Issue of November 21, 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. Crosspost: Dorothy Tang - Meet the Archives Fellow Enriching the Historical Record of Women in the Physical Sciences
2. 'On a Mission' explores the history of women in space
3. The Faces of Sisters in Science
4. Call for applications to the IAU PhD Prize
5. Call for nominations for the 2026 Gruber Cosmology Prize
6. 2025 NRAO Doctoral Dissertation Award
7. Job Opportunities
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.
By Kimberly S. Mitchell
Dorothy Tang is an Archives Fellow at AIP, focusing on improving the documentation of women in the physical sciences through conducting new oral histories for the Niels Bohr Archives and highlighting interesting narratives within existing collections. The AIP publishes its findings bimonthly on Ex Libris Universum.
Read more at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2025/11/crosspost-dorothy-tang-meet-archives.html
"The first 20 women or so … couldn’t even imagine the reality or the possibility of becoming an astronaut except as they had read about it in science fiction. "
Read more at
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/women-astronauts-space-book-on-mission-valerie-neal/
By Allison Rein
"In Sisters in Science, Campbell traces the lives and careers of Hedwig Kohn, Lise Meitner, Hertha Sponer, and Hildegard Stücklen."
Read more at https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/the-faces-of-sisters-in-science
"The IAU PhD Prize recognises outstanding PhD research achievements around the world. Each of the nine IAU Divisions has, once a year, the opportunity to award a PhD prize to the candidate it feels has carried out the most remarkable work in the Division's subject area during the previous year. Additionally, a separate prize, the PhD prize-at-large, may be awarded jointly by all Divisions to eligible applicants who conducted their PhD research under challenging circumstances."
Read more at
https://www.iau.org/Iau/Science/Grants-and-Prizes/PhD-Prize.aspx
"Nominations for the Cosmology Prize are invited annually from the fields of astronomy, cosmology, mathematics, and the philosophy of science. Individuals that are active in or have an appreciation for contemporary cosmological research and study may submit nominations."
Read more at
https://gruber.yale.edu/cosmology-prize-nomination-criteria
"The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) are pleased to announce the availability of the 2025 NRAO Doctoral Dissertation Award based on new radio astronomy data obtained at any facility operated or jointly operated by a US-based institution. "
Read more at
https://aas.org/posts/news/2025/06/2025-nrao-doctoral-dissertation-award
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
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
- Director, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University
Nominations and expressions of interest in the director of School of Earth and Space Exploration opportunity are encouraged. Please direct them to ASUDirectorSESE@agbsearch.com
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