AAS Committee on
the Status of Women
Issue of April 14, 2023
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle
Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:
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| Elizabeth Roemer (lowell.edu) |
2. Announcing .Astronomy 12 in NYC, Oct 2-5, 2023
3. Since the late 19th century, adventurous female ‘eclipse chasers’ have contributed to science in Australia
4. Who was Elizabeth Roemer?
5. Flipping the Script to Support Wider Engagement with Physics
6. The future of scientific societies
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.
RFI Advancing Racial Equity and
Support for Underserved Communities in NASA Procurements and Federal Financial
Assistance
From:
Hannah Jang-Condell [hannah.jang-condell_at_nasa.gov]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) to receive input from the public on the barriers and challenges that prevent members of underserved communities (as defined in Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government, and Executive Order 14091, Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government) from participating in NASA's procurements, grants, and cooperative agreements. With this RFI, NASA is seeking for the public to provide specific feedback on the procurement, grant, and cooperative agreement regulations, policies, practices, and processes that deter entities from pursuing opportunities for NASA procurements, grants, and cooperative agreements. NASA will review inputs received and may use this information to evaluate, implement, modify, expand, and streamline procurements, grants, cooperative agreements, regulations, policies, practices, and processes to remove systemic inequitable barriers and challenges facing members of underserved communities.
Read more at
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2.
Announcing .Astronomy 12 in NYC, Oct 2-5, 2023
From:
Kelle Cruz [kellecruz_at_gmail.com]
We are thrilled to announce that .Astronomy 12 will take place from Tuesday October 3 to Thursday October 5 at the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) in New York, NY. There will also be an optional Day 0 tutorial day on Monday, October 2 and an optional continued hacking day on Friday, October 6.
.Astronomy is not a traditional conference. .Astronomy is a gathering of around 100 astronomy enthusiasts, passionate about how the web and technology can transform our science. It's an opportunity to both expand your toolset for research, communication and collaboration and to broaden your view on an astronomy career. One hallmark of .Astronomy is a full-day hack day.
The event will be mostly in person, but we will plan to live broadcast and record the plenary talks. We will be using Slack as our primary discussion forum where folks who cannot make it in person can also participate.
To learn more, visit
https://www.dotastronomy.com/twelve
If you are interested in attending, please fill out the interest form no later than May 31 at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSff5ZsX0z1LiNdN8K6Fy9tP1Nd6yOS8o61ydDgUZD0aVIl0fA/viewform
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3.
Since the late 19th century, adventurous female ‘eclipse chasers’ have
contributed to science in Australia
From: Jeremy Bailin {jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By Toner Stevenson
Accounts of well-known historic discoveries in astronomy might leave the impression this work was only undertaken by men. But in the late 19th and early 20th century, women in Australia already participated in astronomy as female “computers” and amateur astronomers. They were deeply involved in scientific expeditions to view total solar eclipses, but it was not easy.
Read more at
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4.
Who was Elizabeth Roemer?
From:
Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
A recent article by Zdenek Sekanina describes the extensive astrometric observations of the double comet Wirtanen (C/1956 F1) made by Elizabeth Roemer of the US Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station, which have never been published.
Read the article at
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.02872.pdf
Learn more about Elizabeth Roemer at
https://lowell.edu/2022/09/16/who-was-elizabeth-roemer/
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5.
Flipping the Script to Support Wider Engagement with Physics
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
Discussing the profiles of physicists from minoritized groups with high school students keeps students from such groups engaged in physics beyond school.
Read more at
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/s41
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6.
The future of scientific societies
From:
Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
By Jennifer Sills
[The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which publishes the journal Science] turns 175 years old this year. AAAS’s mission is to advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. To celebrate this milestone and explore AAAS’s anniversary theme of “igniting progress for the next 175,” we asked young scientists, “How have scientific societies affected your career, and how can societies best support scientists in the future?”
Read a selection of the responses at
https://www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagazine/library/item/07_april_2023/4093208/
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