AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of October 18, 2024
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, Ferah Munshi, and Hannah Jang-Condell
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. Crosspost: Meet 2 Innu women trailblazers in astrophysics and land guardianship
2. A member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry shares her perspective on how she and others are trying to expand the nomination pool for the famed awards
3. Beverly Lynds, a pioneer for women in astronomy and astrophysics, advanced the study of dust-and-gas clouds in the Milky Way.
4. Apply to speak at NASA’s next ExoPAG Meeting & Receive ExoPAG/AAS Travel Support
5. Call for New IAU Individual and Junior Members for 2025
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.
By Edzi’u Loverin for CBS News
Laurie Rousseau-Nepton says she wants to understand the very large and the very small, and that's why she became the first Indigenous woman in Canada to earn a PhD in astrophysics.
Rousseau-Nepton received her PhD in 2017 from Université Laval in Quebec City. She said that at the time she wasn't aware she was the first Indigenous woman in Canada to do that.
But she said she did realize that ancestral knowledge from her community was missing in the study of the stars
Read more at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2024/10/crosspost-meet-2-innu-women.html
By Katie Langin
“On Monday, Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede anxiously watched from her home computer as the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced. As a scientist on the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, she knew an all-men slate of physics and chemistry laureates would be announced in the coming days, pending a final vote by members of the Nobel Academy. But she didn’t know who had been chosen for the Nobel that is awarded first.”
Read more at
By Rodney Pommier
“American astronomer Beverly T. Lynds died peacefully on October 5, 2024, at a hospice in Portland, Oregon, after suffering a stroke in early September. She was 95 years old. Beverly Turner was born on August 19, 1929, in Shreveport, Louisiana, but moved to New Orleans at age three. She attended high school there, before moving to Shreveport to attend Centenery College. There, she decided she wanted to become a professional astronomer. She applied to four graduate astronomy programs and was admitted to three. However, shortly after she accepted a position at the University of Chicago, the offer was withdrawn because they’d discovered that she was a female graduate student; Beverley (different spelling) is an uncommon male name.”
Read more at
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/beverly-turner-lynds-1929-2024/
“NASA's Exoplanet Program Analysis Group’s Executive Committee (ExoPAG EC) and NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP) Office invites eligible early career scientists to apply to present at the next ExoPAG meeting (https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/exopag/exopag31/exopag31-overview/). The meeting will be held January 11-12, 2025, as a splinter session of the AAS’s 245th meeting in National Harbor, MD. Selected speakers will be eligible to receive travel reimbursement (e.g. airfare, lodging, meals, AAS registration - based on approved government rates). The ExoPAG EC and ExEP are particularly interested in attendance and presentations by early career scientists from diverse backgrounds.”
Read more at: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/exopag/exopag31/exopag31-abstracts/
“Applications are now open for new Individual Members and Junior Members of the IAU. The timelines for application submission, review and admission run concurrently for Individual and Junior Members.”
Read more at: https://iau.org/news/announcements/detail/ann24027/
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
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
- Teaching Assistant Professor at the UNC Chapel Hill
https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/289669
- Faculty Position at the Associate of Full Professor Level, Cornell University, Department of Astronomy
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28899
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