AASWomen Newsletter for May 26, 2023

Item 2: new book by women in STEM

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of May 26, 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. Cross-post: Vera Rubin Lives On in Lives of the Women She Helped in Astronomy
2. Lessons Learned: Stories from Women Leaders in STEM
3. Society for the Social Studies of Science meeting - abstracts due TODAY
4. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
5. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
6. 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.

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1. Cross-post: Vera Rubin Lives On in Lives of the Women She Helped in Astronomy

From: Bryne Hadnott via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com

The "mother of dark matter" was a force of nature — and a forceful advocate for other women who wanted to dedicate their career to the cosmos.

Read more at

http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2023/05/crosspost-vera-rubin-lives-on-in-lives.html

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2. Lessons Learned: Stories from Women Leaders in STEM

From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]

"Lessons Learned: Stories From Women Leaders in STEM," published by the American Association for Physician Leadership and edited by Deborah M. Shlian, MD, MBA, addresses the lack of women in STEM careers through the first-person accounts of notable women who have excelled in a range of STEM-related leadership roles.

The women in this book are leaders in many different STEM disciplines and in many different sectors, including academia, industry, and government institutions like the FDA and NIH.

Read more at

https://www.physicianleaders.org/publications/books/lessons-learned-stories-from-women-leaders-stem-shlian?v=42194402640052

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3. Society for the Social Studies of Science meeting - abstracts due TODAY

From: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]

By Jarita Holbrook

This is a reminder that abstracts are due for the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) meeting on May 26, 2023 [TODAY!]. Remote participation is an option. The conference is November 8th - 11th, 2023.

Read more at

https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions.php

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Crosspost: Vera Rubin Lives On in Lives of the Women She Helped in Astronomy

The “mother of dark matter” was a force of nature—and a forceful advocate for other women who wanted to dedicate their career to the cosmos. Credit: Tulika Bose for Scientific American. 

 

AASWomen Newsletter for May 19, 2023

AAS Committee on the Status of Women

Issue of May 19, 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:

 Frontispiece to Bryan's astronomy book.
Credit: Fred Zwicky

1. Cross-post: Why Peer Mentors Are Crucial for Women in STEM

2. Mysterious Author of Early Astronomy Textbooks Unveiled – Researcher Uncovers New Details   

3. Gender parity – or not?

4. Why aren’t we acting on the evidence of what works for gender equality?

5. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

6. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

7. 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.

Cross-post: Why Peer Mentors Are Crucial for Women in STEM

By Rebecca Coglianese for Inside Higher Ed

iStock photo

We recently celebrated Women’s History Month, and the month prior was International Women and Girls in Science Day, a time to reflect on what all women have accomplished in STEM fields. This day, and every day, I remember the important women who charted pathways and helped me become the scientist I am today.

I am proud to be part of a world where we strive for equal representation. I often think of Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered the first neutron star—although her male adviser received the Nobel Prize for doing so.

I look forward to my future as a physicist focused on the niche world of braneworld research—the fascinating study of neutron stars and how gravity interacts with the universe. I am also studying an alternative gravity model and aim to broaden my course selection in graduate school to study new fields of planetary and galaxy life cycles, stellar dynamics, and solar plasma physics research. I want to show other young women that they, too, can play an important role in the research of the physical laws of our universe and all the other fields of science that keep our world spinning.

Read more at

https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/04/28/why-peer-mentors-are-crucial-women-stem

Eds note:

In 2013, John Johnson wrote about the Importance of Mentoring for Fostering Diversity and in 2022, Wu et al. published a study that showed Female peer mentors early in college have lasting positive impacts on female engineering students that persist beyond graduation.

AASWomen Newsletter for May 12, 2023

Henriques, Casino, and Yadao-Ellazar, item 3.

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of May 12, 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. AAS Ethics Policies, Procedures, and the Path Forward
2. Crosspost: Woman On A Mission: How This Fil-Am Engineer Rose Through The Ranks At NASA
3. Three Hawaii girls impress at NASA
4. AAS Members Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
5. AAS Resolution in Support of LGBTQIA+ Individuals in Astronomy
6. Volunteer on an AAS Committee or Working Group
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.

Crosspost: Woman On A Mission: How This Fil-Am Engineer Rose Through The Ranks At NASA

By Christina M. Oriel, for Asian Journal

"I REALLY wasn’t interested in space," confesses Josephine Santiago-Bond... The Filipina-American engineer never anticipated that her experiences would culminate in a career revolving around missions and exploration in outer space.

It was 15 years ago when Santiago-Bond first landed an internship at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Photo Credit: NASA Public Affairs

Today, she’s the head of the Advanced Engineering Development Branch at the center, a division she helped create that extends engineering support to the agency’s various missions in space, on Earth and other planets.

Read more about her life and career trajectory at

https://www.asianjournal.com/.../woman-on-a-mission-how.../

 

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AASWomen Newsletter for May 5, 2023

 

Francine Schmitz (1955)

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of May 5, 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. Crosspost: An Interview with AAS President-Elect Dara Norman
2. Podcast for extrodinary women who are scientists
3. Grandma got STEM
4. May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
5. LGBT professional networks
6. Gender gap found in research grant award amounts, re-applications
7. Job Opportunities
8. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
9. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
10. 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.

Crosspost: An Interview with AAS President-Elect Dara Norman

By Ashley Walker, Howard University

Ashley Walker is a planetary science PhD student at Howard University and member of the AAS Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy (CSMA). She sat down with Dr. Norman, who was elected to be the next AAS President by AAS members earlier this year, to discuss the path that led her to astronomy, the mentors who influenced her, and what she aims to accomplish during her term as AAS president.

Dara Norman, AAS

A legacy I would like to see is basically that there's not one way to be an astronomer, and that there are opportunities available for people who decide that they love astronomy, but writing a bunch of papers is not where they want to be. What they want to do is communicate to students, or they want to communicate to the public, or they want to help other astronomers get their data and get their research done. Or they want to go into policy, and they want to make sure that there is funding and opportunity for the people who do want to write a million papers. But I really think that there are a lot of ways to do this, and the more credit we give to all of the people who are making it possible for all of us to do this kind of work, the better the field will be, and the more accessible the field will be. So hopefully that will be part of the legacy that I leave behind.

Read more at

https://aas.org/posts/news/2023/04/interview-aas-president-elect-dara-norman