Friday, April 28, 2023

AASWOMEN Newsletter for April 28, 2023

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of April 28, 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:

1. Nominations Open Soon for 2024 AAS Prizes
2. NASA To Expand Cutting-Edge Science At Emerging Research Institutions
3. What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
4. Margaret Hamilton
5. Unsupportive workplaces forcing women out of STEM careers
6. Job Opportunities
7. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
8. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
9. Access to Past Issues

An online version of this newsletter will be available at http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/ at 3:00 PM ET every Friday.


1. Nominations Open Soon for 2024 AAS Prizes
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]

It’s that time again -- the kickoff of the next round of AAS prizes!

Read more at

https://aas.org/posts/news/2023/04/nominations-open-soon-2024-aas-prizes

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2. NASA To Expand Cutting-Edge Science At Emerging Research Institutions
From: Padi Boyd and Nicolle Zellner via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com

"NASA has announced two new funding programs to support, enhance, and enable cutting-edge science at emerging research institutions. These institutions include primarily undergraduate institutions, community colleges, minority-serving institutions, such as historically black colleges and universities, hispanic serving institutions, and tribal colleges and universities. Combined, these institutions enroll ~75% of undergraduate students across the United States."

Read more at

http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2023/04/nasa-to-expand-cutting-edge-science-at.html

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3. What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
From: Michael D. Barton [darwinsbulldog_at_gmail.com]

by Matthew Cobb & Nathaniel Comfort

"Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player."

Read more at

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01313-5

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4. Margaret Hamilton
From: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]

Margaret Elaine Hamilton (born Heafield on August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program. She later founded two software companies—Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Hamilton has published more than 130 papers, proceedings, and reports, about sixty projects, and six major programs. She invented the term "software engineering", stating "I began to use the term ‘software engineering’ to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process."

On November 22, 2016, Hamilton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from president Barack Obama for her work leading to the development of on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Moon missions.

Read more at

https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11Hamilton.html

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5. Unsupportive workplaces forcing women out of STEM careers
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]

by University of South Australia

"Women pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and math are still fighting an uphill battle in Australian workplaces, despite a spike in girls studying STEM subjects in schools and universities."

Read more at

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-unsupportive-workplaces-women-stem-careers.html

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6. 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

- The Maria Mitchell Association seeks applications for two 1-year long Research Fellow positions.
https://www.mariamitchell.org/post-baccalaureate-research-fellowship

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7. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter

To submit an item to the AASWOMEN newsletter, including replies to topics, send email to aaswomen_at_lists.aas.org .

All material will be posted unless you tell us otherwise, including your email address.

When submitting a job posting for inclusion in the newsletter, please include a one-line description and a link to the full job posting.

Please remember to replace "_at_" in the e-mail address above.

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8. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter

Join AAS Women List through the online portal:

To Subscribe, go to https://aas.simplelists.com, and in the "Subscribe" area, add in your name, email address, select "The AASWomen Weekly Newsletter", and click subscribe. You will be sent an email with a link to click to confirm subscription.

To unsubscribe from AAS Women by email:

Go to https://aas.simplelists.com, in the "My account and unsubscriptions", type your email address. You will receive an email with a link to access your account, from there you can click the unsubscribe link for this mailing list.

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9. Access to Past Issues

https://aas.org/comms/cswa/AASWOMEN

Each annual summary includes an index of topics covered.

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