Issue of February 28, 2025
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Sethanne Howard, Ferah Munshi, Stella Kafka, and Ben Keller
[Apologies for the belated newsletter. We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. Spotlight on Dr. Beth Brown
2. Years After the Early Death of a Math Genius, Her Ideas Gain New Life
3. Two in five scientists in our survey reported harassment and intimidation. Often, the perpetrators are inside the institution
4. UNESCO launches "Imagine a world with more women in science" campaign
5. Women and Girls in Science and Technology 2025: reaching out to over 4700 pupils
6. Dr. Nia Imara’s ‘Painting The Cosmos’ Underscores the Connections in Everything
7. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
8. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
9. Access to Past Issues
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Beth Brown was born February 4, 1969. She grew up in Roanoke, Virginia watching reruns of Star Trek and was enthralled with Star Wars, and both fueled her love for the stars. In high school she visited an observatory, where she viewed the Ring Nebula through a telescope. That school trip impacted her deeply, and after graduation, Brown decided to pursue astronomy.
Read more at: https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2025/02/spotlight-on-dr-beth-brown.html
In the early 2000s, a young graduate student at Harvard University began to chart an exotic mathematical universe — one inhabited by shapes that defy geometric intuition. Her name was Maryam Mirzakhani, and she would go on to become the first woman to win a Fields Medal, math’s highest honor.
Read more at: https://www.quantamagazine.org/years-after-the-early-death-of-a-math-genius-her-ideas-gain-new-life-20250303/
The goal of science is to uncover truths and create new knowledge. But this is not always welcome. Increasingly, scientific findings are being attacked or downplayed. And scientists themselves face intimidation or harassment. In a global study of more than 2,000 scientists across six areas of science (including astronomy), two-fifths (41%) of respondents had, as a result of their work, been harassed or intimidated at least once over a five-year period.
To mark the 10-year anniversary of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, UNESCO launches the campaign "Imagine a world with more women in science" on 11 February 2025, supported by Canada’s International Development Centre (IDRC). This campaign demonstrates the essential role women play in driving progress in science and calls on the global community to not only envision, but also work towards, a more gender-balanced scientific community where every voice is heard.
Read more at: https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/unesco-launches-imagine-world-more-women-science-campaign
From 10 to 14 February, 76 ambassadors from CERN, the University of Geneva (UNIGE), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and the Annecy Particle Physics Laboratory (LAPP) visited schools in the region to inspire young people and show them that science is accessible to everyone. Some 215 presentations were given to approximately 4730 pupils aged from 5 to 16.
Read more at: https://home.cern/news/news/knowledge-sharing/women-and-girls-science-and-technology-2025-reaching-out-over-4700
The book Painting The Cosmos challenges the notion that science and art exist in separate worlds; it also illustrates of how everything in this universe is actually connected. There is no separation, only slight differences. And from this diversity of cosmic forces, comes life itself.
Read more at: https://www.kqed.org/arts/13972095/nia-imara-painting-the-cosmos-book-astronomy-art
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