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AASWomen Newsletter for January 26, 2024
AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of January 26, 2024eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and...
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Crosspost: How networking can bolster diversity in physics
By Claire Malone for Physics WorldImage credit: Shutterstock/melitasPhysicists who want to solve the world’s great challenges don’t just need deep technical expertise, but also excellent networking...
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AASWomen Newsletter for February 2, 2024
Grace Hopper in 1947AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of February 2, 2024 eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell[We hope you all are taking care of...
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Celebrating Black in STEM - Part 1
NASA Pioneers and Innovators (Image Credit: NASA)Since 1976, every American president has officially designated February as Black History Month, a celebration of achievements by African Americans and a...
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AASWomen Newsletter for February 9, 2024
AAS Committee on the Status of WomenIssue of February 9, 2024eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other....
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Cross-post: Meet the scientist protecting women of color from the wrong side...
[Eds. note: February 11 was the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.]Dr. Joy Buolamwini during 2023 Massachusetts Conference For Women in Boston, on Dec. 14, 2023. (Image Credit: Marla...
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AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of February 16, 2024 eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each...
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Celebrating Black in STEM - Part 2
In honor of Black History Month, Science Buddies has highlighted 38 African American scientists and engineers who made important contributions to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). For...
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AASWomen Newsletter for February 23, 2024
Item 2: Gladys WestAAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of February 23, 2024 eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell[We hope you all are taking care of...
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DEIA Activism in Astronomy
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Astronomy: A Modern History by Jörg Matthias DetermannBrief Summary: Since the first half of the twentieth century, an increasing number of astronomers have pursued...
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AASWomen Newsletter for March 01, 2024
Women in AstronomyAAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of March 1, 2024 eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves...
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Cross-post: The Forgotten Star of Radio Astronomy
By Samia Bouzid, Carol Sutton Lewis & the Lost Women of Science InitiativeRuby Payne-Scott (1912-1981)Image Credit: Hall family collectionAustralian physicist Ruby Payne-Scott helped lay the...
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AASWomen Newsletter for March 8, 2024
AAS Committee on the Status of WomenIssue of March 8, 2024eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell[In celebration of International Women's Day, we thank the women...
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Cross-post: They were astronomers
By Katie Palmieri for Physics TodaySome of the female employees, graduate students, and volunteer researchers at Yerkes Observatory in the summer of 1916. Names and image credit in the link below.In...
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AASWomen Newsletter for March 15, 2024
Francesca Primas, Full Astronomer at ESO.Item 4, credit: ESOAAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of March 15, 2024 eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell[We...
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Alenush Terian: The “Mother of Modern Iranian Astronomy”
Excerpted from IranWireAlenush Terian at Sorbonne University (Credit: IranWire)She is called the “Mother of Modern Iranian Astronomy” and for good reason: she was a cofounder of the first solar...
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AASWomen Newsletter for March 22, 2024
Katherine Johnson, item 2.Credit: Wikimedia CommonsAAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of March 22, 2024 eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell[We hope you...
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Crosspost: How Charlotte Moore Sitterly Wrote The Encyclopedia of Starlight
By Elizabeth Landau, for Smithsonian MagazineCharlotte Moore Sitterly working at her desk at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C. Image Credit: Michael Duncan via the M.D. Moore...
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AASWomen Newsletter for March 29, 2024
First Russian cosmonauts who were womenAAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of March 29, 2024 eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell[We hope you all are...
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Sexism in academia wastes public funding and is bad for science
By Nicolle ZellnerIn their article for Nature Reviews Materials, Sexism in academia is bad for science and a waste of public funding, Nicole Boivin, Susanne Täuber, Ulrike Beisiegel, Ursula Keller, and...
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AASWomen Newsletter for April 5, 2024
AAS Committee on the Status of WomenIssue of April 5, 2024eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other....
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Career Profile: Jörg Matthias Determann Records Modern Science History
The AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy has compiled dozens of interviews highlighting the diversity of career trajectories available to astronomers, planetary scientists, etc. The...
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AASWomen Newsletter for April 12, 2024
Item 2: Annie MaunderAAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of April 12, 2024 eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell[We hope you all are taking care of...
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Women at NASA Support Human Spaceflight
By Nicolle ZellnerOn April 12, the United Nations celebrated the International Day of Human Spaceflight in honor of Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet citizen. who conducted the first human space flight. This...
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AASWomen Newsletter for April 19, 2024
Ellen Stofan Credit: NASA/Joel KowskyAAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of April 19, 2024 eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell[We hope you all are...
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