Issue of November 3, 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: How 3 women scientists have overcome gender bias and stereotypes in astronomy, genetics, and mathematics
2. Dr. Jennifer Lotz Appointed Space Telescope Science Institute Director
3. NASA astrophysics research and analysis
4. AAS 243 Child/Dependent Care Grants
5. Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group
6. BRITE Girls Online STEM Practices
7. Two astronauts conduct fourth ever all female space walk
8. The African Network of Women in Astronomy
9. Asteroid Institute Annual Report 2023
10. NASA’s Sandra Irish Wins 2023 Society of Women Engineers Award
11. Proposal Deadline for IAU scientific meetings in 2025
12. Job Opportunities
13. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
14. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
15. 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.
By: Fairoza Mansor for the South China Morning Post
The presence of women in science should be normalized today, but research shows that there is some catching up to do. According to the Unesco Institute of Statistics’ data, focused on women working in science, fewer than 30 per cent of the world’s research scientists are women.
Read more at:
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2023/11/crosspost-how-3-women-scientists-have.html
By: Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)
"The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Jennifer Lotz as the Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). Dr. Lotz will begin her five-year appointment as STScI Director starting February 12, 2024. Previously, Dr. Lotz was the Director of the International Gemini Observatory which is operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, and managed by AURA.
“Dr. Lotz is a science driven, accomplished leader,” said Dr. Matt Mountain, President of AURA, which manages STScI on behalf of NASA. “Jen’s passion for the Institute’s mission, to enable the science community in its exploration of the ground-breaking science coming from both JWST and Hubble, and her compelling vision, will ensure an exciting future as she leads STScI into a new era of space science.””
Read more at
By: NASA
Astrophysics Research and Analysis (APRA) solicits basic research proposals for investigations that are relevant to NASA's programs in astronomy and astrophysics and includes research over the entire range of photons, gravitational waves, and particle astrophysics.
Strategic Astrophysics Technology (SAT) supportsthe maturation of key technologies for potential infusion in spaceflight missions. The SAT program is designed to support the maturation of technologies that have already been demonstrated to be feasible (i.e., TRL 3), to the point where they can be incorporated into NASA flight missions (TRL 6).
ROSES-2023 Amendment 60 makes several significant changes to D.3 APRA and D.7 SAT.The changes are summarized in the bold notice at the top of each program element and new text is in bold and deleted text is struck through. The due dates are unchanged: Mandatory Notices of Intent are due December 15, 2023, and proposals are due January 31, 2024.
On or about October 30, 2023, this Amendment to the NASA Research Announcement "Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2023" (NNH23ZDA001N) will be posted on the NASA researchopportunity homepage at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2023 and will appear on SARA's ROSES blog at: https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/grant-solicitations/roses-2023/
Questions concerning D.3 APRA may be directed to Dominic J. Benford at Dominic.Benford@nasa.gov and David C. Morris at David.C.Morris@nasa.gov. Questions concerning D.7 SAT may be directed to Mario R. Perez at mario.perez@nasa.gov.
Read more at:
https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2023
The financial burden of child and adult dependent care affects the Society’s members. The impact can be so great that it often prevents attendance at meetings, especially for early career scientists or those at small institutions with limited funding. The AAS and its Divisions are committed to helping members with dependents attend meetings; therefore, members may apply for subsidized dependent care services during a meeting, for use either at the meeting location or at home. Deadline: Monday, 11 December. These are available only to AAS members.
Read more at:
https://aas.org/content/childdependent-care-grant-application
NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG) will hold its twenty nineth meeting January 6th through the 7th, 2024 immediately preceding the 243rd AAS meeting in New Orleans, LA. This will be a hybrid meeting. The agenda will include programmatic updates of relevance for the ExoPAG community, science updates and descriptions of exciting new capabilities, updates from Science Interest Groups and Study Analysis Groups, as well as the regular business meeting.
