Issue of January 17, 2025
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Sethanne Howard, Hannah Jang-Condell, and Ferah Munshi
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. Meet your CSWA: Rayna Rampalli
2. AAS announces Annie Jump Cannon Award and other 2025 prizes
3. Picture an Astronomer Symposium
4. Great Women of Science: Dr. Hedwig Kohn, Pioneering Physicist in Radiometry and Flame Spectroscopy
5. Who’s quitting academia? Data reveal gender gaps in surprising fields
6. The women physicists who escaped Nazi Germany and made scientific history
7. Federation of American Scientists Introduces Dr. Jedidah Isler as Its Inaugural Chief Science Officer
8. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
9. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
10. Access to Past Issues
An online version of this newsletter will be available at http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/ at 3:00 PM ET every Friday.
Born and raised in California, Rayna Rampalli (she/her) is a fifth-year NSF GRFP fellow in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College. She graduated from Wellesley College with a bachelor's in astrophysics and spent two years doing astronomy research through Columbia University's Bridge to the Ph.D. Program in STEM. With Prof. Elisabeth Newton, she is focused on completing her dissertation research - using stars as tools to understand the evolution of planets and our own Milky Way. Rayna is committed to making astronomy more inclusive and accessible.
Read more at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2025/01/meet-your-cswa-rayna-rampalli.html
This year's Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy, for outstanding research and promise for future research by a female researcher within five years after earning her PhD, goes to Maya Fishbach (University of Toronto) for major contributions to the field of gravitational-wave astrophysics and cosmology, including inference of the black-hole merger rate and its implications for the formation of stellar-mass black holes, their host galaxies, and the expansion history of the universe.
The AAS also announced its other 2025 prizes. Among the recipients were Marcia Rieke (University of Arizona), for the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale University), for the Dannie Heineman Prize, and Susan Clark (Stanford University), for the Helen B. Warner Prize. Divisional prizes were awarded to Holly R. Gilbert (NSF's National Center for Atmospheric Research), for the inaugural Irene González Hernández Prize, and Lisa Upton (Southwest Research Institute) for the Karen Harvey Prize.
Read more at
https://aas.org/press/aas-names-recipients-2025-awards-prizes
The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago are hosting the Picture an Astronomer Symposium (https://pictureanastronomer.github.io/symposium/) from March 4-6, 2025 in Chicago, IL. The meeting has a dual focus on a breadth of astrophysical research and discussions about the retention of women in the field. Retaining talent in the field concerns the whole community, and we actively encourage all astronomers/astrophysicists (and not just women) to attend.
Registration is open through January 30 and can be accessed directly here. There is no registration fee associated with attendance. Instead of contributed presentations, attendees will engage in active, solution-driven discussions that aim to crowd-source best practices and policies that help mend the leaky pipeline.
In addition to the in-person program on the University of Chicago’s campus, the symposium will feature a robust virtual component allowing for full participation in the scientific sessions and group discussions.
Please feel free to share this announcement/advertisement with anyone you think might be interested.
Thank you, Ava (and the rest of the Picture an Astronomer SOC: Hsiao-Wen Chen, Andrey Kravtsov, Zosia Krusberg, Abby Vieregg, and Irina Zhuravleva)
Read more at
https://pictureanastronomer.github.io/symposium/
Using spectroscopy as a method to detect and measure the composition of objects is one of the workhorses of astronomy. A key but almost unknown figure in the physics of spectroscopy is Dr. Hedwig Kohn.
Read more at
By Miryam Naddaf
Female scientists are quitting academic publishing earlier than their male counterparts, even in biological-science disciplines that have roughly equal representation.
A study tracked the scholarly publications of more than 86,000 scientists in 38 countries working in neuroscience, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, immunology, microbiology and agriculture — disciplines known for having high numbers of women. The results show that, 19 years after publishing their first paper, only 26% of female researchers in these fields continue their publishing careers, compared with 36% of men.
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00021-6
Read the preprint at
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.06.627162v2
By Lynn Ware Peek, Katie Mullaly
We enjoy bringing stories to our listeners of women in science whose stories have been lost. We believe it's a way to turn people, and especially young women, on to science.
Olivia Campbell has made a career of doing the same. Campbell, the New York Times bestselling author of "Women in White Coats," returns this winter with another fascinating history of pioneering women who changed the world. It is called "Sisters in Science," and tells the story of four physicists who were forced to flee Nazi Germany during World War II.
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Dr. Jedidah Isler, astrophysicst and Principal Assistant Director of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, has joined the Federation of American Scientists as its first Chief Science Officer.
Read more at
https://fas.org/publication/dr-jedidah-isler/
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