at a large military research laboratory. Carolyn Parker died in 1966, at age 48, and is buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Gainesville.
Today's post is a bio-essay provided to NSBP by Dr. Ronald Mickens concerning the life of Carolyn Beatrice Parker. Dr. Ronald E. Mickens is a mathematical physicist, researcher, and university professor at Clark Atlanta University. He is an NSBP fellow and one of the earliest members of NSBP. Dr. Mickens also writes about the influence of early African American scientists, including several biographies of African American women scientists and a historical paper titled The African American Presence in Physics.”
Read more at
https://nsbp.org/blogpost/1997746/432864/February-3-2022--Carolyn-Beatrice-Parker
Back to top.5. Harriet Tubman, Astronomer Extraordinaire
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
“Polaris, the North Star, is so named because it always points toward true north. Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman used the North Star to liberate herself - then went South over and over again, using it to liberate both family and strangers.”
Read more at
Read about the Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Project at
https://msmagazine.com/tubman200
Back to top.6. Lack of Diverse STEM Workforce a Challenge for States, U.S.
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Carl Smith
“A new report from the National Science Foundation (NSF) finds that the U.S. is no longer the world leader in key measures of scientific accomplishment such as awarded patents and published papers. The greatest intensity of research and development efforts, says the 2022 edition of The State of U.S. Science and Engineering, is shifting to countries in East-Southeast and South Asia.”
Read more at
https://www.governing.com/now/lack-of-diverse-stem-workforce-a-challenge-for-states-u-s
Read the NSF report at
https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb20221/executive-summary
Back to top.7. Survey of gender bias in the IPCC
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
As members of the Task Group on Gender of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Diana Liverman (University of Arizona) and co-authors present results of their 2018 report, which "included the results of a survey of IPCC participants that showed ongoing gender biases and barriers." The authors describe subsequent actions and the report sets out what still needs to be done as the IPCC wraps up its sixth assessment cycle in 2023.
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00208-1
Back to top.8. Gender discrepancies in STEM
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By: WiSE students Jessica Harrington, Courtney Randall, Janis Santos and Madeline Wright
“Individuals who belong to different minority groups go to their place of work expecting to be treated in the same way that everyone else is treated, but often the mistreatment they experience ends up making it hard to even be at work. That mistreatment is experienced for women in science, technology, engineering and mathematical (STEM) fields. The STEM field is male-dominated, making it challenging for women to gain any acknowledgment or recognition as they advance through their career, thus leading to even more negative impacts. These challenges can make it hard for any woman to succeed in the STEM careers and may make them wonder if they should even enter a STEM field.”
Read more at
https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/blogs/2022/gender-discrepancies-in-stem
Back to top.9. Join Women In Government for a Twitter Chat in honor of International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Using State Policy to Advance Women and Girls in Science
From: Lindsey Eggsware [leggsware_at_womeningovernment.org]
Women In Government (WIG) would like to invite Women In Astronomy’s participation in an upcoming WIG LIVE Twitter Chat: Using State Policy to Advance Women and Girls in Science on Friday, February 11, 2021 at 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm ET, in honor of International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Women In Astronomy can contribute a lot of knowledge, facts and insight on this topic and WIG would love for you to participate.
The questions WIG will be asking during this Twitter Chat, along with relevant hashtags to use in your responses, will be released to confirmed participants no later than one week before the Twitter Chat, on or before Friday, February 4, 2022.
If you are interested in participating in this Twitter Chat, please confirm your participation to WIG Communications Coordinator Lindsey Eggsware no later than Tuesday, February 1, 2022. Late RSVPs will also be accepted, so it is not too late to register!
Read more at
Back to top.10. Webinar Series: New Horizon – Pathways For Women in Citizen Science Astronomy
From: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
Shristi Astronomy is planning a set of 5 talks/webinars on Women in Astronomy with a focus on Citizen Science and Projects that can be done to initiate women in astronomy. The series will start on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Feb 11, 2022, and will run until March 10, 2022.
Read more at
https://shristiastro.com/international-day-of-women-and-girls-in-science
To register
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_d648jsHjkrHAr4ICP_II-wmQbwN30wDBgx-i-GMsbTh10g/viewform
Back to top.11. 2022 NASA Planetary Science Summer School
From: Leslie L. Lowes [Leslie.L.Lowes_at_jpl.nasa.gov]
NASA is accepting applications for the 2022 Planetary Science Summer School (PSSS) – from engineering students close to completion of their MS degree, science and engineering post-docs, recent PhDs, doctoral students, junior faculty. PSSS is a 3-month long science mission design career development experience with the workload equivalent to a university graduate course. Sessions are run by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA from May 9 – August 5, and May 23 – August 19, 2022. Applications are due March 30, 2022.
Read more and apply at
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/intern/apply/nasa-science-mission-design-schools
Register for a PSSS Application Q&A Webinar on March 1, 2022 from 3-4 pm Pacific Time at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewn4_AYNhXiMJ8Z_FOI0VwyrPw1juCwIzYD4ZsYKa1EDkeYg/viewform
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