Issue of May 20, 2022
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Alessandra Aloisi and Sethanne Howard
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. Crosspost: UW researchers study health outcomes of Black women in academia
2. 2023 AAS Prize Nominations Now Open
3. Women in Astronomy: Advice for Students
5. UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council releases report on gender bias
6. Marilyn Fogel, ‘isotope queen’ of science, dies at 69
7. Groping, Derision, Bias, Threats: Women in Science Face It All
9. Racial and economic barriers kept Carolyn Beatrice Parker from realizing her full potential
11. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
12. 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: UW researchers study health outcomes of Black women in academia
From: Bryné Hadnott via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
Written by Cate Reilly for The Badger Herald
Preliminary results of a University of Wisconsin partner study indicate the high-stress environment of higher education may play a role in the negative mental and physical health outcomes seen among Black women in academics.
The UW School of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis received a grant to expand a study on how racial stress impacts Black women who work in higher education, which started in 2020 in conjunction with the University of Texas-Austin. The study is a mixed-methods format, with the team at UT-Austin doing the quantitative research and the UW team doing the qualitative side via interviews.
In the U.S., Black women’s risk of adverse health outcomes is disproportionately higher than that of white women because of structural inequities within the health system and beyond. The researchers aim to see what these patterns mean for Black women in higher education.
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2022/05/crosspost-uw-researchers-study-health.html
Back to top.2. 2023 AAS Prize Nominations Now Open
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By Alice Monet
Nominations for AAS prizes are open, and all AAS members are invited and encouraged to prepare nominations for themselves or their colleagues to honor important contributions to astronomical research, instrumentation, writing, teaching, and service to the astronomical community.
There are prizes for researchers at all stages of their careers, for amateurs making significant discoveries or valuable contributions to astronomical science, for excellence in education in both formal and informal settings, and for work that supports the community and enables research, engages the public, and informs legislation that benefits our science.
The AAS specifically encourages nominations of, and self-nominations from, astronomers who are members of marginalized groups, including people of color, people with disabilities, and sexual and gender minorities.
The deadline for 2023 prize nominations is 30 June 2022.
Read more at
https://aas.org/posts/news/2022/05/2023-aas-prize-nominations-now-open
Back to top.3. Women in Astronomy: Advice for Students
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
Astrobites interviews Drs. Laura Chomiuk, Ilse Cleeves, Louise Edwards, Kathleen Saavik Ford, Nitya Kallivayalil, Rafaella Margutti, Emily Rice, and Yuanyuan Su on their career advice for students.
Read more at
https://astrobites.org/2022/05/12/whm-advice
Back to top.4. Advancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Competed Space Mission Leadership at NASA Will Require Extensive Efforts Along Entire Career Pathways
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
NASA should continue to bolster its efforts to increase diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) in leadership of competed space science missions, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The report outlines both near- and long-term actions that NASA should take to meet its stated diversity and inclusion goals, such as expanding mentorship and mission-related training opportunities; improving data collection, monitoring, and reporting; and investing in STEM pathways, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and other minority-serving institutions (MSIs).
Read more at
Read highlights and the full report at
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/26385/RH-spacemissiondiversity.pdf
Back to top.5. UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council releases report on gender bias
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By UK Research and Innovation
Responses to a community survey will help to shape actions to address the under-representation of women in engineering and the physical sciences.
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) will explore how to deliver a number of actions, including different modes of application and unconscious bias observers in funding panels.
Findings in the report included: - women are consistently under-represented in EPSRC’s principal investigator (PI) applicant pool across our portfolio - application numbers from women for large grants are particularly low - while award rates by number of grants are similar for men and women, they are not by value of grants - there are notable differences in the size of grants applied for across genders, with women consistently applying for smaller grants.
Read more at
https://www.ukri.org/news/epsrc-takes-action-to-address-gender-bias
Read the full report at
https://www.ukri.org/publications/gender-diversity-in-our-portfolio-survey-findings
Back to top.6. Marilyn Fogel, ‘isotope queen’ of science, dies at 69
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
By Martin Weil
Marilyn Fogel, a scientist dubbed the “isotope queen” for illuminating fundamental scientific questions through analysis of atomic isotope ratios, died May 11 at her home in Mariposa, Calif. She was 69.
Important aspects of her work involved mastery and development of precision techniques to measure quantities on the atomic scale. But much involved field work that included expeditions to far places under hazardous conditions.
In addition, from her earliest days in research, Dr. Fogel observed and overcame many difficulties and indignities confronting women in science. Her interest in a sophisticated version of an instrument vital to her work was once met with a dismissive comment by an engineer: “This is not a mass spectrometer for a housewife.”
Read more at
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/05/16/marilyn-fogel-isotopes-dead
Back to top.7. Groping, Derision, Bias, Threats: Women in Science Face It All
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By Arianne Cohen
Two decades ago, Rachel Ivie attended a conference for women in astronomy in Pasadena, Calif. During a panel on gender demographics, she presented a series of charts depicting the dismal truth: Only 14% of astronomy faculty were female—a little more than half the rate for science and engineering overall. After the panel, several participants approached her to discuss why those numbers were so low when 60% of young astronomers at the time were women. “The question was, what’s going to happen to this big group?” says Ivie, a senior research fellow at the American Institute of Physics (AIP). “Why do women drop out?”
That question continued to nag Ivie, and a few years later she started a long-term study of gender roles in the field, sponsored by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and the AIP. She and her team have followed 1,300 graduate students since 2007, checking in again in 2013 and 2016, with further rounds possible. Some respondents now work outside academia, so the study sheds light on women’s experience beyond the confines of university astronomy or physics departments.
Reads more at
Back to top.8. National Weather Service’s Mary Erickson Talks Organizational Culture, Women in STEM, and the Future of the National Weather Service
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
In this interview, Mary Erickson, the deputy director of the National Weather Service for the past 5 years, discusses her career, equity in STEM, and the role of the NWS.
Read more at
https://www.weather.gov/news/051322-mary-erickson-qa
Back to top.9. Racial and economic barriers kept Carolyn Beatrice Parker from realizing her full potential
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
As part of Popular Science's In Hindsight series highlighting past scientists whose contributions have gone underappreciated comes a profile of Dayton Project nuclear physicist Carolyn Beatrice Parker, the first known Black woman to earn a master’s degree in physics in the United States.
Read more at
https://www.popsci.com/science/carolyn-beatrice-parker-profile
Back to top.10. 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
LSST LINCC Principal Lead Software Engineer, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/eng/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=206120
LSST LINCC Senior Software Engineer, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/eng/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=205410
LSST LINCC Software Engineer, University of Wasington, Seattle, WA
- https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/eng/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=205411
LSST LINCC Principal Lead Software Engineer, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
- https://cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pittsburgh-PA/Principal-Lead-Software-Engineer_2017907
LSST LINCC Senior Software Engineer, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
- https://cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pittsburgh-PA/Senior-Systems-Software-Engineer_2017905-1
LSST LINCC Software Engineer, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
- https://cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pittsburgh-PA/Systems-Software-Engineer_2017904
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