Friday, June 5, 2020

AASWomen Newsletter for June 5, 2020

Former astronaut Nicole Stott orbits Earth aboard the International Space Station (Credit: NASA)
AAS Committee on the Status of Women AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of June 5, 2020
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson, Alessandra Aloisi, and Jeremy Bailin

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

This week's issues:

1. Cross-Post: AAS President Calls on All Members to Support Black Americans Now

2. Women Leading Pandemic Research Through Time

3. Physicist Tesla Jeltema wins Mentorship Award from American Physical Society

4. Retired astronauts discuss the future of spaceflight ahead of SpaceX Crew Dragon launch

5. Deep Biases Prevent Diverse Talent from Advancing

6. Trailblazers: Lorena Soriano, STEM Diversity Advocate

7. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

8. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

9. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

Thursday, June 4, 2020

Cross-Post: AAS President Calls on All Members to Support Black Americans Now

By Megan Donahue

As AAS President, I wish to comment on the tragic and brutal murders of Black Americans Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor. As scientists, researchers, educators, and human beings we have a responsibility to respond, to see and name these injustices, and to empathize and acknowledge our different human experiences and reactions to these events. We stand together with our Black members, their students, and their families. We stand with our Black AAS employees and volunteers from whom we have asked so much during these difficult and challenging times.

Read more at

https://aas.org/posts/news/2020/06/aas-president-calls-all-members-support-black-americans-now/