AAS Committee on
the Status of Women
Issue of November 18, 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. On Gender Equality and Imposter
Syndrome: A Case Study and Life Stories by Astrophysicist Jocelyn Graham Bell
3. Female peer mentors early in college have lasting positive impacts on female engineering students that persist beyond graduation
4. Career Development Fellowship for Trans, Non-Binary, and Intersex People in STEM
5. Systemic Racism Reflected in Grant Allocations, Researchers Argue
6. Matching female university students & professionals with high school girls
7. AAAS Awarded Nearly $20M to Establish Three Distinct Initiatives Supporting Representation in STEMM Fields
8. Job Opportunities
9. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
10. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter11. 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.
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1.
On Gender Equality and Imposter Syndrome:
A Case Study and Life Stories by Astrophysicist Jocelyn Graham Bell
From:
Josephine Wong via womeninastronomuy.blogspot.com
On a warm June morning, a crowd of astronomers filed into Exhibit Hall C at the Pasadena Convention Center to listen to the first Plenary Speaker of the AAS 240 conference, astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Burnell, known for her discovery of pulsars in the 1960s, was the year’s recipient of the Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal, which recognizes not only outstanding work in astronomy, but also contributions to the field through leadership, education, and administration. Indeed, Burnell lives up to the mark. She has advocated tirelessly for increasing opportunities and representation of women and other minority groups in physics research. She has done research in almost all wavelengths of astronomy, from radio to gamma rays, and made important discoveries in the field, demonstrating the contribution that women have in astronomy. And her omission from the Nobel Prize, which her advisor, Antony Hewish, received for the discovery of pulsars, sparked controversy over and illustrated how that contribution too often goes unrecognized. For many reasons, Burnell holds rock star status in the astrophysics community. That she was going to appear live (albeit virtually) at the AAS was very exciting.
Read more and see the numbers at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2022/11/on-gender-equality-and-imposter.html
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2.
19th International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES19)
From:
Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
The
19th International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES19) will
take place in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand's largest city, in September 2023.
The conference theme – Shaping the Future – will offer examples of and insights
for women studying and working in STEM (science, technology, engineering and
mathematics), and their advocates, and showcase the potential of science and
engineering to change the world for the better.
Women from around the world are invited to submit their work – from fundamental
research projects to examples of how science and engineering is being applied
in the real world - to be considered for the programme. Abstract submission is
open until December 2022, with the full programme confirmed in early 2023.
"Women
are still under-represented in many areas of science and engineering,
particularly at more senior levels," says Emma Timewell, co-Chair of
ICWES19 on behalf of AWIS. "Being able to bring women together to discuss
not only the amazing work that they do, but also to find ways to improve the
global engagement of women in STEM, is a privilege."
For more information on the conference, including details for abstract submission or sponsoring the conference, go to
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3.
Female peer mentors early in college
have lasting positive impacts on female engineering students that persist
beyond graduation
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
In a recent article, Deborah Wu (Northwestern University) and colleagues reported that “[c]ompared to the male peer mentor and no mentor condition, having a female peer mentor was associated with a significant improvement in participants’ psychological experiences in engineering, aspirations to pursue postgraduate engineering degrees, and emotional well-being.”
Read the peer-reviewed article at
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-34508-x
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4.
Career Development Fellowship for Trans, Non-Binary, and Intersex People in
STEM
From:
Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
The Out to Innovate Career Development Fellowship, formerly known as the Ben Barres Fellowship, is a $2000-$5000 award for professional development of trans, intersex, and non-binary graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
The application window is now open and the application deadline is December 2, 2022, 11:59 pm, Eastern Time.
Learn more at
https://noglstp.org/programs-projects/career-development-fellowship/
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5.
Systemic Racism Reflected in Grant Allocations, Researchers Argue
From:
Nicolle Zellner {nzellner_at_albion.edu]
A study that describes funding disparities at the National Science Foundation (NSF) has been accepted in the peer-reviewed journal eLife. It reports pervasive disparities in the funding rates for scientists from different racial groups, with white scientists at the top and Asian scientists at the bottom. The team behind the study says that the way funding has been allocated reflects systemic racism and calls on the NSF to eliminate the disparities. The conclusions echo outcomes of a 2011 study that looked at the allocations of funds by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), another federal agency, and of a 2022 report from Wellcome, a charitable foundation in the UK that funds research.
Read more at
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v15/173?utm_campaign=weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_source=emailalert
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6. Matching female
university students & professionals with high school girls
From:
Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
The organization connects high school girls with mentors who are professional women in STEM women.
Learn more at
https://womeninstem.org/mentorship
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7.
AAAS Awarded Nearly $20M to Establish Three Distinct Initiatives Supporting Representation in STEMM Fields
From:
Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
by: Valeria Sabate
The American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest
multidisciplinary scientific society, today announced three awards adding up to
nearly $20 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Tiger Global
Impact Ventures (TGIV) and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. These initiatives
will drive a more inclusive science, technology, engineering, mathematics and
medicine (STEMM) ecosystem by:
- Launching a five-year research
and professional development initiative to create evidence-based practices
to support students from low-income backgrounds to increase access,
success, and representation
- Improving postsecondary data
collection and use to understand and address LGBTQ scientists’ educational
and career trajectories
- Building capacity among multi-institutional teams to create equitable pathways for students from Minority Serving Institutions to earn graduate STEMM degrees
Read more at
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8.
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#howtoincrease
- - Tenure-Track
Astronomy/Astrophysics Assistant Professor, Cal State Los Angeles
https://careers.calstatela.edu/la/en-us/job/520157/assistant-professor-astronomyastrophysics
- - Tenure-eligible
Observational Astronomer, the University of Kentucky
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/23329
- - Teaching Assistant or
Teaching Associate Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill
https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/244418
- - Rising Scholar Postdoc
Fellowship, Astronomy Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
https://astronomy.as.virginia.edu/news#2476
- - Postdoctoral
Researcher in Machine Learning and Astrophysics, Heidelberg University,
Germany
https://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php?n1=jobs
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