Issue of November 17, 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. FAMOUS Travel Grant applications due November 20
2. A Family Affair
3. 1400 degrees
4. Profiles of Australian women and non-binary people in STEM
5. We achieved gender parity in astronomy in just five years
6. Smith College Earns Award from Physics & Astronomy SEA Change Program
7. Virginia Louise Trimble Awarded 2024 Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics
8. Job Opportunities
9. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
10. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
11. 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.
The American Astronomical Society is offering opportunities for AAS members to secure funding to travel to a Society meeting in order to increase the number of astronomers from historically underrepresented groups.
The initiative is called the FAMOUS (Funds for Astronomical Meetings: Outreach to Underrepresented Scientists) Travel Grants Program. FAMOUS grants are awarded at a level of up to $1,000 to attend a single AAS meeting, at which the awardee will present her or his research. Priority will be given to members of historically underrepresented groups, such as scientists at small colleges, minorities, non-traditional students, and veterans, among others. The funding will not cover the meeting registration fee, but is intended to offset expenses for travel, meals, and lodging. Recipients of FAMOUS grants may not apply again until three years have passed.
Read more and apply at
https://aas.org/grants-and-prizes/famous-travel-grants
By Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, and Sethanne Howard
It’s not atypical for children to follow in the footsteps of their parents or for siblings to have similar career paths. During our research for various other blog posts, the editors of AASWomen were surprised to see so many family connections in the field of Astronomy and extending to planetary science and physics. We shouldn’t have been – the mother-daughter planet hunters Natalie and Natasha Batalha have already caught the attention of various news outlets. We tweeted a request for more family connections in these fields and were inundated with examples, which we list here in roughly chronological history.
Read more at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2023/11/a-family-affair.html
1400 Degrees was launched in 2021 by the Heising-Simons Foundation as a database and community space for women and gender minorities studying and working in the fields of astronomy and physics. The database is a useful place to look for colloquium speakers, award nominees, job candidates, potential mentors, etc. Additionally, we feature individuals from the database in interviews that can be great tools for early career scientists to learn about the lives and career paths of women and gender minorities in the field. Finally, we host in-person networking and community-building events at scientific conferences. Join the community to take part, and please spread the word!
Learn more at
Here are a couple of nice profiles on the Australian government website:
Women and girls in STEM: Deanne Fisher
Deanne Fisher leads a research team that uses telescopes across the planet (and in orbit) to study galaxies and the formation of stars.
Read more at
https://www.industry.gov.au/news/women-and-girls-stem-deanne-fisher
Non-binary people in STEM: Camelia Walker
Dr Camelia Walker provided vital modelling for Australia’s COVID-19 response. They talk about the joys of epidemiology research and the challenges of being a transgender nonbinary person in STEM.
Read more at:
https://www.industry.gov.au/news/non-binary-people-stem-camelia-walker
by EurekAlert!
Around the world, research agencies are struggling to achieve gender parity.
A paper published in Nature Astronomy today reports how a national Australian astronomy centre achieved equal numbers of women and men using science.
Read more at
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1007766
by AAS
Smith College Physics Department has earned a Bronze Award from the Physics and Astronomy SEA Change Committee (P/A SEA Change) for their work to create a more inclusive and diverse physics department. This marks not only the first P/A SEA Change award but also the first disciplinary award in SEA Change.
Read more at:
https://aas.org/posts/news/2023/11/smith-college-earns-award-physics-astronomy-sea-change-program
For other information and updates about Sea Change, please see
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2023/11/physics-and-astronomy-sea-change-updates.html
by APS
Citation: "For extensive contributions to the history of astrophysics, particularly for reference works, articles, and biographical essays, especially works that include female astronomers, and for supporting the history of the physics community."
Background: Virginia Trimble is a native Californian and graduate of Hollywood High School, UCLA (BA 1964), and the California Institute of Technology (PhD 1968), with an honorary doctorate from the University of Valencia, Spain (2010). Her early astronomical research focussed on white dwarfs, supernovae and their remnants, and statistics of binary stars. She gradually transitioned to scientometrics (attempting to be quantitative about how science is done), and then to the history of astronomy and physics, when she realized that many things she had experienced as current events - the discovery pf quasars, the cosmic microwave background, pulsars, black hole X-ray binaries, and gamma ray bursts - had somehow become history.
Read more at:
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
- Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Observations of Galaxy Evolution, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ. Initial application deadline January 1, 2024
https://apply.interfolio.com/136024
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