Issue of March 22, 2019
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, JoEllen McBride, and Alessandra Aloisi (guest ed.)
Today's guest editor is Alessandra Aloisi. Alessandra studies stars and gas in nearby star-forming galaxies with UV/optical/NIR imaging and UV/optical spectroscopy to infer their chemical and evolutionary state. She received her PhD from Bologna University (Italy) in 1999. She then landed in the US and launched her career as postdoc at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), and as associate research scientist at Johns Hopkins University. Alessandra joined the research staff at STScI in 2003, working first for the European Space Agency (ESA) and transferring to a position with the Association of the Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) in 2009. At STScI, Alessandra started as instrument scientist for the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph and the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope, and became the lead for the team responsible for the calibration, operations, and user support of these spectrographs just before the Hubble Servicing Mission 4. She then moved to be the Deputy Division Head of the Operations & Engineering Division, and is now the Head of the Science Mission Office where she oversees the science career and infrastructure of STScI as well as HST and JWST science policies.
This week's issues:
2. The Case for Disciplining Faculty Harassers
3. Who invented the dishwasher, windshield wiper, caller ID? Women created these 50 inventions.
4. First person on Mars is likely to be a woman, NASA says
5. This Northern Va. student won the $250,000 prize in a top science competition
6. 7 books about women’s space history for women’s history month
7. The Woman who knows everything about the Universe
8. U.S. Mathematician Becomes First Woman To Win Abel Prize, 'Math's Nobel'
9. High-pressure research and a return to China: meet Haiyan Zheng
10. Study: U.S. gives less early-career research funding to women
11. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
12. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
13. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter
