Issue of August 26, 2022
eds: Jeremy Bailin, 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. Career Profile: Staring into the Sun and Finding Community with Dr. Samaiyah Farid
2. This NASA Astronaut Will Become the First Native American Woman in Space
3. One in Seven
6. Investments in outreach may improve diversity, trust in science
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
An online version of this newsletter will be available at http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/ at 3:00 PM ET every Friday.
1. Career Profile: Staring into the Sun and Finding Community with Dr. Samaiyah Farid
From: Bryné Hadnott via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
Dr. Samaiyah Farid is a postdoctoral researcher in the astrophysics department at Yale University studying the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona. She earned both her bachelors and masters of science at Alabama Agricultural & Mechanical University, before graduating with her doctoral degree in astronomy and astrophysics at Vanderbilt University.
Read more at:
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2022/08/career-profile-staring-into-sun-and.html
Back to top.2. This NASA Astronaut Will Become the First Native American Woman in Space
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By Madeleine Muzdakis
" As of March 2022, only 75 women have ever flown in space, according to NASA. Humankind has only been capable of such flight for about 60 years, but it took decades for women to have equal opportunities to test their scientific knowledge and courage in the great beyond. The NASA astronaut class of 2013 was the first to include equal numbers of men and women. In 2022, one member of that class—astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann—will set a record of her own as the first Native American woman to fly in space."
Read more at
https://mymodernmet.com/nicole-mann-native-american-woman-in-space
Back to top.3. One in Seven
From Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
By: John Lienhard
"One German astronomer in seven was a woman during the late 1600s. One in seven! Those were masculine times. The Protestant Reformation put women in the home, not in the academies. Yet the complex mathematical life of astronomy drew women in. Those were times of radical scientific change. We were building the modern scientific method on experiments. Historian Lhonda Shiebinger explains how, in Germany, women found an odd door into this new life of the mind. That door didn't lead into the academies. It led into the trades. The trade tradition was strong in Germany. Women could take up any work that looked like a trade. The new scientific work had just that look and feel."
Read more at
https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi407.htm
Back to top.4. Bringing Change to NASA
From: Sethanne Howeard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
By: Lori Garver
"As NASA’s deputy administrator, “Escaping Gravity” author Lori Garver fought to cancel the Constellation program and shift NASA to use commercial partnerships in spaceflight. She failed at the first but succeeded at the second. She discusses the lessons she learned from her time at NASA, key strategies for bringing change to a reticent bureaucracy, and the ways in which NASA should serve the nation and the public."
Hear the discussion at
https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/lori-garver-bringing-change-to-nasa
Back to top.5. Women Astronomers' Day
By: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
August 1 in the United States is Women Astronomers' Day. This year they celebrated the work of Maria Mitchell. It is a wonderful thing to have; however, it is time to switch the names. I am not a woman astronomer. By sticking the gender in front of the job one assumes that withut the gender the job is the other gender. So an 'astronomer' would automatically be male. This is wrong. I am an astronomer who happens to be a woman. Let us be conscious of how we use the language. Also August 26 is Women's Equality Day.
Back to top.6. Investments in outreach may improve diversity, trust in science
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By Win Reynolds for Science Daily
"There's a disconnect between the goals and the delivery of scientific outreach and its actual impact. In recent years, communication around diseases like COVID-19 and a growing mistrust in science have made that gap even more apparent.
To better understand where these disconnects occur, Northwestern University scientists conducted a survey of 530 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff at U.S. academic institutions to examine their motivations and barriers to participation in science outreach.
Science outreach, sometimes referred to as public engagement with science, creates connections between scientific and non-scientific communities. The study, published today in Frontiers in Communication, found scientists and academic institutions can use science outreach as a way to promote diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion within STEM fields.”
Read more at
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220824130744.htm
Read the full study at
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2022.907762/full
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