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AWIS ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE
AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
http://writing.galaxyzoo.org/
Mars Curiosity Rover
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/
Curiosity Hits New York
Credit: Reuters
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/01/full/
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/cosmology/2014/27/
The rest of the Universe
All the matter and energy
we understand
Composition of the Universe
dark matterdark energy
Description of a Sing0lar Appearance seen in the Sun on September 1, 1859. By R. C. CarAingBon, Esq.
©Royal Astronomical Society w Provided by the NASA Astrophysics Data System
http://www.astro.washington.edu/groups/phat/Home.html
Credit: NASA/Kepler mission/Wendy Stenzel
NASA Kepler
http://kepler.nasa.gov/
Credit: NASA Ames/SETI/J Rowe
Discovery Year
Num
ber o
f New
Pla
nets
Exoplanet DiscoveriesPreviously Discovered
Credit: NASA Ames/SETI/J Rowe
Discovery Year
Num
ber o
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Pla
nets
Exoplanet DiscoveriesPreviously DiscoveredPreviously Discovered by KeplerFeb 26, 2014 Kepler announcement
Credit: NASA
http://kepler.nasa.gov/news/nasakeplernews/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=367
Credit: NASA Ames/SETI Ins/tute/JPL-‐Caltech
Kepler-186fAr#st’s concept
http://www.nasa.gov/ames/kepler/nasas-kepler-discovers-first-earth-size-planet-in-the-habitable-zone-of-another-star/#.VMv4QF7F9o-
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), C. Padilla
ALMA
Na/onal Science Founda/on
http://www.almaobservatory.org/en/about-alma
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
http://www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-room/press-releases/771-revolutionary-alma-image-reveals-planetary-genesis
Cassini
Credit: NASA
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/
Saturn’sMoon
Enceladus
Credit: JPL-‐Caltech/NASA, Space Science Ins/tute
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4231
Credit: NASA
Jupiter’s Moon Europa
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Jup_Europa
X-ray flares seen from Milky Way black hole
Credit: D. Haggard
http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/january/nasa-s-chandra-detects-record-breaking-outburst-from-milky-way-s-black-hole/
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, and the HFF Team (STScI)
HubbleFrontier
Field
Abell 2744
http://www.nasa.gov/content/hubble-frontier-field-abell-2744/
Caolyn Porco Imaging Team Lead, Cassini mission
Catherine Vlahakis Lead Program Scien#st
ALMA Long Baseline Campaign
Elisa Quintana Research Scien#st
SETI Ins#tute and Ames Research Center
Daryl Haggard Assistant Professor Amherst College
Jennifer Lotz Principal Inves#gator Hubble Fron#er Fields
Andrea Ghez Professor, UCLA
AWIS ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE
AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Physical Sciences B
A
Physical Sciences PhD
Engineering BA
Engineering PhD
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2015/nsf15311/
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2015/nsf15311/
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2015/nsf15311/
Why so few women in STEM?
• Research shows “implicit bias” common in STEM
• Stereotype threat affects performance for minority groups
• Not about math• Not about family
http://www.awis.org/?Awards_Recognition
Best practices address:
• Research shows “implicit bias” common in STEM
• Stereotype threat affects performance for minority groups
• Not about math• Not about family
Constan'nople Barcelona
Marseilles Venice
Alexandria
Women “computers” at Harvard College Observatory ~1900
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-women-who-mapped-the-universe-and-still-couldnt-get-any-respect-9287444/?no-ist
Henrietta Leavitt
https://cosmology.carnegiescience.edu/timeline/1912
h*p://www.cfa.harvard.edu/ssp/stars_planets/solarspectrum.html
Cecilia Payne
http://www.amnh.org/education/resources/rfl/web/essaybooks/cosmic/p_payne.html
Credits: NASA
Katherine Johnson
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/a-lifetime-of-stem.html
Credits: NASA
Margaret Hamilton
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/software-woman-heart-lunar-triumph/
h*ps://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/msingh-‐eporYolio/2012/12/13/dark-‐ma*er-‐and-‐the-‐missing-‐mass-‐of-‐the-‐universe/
Vera Rubin
http://www.amnh.org/education/resources/rfl/web/essaybooks/cosmic/p_rubin.html
Jocelyn Bell Annie Jump Cannon
Beatrice Tinsley
Andrea Ghez
Emily Levesque
http://www.emlevesque.com/http://www.sheisanastronomer.org/index.php/history/beatricetinsleyhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/babell.htmlhttp://www.ted.com/talks/andrea_ghez_the_hunt_for_a_supermassive_black_hole?language=enhttp://www.space.com/27983-google-doodle-astronomer-annie-jump-cannon.html
with JWST…James WebbSpace
Telescope
http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/
1992 Conference on Women in AstronomySpace Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, MD
http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=ASThttp://science.nasa.govhttp://science.energy.gov/hep/research/cosmic-frontier/https://aps.colorado.edu/http://astronomy.yale.edu/https://www.as.arizona.edu/http://web.mit.edu/astrophysics/http://www.northropgrumman.com/webbtelescopehttps://www.orbital.com/SatelliteSpaceSystems/ScienceEnvironment/http://www.ballaerospace.com/page.jsp?page=191http://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/c4isr/overview/index.html#sbshttp://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/december/nasa-awards-launch-services-contract-for-transiting-exoplanet-survey-satellite/#.VNT8PlPF_YMhttp://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/what-we-do/space/space-exploration.htmlhttp://noao.edu/https://www.nrao.edu/http://www.stsci.edu/portal/http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
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