Issue of May 23, 2025
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Sethanne Howard, Ferah Munshi, Stella Kafka, and Ben Keller
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. Space at Stake: Texas Astronomers Take Stand Against Government Cuts
2. The Impact of Blue Origin’s All-Woman Flight
3. The stellar history of female “human computers”
4. Nuns Helped Map Close To Half A Million Stars In The Early 20th Century After The Vatican Recruited Them
5. The unsung women of quantum physics get their due
6. Women Constitute Only 35% STEM Graduates Globally: UNESCO
7. Women in HPC Announces WHPC Travel Fellows for ISC 2025
8. Advanced Air Vehicles Program (AAVP) Fellowship Opportunities
9. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
10. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
11. Access to Past Issues
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Astronomers across Texas are raising alarm over proposed government budget cuts that could cripple the state’s leadership in space science.
Read more at
https://aas.org/posts/news/2025/05/space-stake-texas-astronomers-take-stand-against-government-cuts
On April 14, 2025, Blue Origin launched its first all-female crewed space flight. The flight took eleven minutes to launch, cross the Kármán line, and land. It took even less time for the responses, mostly critical, to roll in.
Read more at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-impact-of-blue-origins-all-woman.html
Veiled beneath the Astrographic Catalogue’s canopy of stars was a corps of female “computers”, who measured and recorded the stars’ positions – and much more besides.
Read more at
https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astronomy/the-stellar-history-of-female-human-computers/
The Vatican recruited four nuns, Sisters Emilia Ponzoni, Regina Colombo, Concetta Finardi, and Luigia Panceri, to measure and map stars from plate-glass photographs. For 11 years, they diligently cataloged the brightness and locations of 481,215 stars.
Read more at
A new book celebrates the women in a field once called Knabenphysik, or “boys’ physics”.
Read more at
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/the-unsung-women-of-quantum-physics
Women make up only 35% of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics graduates globally, with no significant progress made in the last decade, according to UNESCO's Global Education Monitoring team, which has flagged low confidence in mathematics and negative gender stereotypes as major reasons behind the trend.
Read more at
https://www.ndtvprofit.com/technology/women-constitute-35-stem-graduates-globally-unesco
Women in HPC has named Sarah Johnston and Khyati Sethia as winners of the 2025 WHPC Travel Fellowships.
Read more at
https://insidehpc.com/2025/05/women-in-hpc-announces-whpc-travel-fellows-for-isc-2025/
The AAVP Funding opportunity solicits proposals from accredited U.S. institutions for research training grants to begin the academic year. This NOFO is designed to support independently conceived research projects by highly qualified graduate students in disciplines needed to advance NASA's mission, thereby affording these students the opportunity to contribute to advancements in STEM-related areas of study directly.
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