Issue of September 23, 2022
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Alessandra Aloisi, and Sethanne Howard
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. Crosspost: The trailblazing career of Willie Hobbs Moore
2. Interview with Virginia Trimble: ‘There were 14 women on the Caltech campus when I arrived in 1964’
3. NSF Supplemental Funding for Space-Related Preparation and Awareness for Career Equity (SPACE)
4. Student evaluations show bias against female professors
5. Martha Gilmore Wins Claudia J. Alexander Award
6. DART will impact on Sept. 26 2022
7. Meet the women behind NASA's return to the Moon
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. Crosspost: The trailblazing career of Willie Hobbs Moore
From: Bryne Hadnot via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
"There was a time when i believed that Shirley Anne Jackson, who received her PhD in Physics from MIT in 1973, was theh first African American woman to attain that degree. I realized that view was incorrect around 1984, when i learned that Willie Hobbs Moore (1934-94) finished her PhD in physics at the University of Michigan in 1972. At that time, for more than a decade I had been collecting data on African Americans with advanced degrees in physics - and had even published a list of Black physicists. Needless to say, learning about Moore came as a welcome surprise for me."
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2022/09/crosspost-trailblazing-career-of-willie.html
Back to top.2. Interview with Virginia Trimble: ‘There were 14 women on the Caltech campus when I arrived in 1964’
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu] and Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
By Zoë Corbyn
"Virginia Trimble, 78, is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine, whose astronomy career spans more than 50 years. She has studied the structure and evolution of stars, galaxies and the universe and published more than 1,000 works, including research papers in astronomy, astrophysics, the history of science and scientometrics – the field concerned with measuring scientific outputs – as well book reviews and biographies. She has co-edited The Sky Is for Everyone, a new collection of 37 autobiographical essays by distinguished female astronomers, including herself. Spanning a range of generations and nationalities, each tells of the barriers they have overcome to change the face of modern astronomy.”
Read more at:
Back to top.3. NSF Supplemental Funding for Space-Related Preparation and Awareness for Career Equity (SPACE)
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By National Science Foundation
"Space-related programs, projects and activities are of great importance to the economy, national security, and to understanding the Earth and Universe. NSF is poised to support the United States Space Priorities Framework by providing supplemental funding to active NSF awardees with projects at the intersection of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and space ecosystems, that aim to improve diversity in the space workforce.”
Read more at
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22123/nsf22123.jsp
Back to top.4. Student evaluations show bias against female professors
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By Georgia Institute of Technology
"While various reasons have been suggested as to why women still trail men in academic position and prestige despite increasing levels of educational attainment, one factor may play a surprisingly big role: teaching evaluations.
In a recent study, Whitney Buser, senior academic professional and associate director of Academic Programs in the School of Economics at Georgia Tech, explores the nature and causes of gender bias in student evaluations of teaching (SETs). By drawing on social role theory to inform their hypotheses, Buser and her co-authors investigated whether bias exists at the outset of the semester and whether backlash after grading exacerbates it. Their study, "Evaluation of Women in Economics: Evidence of Gender Bias Following Behavioral Role Violations," has been published in the journal Sex Roles."
Read more at
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-student-bias-female-professors.html
Read the full study at
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-022-01299-w
Back to top.5. Martha Gilmore Wins Claudia J. Alexander Award
From: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
Martha “Marty” Gilmore, the George I. Seney Professor of Geology and professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, has been awarded the 2022 Claudia J. Alexander Prize from the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) for her study of Venus’ geology.
Gilmore is a Science Team Member on the DAVINCI and VERITAS missions to Venus, and the principal investigator of a Venus Flagship Mission Concept Study for the Planetary Decadal Survey. Gilmore’s work has “helped usher in a new decade of exploration of Venus with the selection of two new NASA Venus missions,” according to the AAS.
Read more at
https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2022/09/16/martha-gilmore-wins-claudia-j-alexander-award
Back to top.6. Dart will impact on Sept. 28 2022
From: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
DART [Double Asteroid Redirection Test] will impact the astroid moonlet Dimorphos (Greek for “two forms”), which orbits a larger asteroid named Didymos (Greek for “twin”). Can the DART impact change the orbit of the system?
The Program Executive is Andrea Riley at NASA Headquarters.
Read more at
Back to top.7. Meet the women behind NASA's return to the Moon
From: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
By CBS Today Show on 02/02/2022
"NASA’s effort to bring Americans back to the moon is underway as they create a powerful new rocket for a history-making team that would include the first woman and first person of color. The Artemis Program aims to build a place to live and work on the moon where they can learn more about the moon and how to live on another surface outside of Earth."
See video at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1VsOnNIZkM
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
- Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Astronomy & Astrophysics at San Francisco State University
https://physics.sfsu.edu/astro_job_2023
- Astronomy Assistant Professor (Temporary Contract- Sabbatical Replacement), Diablo Valley College, CA
https://www.4cdcareers.net/postings/8884
-Postdoctoral researchpositions in Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
-Future Faculty in the Physical Sciences Fellowship, Princeton University
https://web.astro.princeton.edu/jobs
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