Issue of December 17, 2021
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. Meet Your CSWA: Karly Pitman
3. This female coder wrote the Apollo project by hand
4. Remembering Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt
5. How to end the hemorrhaging of senior women in STEM
6. Virtual conferences are better for the environment and more inclusive
7. Professional development opportunity for women and gender minority graduate students and postdocs
9. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
10. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
11. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter
An online version of this newsletter will be available at http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com at 3:00 PM ET every Friday.
1. Meet Your CSWA: Karly Pitman
From: Bryne Hadnott via http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
This is the seminal feature for our series highlighting the newest members of the American Astronomical Society's Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy. For today's post, meet Dr. Karly Pitman, the executive director and senior research scientist at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Dr. Pitman earned her A.B. in Astronomy and Geology from Vassar College and completed her PhD at Louisiana State University. She's worked on a wide range of projects in space science from examining spectra of the martian surface to analyzing the composition of interstellar dust.
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2021/12/meet-your-cswa-karly-pitman.html
Back to top.2. Discovering Dr. Wu
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By Jada Yuan
"The world reveres Chien-Shiung Wu as a groundbreaking nuclear physicist who made a startling find 65 years ago. But to me, she was Grandma - and I long to know more about her private universe.
Someone pulled a cord and yellow fabric billowed down, revealing a three-story-tall statue of my grandmother.
It was May 2012, in a city just north of Shanghai. And there she loomed, a sculptor’s rendition of Chien-Shiung Wu, the pioneering, internationally renowned nuclear physicist, who left China in 1936 to pursue her education in the United States, and, in a lot of ways, resisted looking back. She disproved what was thought to be a fundamental law of nature and raised my dad in Manhattan and taught me how to use chopsticks as a kid."
Read more at
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/12/13/chien-shiung-wu-biography-physics-grandmother
[May be behind a soft paywall. - eds.]
Back to top.3. This female coder wrote the Apollo project by hand
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
"More than 50 years ago, the United States put two men on the moon. Their names are famous to this day. But far lesser known is the woman who helped put them there, Margaret Hamilton.
Hamilton and her team of Software Engineers at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory wrote the sprawling code that made the mission possible." Read more at
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/this-female-coder-wrote-the-apollo-project-by-hand
Back to top.4. Remembering Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt
From: Maria Patterson [maria.t.patterson_at_gmail.com]
"On the evening of December 12, 1921, as 53-year old astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt succumbed to cancer, heavy rains fell from the skies over Cambridge, Massachusetts. After nearly 30 years at the Harvard College Observatory, Leavitt and her stars, hidden by rain clouds, parted ways. Leavitt lived a short but deeply impactful life, during which her achievements failed to receive sufficient recognition. On the centennial of her death, we reflect on her life and legacy."
Read more at
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/remembering-astronomer-henrietta-swan-leavitt
Back to top.5. How to end the hemorrhaging of senior women in STEM
From: Stefi Baum [Stefi.Baum_at_umanitoba.ca]
By Patricia A. Maurice
"Recently, there has been a spate of highly publicized firings and demotions of senior women in STEM. As an emerita in a College of Engineering, I am disheartened but not surprised. While I do not personally know the women involved, details suggest patterns of institutional failure that are all too familiar. Here, I describe problems women face that may 'fly under the radar' and suggest potential solutions based on decades of work in government and academia, including a variety of leadership positions."
Read more at
https://500wsbern.wixsite.com/500wsbern/post/how-to-end-the-hemorrhaging-of-senior-women-in-stem
Back to top.6. Virtual conferences are better for the environment and more inclusive
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
"The COVID-19 pandemic brought work travel and in-person conferences to a halt, but new research finds this shift has made it easier for more people who could not previously attend these events to participate and lowered their environmental footprint.
A research team led by engineers from The University of Texas at Austin analyzed several science conferences that first went virtual during the early months of the pandemic. In a new paper, published [December 9th] in Nature Sustainability, the researchers examined the environmental, social and economic costs of virtual conferences compared with in-person events and analyzed how the shift online altered participation by women, early-career researchers and scientists from underrepresented institutions and countries."
Read more at
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211209201706.htm
and the original journal article at
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-021-00823-2
Back to top.7. Professional development opportunity for women and gender minority graduate students and postdocs
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
In partnership with the Heising-Simons Foundation, APS is pleased to announce Advancing Graduate Leadership (AGL), which aims to provide professional and leadership development training for women and gender minority graduate students and postdocs.
AGL has several events coming up for training and networking:
AGL Conference (Argonne National Laboratory): March 12-13, 2022 AGL Mentor Training Workshop (virtual): February 7-10, 2022, 12:00-2:00 p.m. ET
The AGL Conference will feature professional development training, networking, and a celebration of women’s roles in exploring cutting edge science and in shaping our disciplinary culture.
Apply for the conference (deadline: January 24, 2022) at
The AGL Mentor Training Workshop will help attendees learn how to develop mentorship skills, a key component in advancing the next generation of researchers. This workshop is hosted in collaboration with the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER).
Apply for the workshop (deadline: January 24, 2022) at
Learn more at https://aps.org/careers/agl/index.cfm
Back to top.8. 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
- NEO Surveyor Applied Data Scientist (Staff Scientist), IPAC/Caltech, Pasadena, CA https://phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf03/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=CALTECH&cws=37&rid=6258
- JWST Exoplanet Observation Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory, Washington, DC https://jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/jwst-exoplanet-observation-postdoctoral-fellow
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Back to top.11. Access to Past Issues
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