Issue of February 7, 2025
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Sethanne Howard, Ferah Munshi, Nicolle Zellner, Stella Kafka, and Ben Keller
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. Andrea Mosie: Curator of Lunar Samples
2. Vera Rubin’s Bio Altered
3. International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Virtual Celebration in South-East Europe and the Mediterranean region
4. AAS DC Policy Update
5. AAS Solar Physics Division Popular Media Award Nomination Open
6. AAS Staff Available for Colloquia on Public Policy
7. First Recipient of Women in Engineering Fellowship Joins Staff of NRAO
8. As NIH Grant Reviews Resume, NSF Hunts for Flagged Terms
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.
Andrea Mosie calls herself "a Moon person". As she should. For nearly five decades, Andrea has worked at NASA's Johnson Space Center, where she is responsible for curating Apollo lunar samples, a job that is truly out of this world. She helps to allocate the samples to scientists around the world, who then use them for scientific research, studying anything from understanding the Moon's origin and evolution to investigating its bombardment history to inventorying its chemical reservoir that includes water, among other topics. Andrea started the job almost immediately after college (earning degrees in Chemistry and Math from Huston-Tillotson University) and found that the job suited her penchant for organization and having things "just right".
Read more at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2025/02/andrea-mosie-curator-of-lunar-samples.html
By Lisa Song
The federal webpage for an observatory named for the late astronomer Vera Rubin was edited to omit any recognition of the fact that science remains a male-dominated field.
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On 11 February 2025, UNESCO is organising a webinar gathering female scientists to celebrate the 10th anniversary of this important day.
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AAS has issued a statement updating members on federal government policy.
Read more at
https://aas.org/posts/news/2025/02/dc-policy-update
The Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society solicits nominations for the Popular Media Award, which is awarded annually to authors of popular articles or new media (e.g., interactive media and video) about the Sun or its effects on Earth’s environment. Three awards are made: nominally one to a scientist, one to a journalist, and one to a student.
Read more at
https://aas.org/posts/news/2025/01/aasspd-popular-media-award-nomination-open
Interested in hearing about science policy from your AAS Executive Office staff? The AAS will share expenses for a member of our policy staff to come out for a colloquium or more informal talk about science policy and our AAS advocacy efforts.
Read more at
https://aas.org/advocacy/how-aas-advocates/policy-talks
Following a generous grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation, the Central Development Laboratory (CDL) at the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) has selected their first recipient of the postdoctoral Women in Engineering fellowship, Priyanka Mondal.
Read more at
https://public.nrao.edu/news/women-in-engineering-fellowship-cdl/
National Science Foundation staff have been combing through thousands of active science research projects, alongside a list of keywords, to determine if they include activities that are affected by new federal orders.
Read more at
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/02/05/nsf-hunts-female-other-flagged-terms
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