ExoPAG meetings offer an opportunity to participate in discussions of scientific and technical issues in exoplanet exploration, and a forum for community input on the prioritization of activities in NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program(ExEP). All interested members of the space science community are invited to attend and participate. Suggestions for topics and/or speakers at the meeting along these lines are welcome.
ExoPAG and NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP) Office invites early career scientists, postdocs and graduate students to consider presenting at the ExoPAG 29 meeting January 6-7 in New Orleans, LA. Organizers are particularly interestedin attendance and presentations by postdocs and graduate students from diverse backgrounds.
Read more at:
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/exopag/exopag29/exopag29-overview/
By: National Girls Collaborative Project
BRITE Girls Online STEM Practices: Building Relevance and Identity to Transform Experiences is a Research in Service to Practice National Science Foundation Grant led by Florida State University, in partnership with NGCP and Smart Girls HQ. The project examines the STEM identity development of girls via the implementation of an online learning community. NGCP is recruiting girl-serving informal science education programs to participate in Year 2 of the project. The Brite Program provides an online suite of activities centered on collaborative learning and engagement with diverse women role models for self-identifying girls ages 13-16. The application closes December 15, 2023, 3:00 PM Pacific / 6:00 PM Eastern.
Read more at:
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2215138&HistoricalAwards=false
By: space.com
Expedition 70 crewmates Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara replaced a bearing to keep the solar arrays on the International Space Station (ISS) rotating properly and conducted other maintenance activities, but ran out of time to finish the other major task planned for the spacewalk, the removal of an electronics box from a communications antenna.
Read more at:
https://www.space.com/nasa-all-female-spacewalk-november-2023
By: African Astronomical Society
The African Network of Women in Astronomy (AfNWA) is an initiative that aims to connect women working in astronomy and related fields in Africa. It was established in September 2020 as one of the committees under AfAS. With AfNWA we would like to guarantee future participation of girls and women at all levels in astronomy and science developments in Africa. Our main objectives are improving the status of women in science in Africa, and using astronomy to inspire more girls to do STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). Read more at:
https://www.africanastronomicalsociety.org/afnwa/
The 2023 Annual Report of the Asteroid Institute is now available.
Read more at:
https://b612foundation.org/2023-asteroid-institute-annual-report/
By: NASA
Sandra Irish, mechanical systems lead structures engineer for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has been selected to receive the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Resnik Challenger Medal Award for her visionary contributions to the development, testing, transport, and launch of NASA’s premier space telescope since 2006. The medal was awarded during the World’s Largest Conference for Women in Engineering and Technology or WE23, which took place Oct. 26-28 in Los Angeles.
Read more at:
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-sandra-irish-wins-2023-society-of-women-engineers-award/
By: Diana Worrall, IAU Assistant General Secretary
This is a reminder that December 1st is the deadline for submitting proposals for IAU scientific meetings to be held during 2025.
It is not a necessary condition to have already submitted a Letter of Intent (LoI), but you are strongly advised to consult your proposed Coordinating Division (and any supporting Divisions) for advice and supporting letters before submitting a proposal. The LoIs that were received are posted at https://iau.org/science/meetings/proposals/loi/2025/
For full instructions, please consult the Rules and Guidelines for IAU Scientific Meetings that are available at https://www.iau.org/science/meetings/rules/
You will find listings of past and scheduled IAU symposia at https://iau.org/science/meetings/past/symposia/ and https://iau.org/science/meetings/future/symposia/
The IAU looks forward to receiving your proposals.
Read more at:
https://www.iau.org/science/meetings/rules/
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 Assistant Professor, Astrophysics, University of Cincinnati
- Tenure track Astronomer, Appalachian State Univeristy, Boone, North Carolina
https://appstate.peopleadmin.com/postings/42361
- Assistant Professor in geosciences, geophysics, geobiology, planetary and/or exoplanetary science, New York University
https://as.nyu.edu/departments/physics/information/jobs.html#2
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