AASWomen Newsletter for June 26, 2020

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of June 26, 2020
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson,
Alessandra Aloisi, and Jeremy Bailin

[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. Be well! --eds.]

This week's issues:

Photo of Mary W. Jackson from Item 2.

1. Nominate our field’s best for the 2021 AAS Prizes and Honors by June 30

2. NASA Names Headquarters After ‘Hidden Figure’ Mary W. Jackson

3. A Celebration of E. Margaret Burbidge

4. Astrobites #BlackInAstroWeek posts

5. Researchers Address the ‘Leaky Pipeline’ to Academic Science

6. She helps Houston Museum of Natural Science achieve liftoff

7. Black Astronomers Highlight Achievements and Obstacles

8. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter

9. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter

10. Access to Past Issues

AASWomen Newsletter for June 19, 2020

Deniz Ikiz Kaya, hired by TUE’s new plan, Item 6.
Image credit: Angeline Swinkels/TUE

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of June 19, 2020
eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, Alessandra Aloisi, and Jeremy Bailin

[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. Be well! --eds.]

This week's issues:

1. Meet Central American-Caribbean Astronomy Bridge Program Fellows - Part 2

2. Nominate candidates for the The American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) Board of Directors

3. APS Webinar on Making Physics Inclusive & Equitable

4. Meet the first all-female Air Force launch weather team who will work SpaceX Starlink launch

5. Moves are afoot in Africa to keep more women in science careers

6. "It's what students look for": the Dutch university that's only hiring women

7. Combating sexual harassment at the NIH

8. Job Opportunities

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

AASWOMEN Newsletter for June 12, 2020

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of June 12, 2020
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson, Alessandra Aloisi, and Jeremy Bailin

[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]

Image credits: https://www.particlesforjustice.org/ and Academics for Black Survival and Wellness

This week's issues:

1. Call to Participate in Strike for Black Lives and Black Survival and Wellness Week

2. Meet Central American-Caribbean Astronomy Bridge Program Fellows - Part 1

3. How Is the Pandemic Affecting AGU Journal Article Submissions?

4. The L’Oréal-Unesco For Women in Science Prize Applications Open

5. A list of postgraduate resources for minority students hits the mark

6. Astronaut Kathy Sullivan is first woman to dive to deepest point on Earth

7. Media stereotypes confound kids' science ambitions

8. Why we can't let women's STEM gains fall victim to COVID-19

9. Scientists condemn racism and take action with #StrikeforBlackLives this week

10. Job Opportunities

11. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter

12. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter

13. Access to Past Issues

AASWomen Newsletter for June 5, 2020

Former astronaut Nicole Stott orbits Earth aboard the International Space Station (Credit: NASA)

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of June 5, 2020
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson, Alessandra Aloisi, and Jeremy Bailin

[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. Be well! --eds.]

This week's issues:

1. Cross-Post: AAS President Calls on All Members to Support Black Americans Now

2. Women Leading Pandemic Research Through Time

3. Physicist Tesla Jeltema wins Mentorship Award from American Physical Society

4. Retired astronauts discuss the future of spaceflight ahead of SpaceX Crew Dragon launch

5. Deep Biases Prevent Diverse Talent from Advancing

6. Trailblazers: Lorena Soriano, STEM Diversity Advocate

7. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

8. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

9. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

Cross-Post: AAS President Calls on All Members to Support Black Americans Now

By Megan Donahue

As AAS President, I wish to comment on the tragic and brutal murders of Black Americans Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor. As scientists, researchers, educators, and human beings we have a responsibility to respond, to see and name these injustices, and to empathize and acknowledge our different human experiences and reactions to these events. We stand together with our Black members, their students, and their families. We stand with our Black AAS employees and volunteers from whom we have asked so much during these difficult and challenging times.

Read more at

https://aas.org/posts/news/2020/06/aas-president-calls-all-members-support-black-americans-now/

AASWomen Newsletter for May 29, 2020

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of May 29, 2020
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson,
Alessandra Aloisi, and Jeremy Bailin

[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. Be well! --eds.]

From Item 2

This week's issues:

1. CSWA Meet & Greet Panel

2. Tweets about #AAS236

3. AAS 236 special session on dual-anonymous peer review

4. Let’s applaud India’s female physicists inspiring girls to take up STEM

5. Coronavirus cutbacks could reverse hard-fought equity gains in STEM workforce

6. Women quotas in politics have unintended consequences

7. Breaking Through The Glass Ceiling - A Spring For Women In Artificial Intelligence

8. These immigrant women are experts in their fields of science. Why aren't they working in them?

9. Picture a Scientist brings the struggles of women in science to screen

10. Women of science posters for you to colour, marshmallow LINACs, iridescent chocolate

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

CSWA Meet & Greet Panel

AAS 236: CSWA Virtual Meet and Greet

Tuesday, June 2, 6:40 pm ET

The Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy (CSWA) is hosting a panel during the AAS Virtual Meeting centered around discussions related to career challenges in our academic and research fields. Members of the diversity committees* will be present to address issues common to all of us, so please fill out the survey to indicate the topics of most interest to you.

Panelists include: Rolf Danner, SGMA; Nicole Cabrera Salazar, CSMA; Jackie Monkiewicz, WGAD; and Stella Kafka, CSWA (Moderator).

Date: Tuesday, June 2 

Time: 6:40 pm ET

Survey Link

* AAS diversity committees include the CSWA, CSMA (Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy), SGMA (Committee for Sexual-Orientation & Gender Minorities in Astronomy), and WGAD (Working Group on Accessibility and Disability).