Friday, May 1, 2020

AASWomen Newsletter for May 01, 2020

AAS Committee on the Status of Women AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of May 01, 2020
eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, Alessandra Aloisi, and Jeremy Bailin

[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]

This week's issues:

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1. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine Symposium on Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women in STEMM

2. FOUR SUCCESSFUL WOMEN BEHIND THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE'S ACHIEVEMENTS

3. Join us for a webcast of our third of four regional workshops on the Underrepresentation of Women of Color in Tech!

4. NASA Implements New Harassment Reporting Requirements

5. What will it take to close the gender gap in physics?

6. Rubin Observatory Logo Design Survey

7. The broken Nobel prize dream that launched a mentoring platform

8. Only 6% Of US Scientists Are Latinas – But These Inspiring Colombian Girls Could Change That

9. The Stars Could Help Unify Us

10. Job Opportunities

11. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

12. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

13. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter


1. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine Symposium on Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women in STEMM
From: Regina Jorgenson via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com

On March 19 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a one day long, online Symposium on Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine). The purpose of the Symposium was to share the results and key findings of a recent study aimed at addressing the underrepresentation of women in STEMM. The study was jointly sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and L’Oreal USA.

Read more at

http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2020/04/national-academies-of-sciences.html

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2. FOUR SUCCESSFUL WOMEN BEHIND THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE'S ACHIEVEMENTS
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]

Learn about the four women who played the largest role in Hubble's many successes.

Read more at

https://hubblesite.org/hubble-30th-anniversary/hubbles-exciting-universe/four-successful-women-behind-the-hubble-space-telescopes-achievements

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3: Join us for a webcast of our third of four regional workshops on the Underrepresentation of Women of Color in Tech!
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]

Improving the representation of women of color in science, engineering, and medicine is a national imperative. To contribute to addressing this issue, an ad hoc committee under the auspices of CWSEM will conduct a consensus study to identify the factors that contribute to the underrepresentation of women of color in science, engineering, and medicine.

Read more at

https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/addressing-the-underrepresentation-of-women-of-color-in-tech

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4. NASA Implements New Harassment Reporting Requirements
From: Maria Patterson [maria.t.patterson_at_gmail.com]

By Andrea Peterson

Starting this month, NASA-funded institutions are required to notify the agency whenever they determine a principal or co-investigator has violated policies concerning harassment or assault, or if the personnel are placed on leave due to a harassment investigation. NASA modeled the policy on one first implemented by the National Science Foundation in 2018.

Read more at

https://www.aip.org/fyi/2020/nasa-implements-new-harassment-reporting-requirements

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5. What will it take to close the gender gap in physics?
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]

By Daniel Strain

"When Patricia Rankin was a young scientist in the 1980s, colleagues and acquaintances often told her that she didn't look like a physicist.

At the time, Rankin assumed that they were complimenting her sense of style.

"I thought, "That's because I dress well and don't have a pocket protector,'" said Rankin, now a professor in the Department of Physics at CU Boulder. "I remember being 40 and realizing that they were actually saying, "Tricia, you're a woman, and we don't know many women physicists.'""

Read more at

https://phys.org/news/2020-04-gender-gap-physics.html

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6. Rubin Observatory Logo Design Survey
From: José Pinto Randolph [jose.pinto.r_at_icloud.com]

Dear friends of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory,

We are pleased to contact you to tell you that we are starting to develop the Rubin Observatory logo and visual identity and we would love to have your feedback!

We have prepared a short (under 5 minutes) open survey to obtain your comments and ideas, as we believe that your input would give us an idea of what is important to the general public. Since the survey is open, you can also share it with a family member or friends whom you want to complete this survey. The responses will be used to guide the graphic development of the logo and will provide us with an objective way to evaluate the candidate logos.

This survey will remain available until May 10, 2020, and we hope to reveal the new logo later in the year.

The survey is here: https://forms.gle/uzXJee5eUTW5uWSE8

Thank you for participating and be safe!

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7. The broken Nobel prize dream that launched a mentoring platform
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]

Amal Amin, who founded Women in Science Without Borders (WISWB) to support researchers in Egypt and beyond, discusses what it's like to "work in a region where research is grossly underfunded, and gender biases lurk in many corners." She also describes her motivation for launching WISWB, a networking and coaching platform for men and women at all career stages.

Read more at

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01274-z

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8. Only 6% Of US Scientists Are Latinas – But These Inspiring Colombian Girls Could Change That
From: Maria Patterson [maria.t.patterson_at_gmail.com]

By Andrew Wight

"In a remote corner of Colombia, girls are getting excited about science– and one day they may join the sizable chunk of the U.S. science and engineering workforce that is made up of those born overseas."

Read more at

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewwight/2020/04/29/only-6-of-us-scientists-are-latinas--but-inspiring-colombian-girls-could-change-that/#3239b965ac5b

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9. The Stars Could Help Unify Us
From: Pat Knezek [pknezek_at_gmail.com]

By Duilia de Mello

"As an astronomer, I am accustomed to observing the cosmos in quiet places. But since the start of self-isolation, it’s so quiet that my own heartbeat is the only background noise. I observe galaxies in the deep universe, in places so far away that their light takes billions of years to reach our eyes. I am used to contemplating this immensity and seeing how little our planet seems in comparison."

Read more at

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-stars-could-help-unify-us

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10. Job Opportunities

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

- Fast Radio Burst Follow-up Research Fellow, Maria Mitchell Observatory https://www.mariamitchell.org/research-and-collections/astronomy/research/fast-radio-burst-follow-up-research-fellow-job-ad

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