Issue of March 7, 2025
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Sethanne Howard, Ferah Munshi, Stella Kafka, and Ben Keller
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. Helen Hogg: Giving the Stars to Everyone
2. Against the odds: 12 women who beat bias to succeed in science
3. Katy Perry and Gayle King are among 6 women headed to space aboard New Shepard
4. 8 Trailblazing Women Educators Who Paved the Way at UC San Diego
5. Patrice Smith Named 2025 DPS-NSBP Speaker
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.
In honor of Women's History Month and in celebration of the 86th anniversary of the publication of her definitive catalogue of variable stars in globular clusters, we offer this article about Dr. Helen Hogg, first published in Sky & Telescope in September 2024.
Read more at: https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2025/03/crosspost-helen-hogg-giving-stars-to.html
A book deftly highlights how women have been considered unsuitable as researchers for reasons other than their ability and commitment.
Read more at: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00617-y
Blue Origin’s next crewed flight mission aboard its tourism rocket, expected to lift off this spring, will carry an all-female crew to space. Journalist Gayle King, singer Katy Perry and bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyen are among the six-person crew who will launch on the New Shepard vehicle.
Read more at: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/science/blue-origin-all-female-spaceflight/index.html
They studied the stars. They revolutionized medicine. They reshaped the way we think. They led. They taught. They inspired. Throughout UC San Diego’s 65-year history, women have been at the forefront of education and mentorship—leading in labs and lecture halls, shaping new frontiers in research and breaking barriers in their fields.
Read more at: https://today.ucsd.edu/story/8-trailblazing-women-educators-who-paved-the-way-at-uc-san-diego
Within the partnership between the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP), Earth and Planetary Systems Sciences (EPSS) section, Patrice Smith is recognized as the newest DPS-NSBP Speaker awardee.
Read more at: https://aas.org/posts/news/2025/03/patrice-smith-named-2025-dps-nsbp-speaker
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
- Astronomy tenure track position at Green River College
https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/greenriveredu/jobs/4694584/astronomy-tenure-track
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