Women In Astronomy

UN Women Regional Office for the Arab States workshop, item 7. Credit: UN Women AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of April 26, 2024 eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howar...

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By Cindy Barth Ellie Heo | Daily Trojan A new survey of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields finds that despite the fact that nearly 2 in 3 millennial, ...

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Ellen Stofan Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of April 19, 2024 eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell This week's ...

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By Nicolle Zellner On 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 fli...

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Item 2: Annie Maunder AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of April 12, 2024 eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell This week's issues: 1. Care...

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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. Th...

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AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of April 5, 2024 eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell This week's issues: 1. Sexism in academia wastes...

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By Nicolle Zellner In 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, Ursul...

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First Russian cosmonauts who were women AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of March 29, 2024 eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell This week'...

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By Elizabeth Landau, for Smithsonian Magazine Charlotte Moore Sitterly working at her desk at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C. Image Credit: Michael Duncan via the M.D...

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Katherine Johnson, item 2. Credit: Wikimedia Commons AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of March 22, 2024 eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell ...

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Excerpted from IranWire Alenush 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 ...

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Francesca Primas, Full Astronomer at ESO. Item 4, credit: ESO AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of March 15, 2024 eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang...

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By Kristine Palmieri for Physics Today Some of the female employees, graduate students, and volunteer researchers at Yerkes Observatory in the summer of 1916. Names and image credit in the l...

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AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of March 8, 2024 eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell Ruby Payne-Scott (Image Credit: Hall Family)  ...

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By Samia Bouzid, Carol Sutton Lewis & the Lost Women of Science Initiative Ruby Payne-Scott (1912-1981) Image Credit: Hall family collection Australian physicist Ruby Payne-Scott helped lay...

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Women in Astronomy AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of March 1, 2024 eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell This week's issues: 1. Crosspos...

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Astronomy: A Modern History  by Jörg Matthias Determann BRIEF SUMMARY: Since the first half of the twentieth century, an increasing number of astronomers...

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Item 2: Gladys West AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of February 23, 2024 eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell This week's issues: 1. Cel...

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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 (ST...

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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 This week's issues: 1. Cross-post: Meet the sci...

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.] Dr. Joy Buolamwini during 2023 Massachusetts Conference For Women in Boston, on Dec. 14, 2023. (Image Credit: Marla Aufmuth / Getty Images file) By Daniela Pierre-Bravo, for msnbc.com ...

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AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of February 9, 2024 eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell This week's issues: 1. Celebrating Black in STE...

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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 Amer...

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Grace Hopper in 1947 AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of February 2, 2024 eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell This week's issues: 1. Cro...

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