eds: Jeremey Ballin, Nicolle Zellner, Alessandra Aloisi, and Sethanne Howard
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. Be well! --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. AAS Professional Service Opportunity
2. Rocket Girls
3. L'Oreal/UNESCO Awards for 2023
4. How academic institutions can help to close Wikipedia’s gender gap
5. Eight women in astronomy you should know
6. Heising-Simons Founndation grants
7. The VLA Sky Survey in the Multiwavelength Spotlight - VLASS22 Conference
9. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
10. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to 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. AAS Professional Serv ice Opportunity:
By: Timothy M. Lawlor [tml10_at_psu.edu]
AAS Doxsey Travel Prize Committee is seeking two members to serve for a three-year term beginning in the 2022-2023 year. Candidates must be AAS members, have completed their doctorate at least 2 years ago, and be willing to evaluate approximately 100 dissertation talk abstracts in November of each year. We have a small number of virtual meetings to organize and pick Travel Prize award winners. Candidates from traditionally underrepresented groups or in the early stages of their careers are especially encouraged to apply.
Read more at:
https://aas.org/committees/doxsey-travel-prize-committee
Interested individuals should contact Tim Lawlor (tml10_at_psu.edu) or Jennifer Bartlett (jennifer_at_bartlettastro.com)
Back to top.2. Rocket Girls
From: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
"In the 1940s, an elite team of mathematicians and scientists started working on a project that would carry the U.S. into space, then on to the moon and Mars. They would eventually become NASA's Jet Propulsion _at_Laboratory (or JPL), but here's what made them so unusual: Many of the people who charted the course to space exploration were women who worked as 'human computers.'
As Nathalia Holt, who tells their story in her book, 'Rise of the Rocket Girls,' explains: 'In a time before the digital devices that we're used to today, it was humans that were doing the calculations. And so you needed these teams of people — many of whom were women, especially during World War II — and they were responsible for the math.'... She recommends the following books to bring girls to STEM:
"Rise of the Rocket Girls" is highly recommended for adult readers at
https://www.amightygirl.com/rise-of-the-rocket-girls
To introduce kids to more women of NASA, she recommends "Galaxy Girls: 50 Amazing Stories of Women in Space"
for ages 7 to 12 and "Gutsy Girls Go For Science: Astronauts"
https://www.amightygirl.com/galaxy-girls
https://www.amightygirl.com/gutsy-girls-astronauts
To introduce your Mighty Girl to programming, try the Coding Critters for ages 4 to 8
https://www.amightygirl.com/coding-critters-scamper-and-sneaker
and Botley the Coding Robot for ages 5 and up
https://www.amightygirl.com/botley
Back to top.3. L'Oreal/UNESCO awards for 2023
From: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
There are just four days left (May 31) before nominations for these prestigious awards are due. Nominate a woman in astronomy.
Read more at
https://www.forwomeninscience.com/authority/international-awards
Back to top.4. How academic institutions can help to close Wikipedia’s gender gap
From: Jeremy BalLin [jballin_at_ua.edu] and Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
By: Farah Qaiserm, Maryam Zaringhalam, Francesca Bernardi, Jess Wade & Emily Pinckney
"With more than 250 million views each day, Wikipedia is an invaluable educational resource. However, of English-language Wikipedia’s 1.5 million biographies, only around 19% are about women. The gender bias of the online encyclopedia — along with other geographical, racial and societal biases — reflects the biases of its community of editors, as well as systemic inequities in the broader world.”
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01456-x
Updatae the Wikipedia page on women in astronomy. This wikipedia page is a short list of women in astronomy. Please continue to update and add to the list. It does not have many women from the early times.
Read more at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_astronomers
Back to top.5. The VLA Sky Survey in the Multiwavelength Spotlight - VLASS22 Conference
By: Kristina Nyland [kristina.nyland_at_nrl.navy.mil>
ORAL ABSTRACTS DUE ON JUNE 1
The “Very Large Array Sky Survey in the Multiwavelength Spotlight” conference will take place September 7-9, 2022! The hybrid format of this NRAO-sponsored conference will allow participants to choose to attend either in-person in Socorro, NM, or virtually on Zoom. Some of the sessions are specifically dedicated to broadening participation in astronomy.
Read more at
https://web.cvent.com/event/e705a49c-1886-48a4-bbc2-365f5c35e419/summary
Back to top.6. Eight women in astronomy you should know
From: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
The list is from JSTOR an online archive of journal papers. Most universities belong and pay the access fee. The list contains some errors such as Hypatia was not the first women in astronomy.
Raed more at
https://daily.jstor.org/eight-women-astronomers-you-should-know
Back to top.7. Heising-Simons Foundation grants
From: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
By: Helsing-Simons Foundation
These grants span all human endeavors including physics and astronomy.
read more at
https://www.hsfoundation.org/programs/science/women-physics-astronomy
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#howtoincrease
Research Space Scientist in Planetary Studies, Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA), Greenbelt, MD
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/652774100
Back to top.9. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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