This message was sent to ##Email## To advertise in this publication please click here Your weekly round-up of must-read news on women in science April 12, 2022 .AWIS UPDATES Changing the climate for women in climate science AWIS Eunice Newton Foote, an American amateur scientist, was the first to report a correlation between CO2 and increased air temperature in 1856. However, an Irish professional scientist, Dr. John Tyndall, stole the spotlight with his findings on the greenhouse gas effect five years later in 1861. Women are still underrepresented and overlooked, but Earth Month (April) is an opportunity to raise their visibility. READ MORE AWIS remembers 2 acclaimed women scientists AWIS Two influential community members passed recently, Helen Conrad Davies and Mildred Dresselhaus. Dr. Davies was a microbiology professor at the University of Pennsylvania and spent seven decades writing, researching, and teaching. She loved music and often made-up songs about infectious diseases to help her students learn. Dr. Dresselhaus, a physicist known as the “Queen of Carbon Science," earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Science during her career. READ MORE .HOT HEADLINES Time to rethink the scientific CV Nature Researchers need to find fresh ways to document their accomplishments and value beyond a mere listing of publications, and committees overseeing promotions and grants need to change their protocols and expectations, says Needhi Bhalla, a cell biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “CVs should reflect the authentic experience of being a scientist,” she says, including mentorship, work on committees, outreach and many other contributions that don’t result in publications. READ MORE Senate approves Kathi Vidal for Patent and Trademark Office Bloomberg Law Kathi Vidal, President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, was confirmed by the Senate by voice vote on Tuesday. Vidal is the second woman to hold the dual roles of under secretary of Commerce for intellectual property and USPTO director. Vidal will have the opportunity to move forward policy to increase the number of women and minority patent attorneys in patent tribunal appearances, and oversee the PTO’s ongoing efforts to increase gender and racial diversity in inventorship. READ MORE Gender-neutral words like 'people' and 'person' are perceived as male, study suggests Smithsonian Magazine The words "people" and "person" are, in theory, gender neutral, used to refer to an individual or group without implying maleness or femaleness. But new research suggests that the perceived meaning of these labels is biased toward men—in other words, writes Richard A. Lovett for Cosmos magazine, "whatever terms people may use in describing the average human, they are often mentally defaulting to 'male.'" READ MORE  SPONSORED VIDEO DATA SCIENCE IN MIAMI The University of Miami’s Master of Science in Data Science provides interdisciplinary connections and experiential learning opportunities across all aspects of data science: from machine learning to marketing, from city planning to climatology. Consider advancing your career with a cutting-edge degree located in one of the world’s fastest-growing tech hubs. WATCH VIDEO Black Americans' views of and engagement with science Pew Research Center Science offers the promise to aid society in tackling its most pressing problems, lifting living standards, health and life expectancies. Learning about science can enrich people’s lives in and outside of the classroom, and advances in scientific developments can spark amazement while transforming the ways we live and work. A new Pew Research Center survey takes a wide-ranging look at Black Americans’ views and experiences with science, spanning medical and health care settings, educational settings, and as consumers of science-related news and information in daily life. READ MORE Michelle Obama: Jackson confirmation gives Black girls and women 'a new dream to dream' The Hill Former First Lady Michelle Obama praised the historic confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the Supreme Court’s first Black female justice, thanking Jackson for giving Black girls and women "a new dream to dream," saying "Like so many of you, I can't help but feel a sense of pride — a sense of joy — to know that this deserving, accomplished Black woman will help chart our nation’s course," she wrote. “So many women of color now have a new role model to look up to as she serves on the highest court of the land." READ MORE  SPONSORED CONTENT Promoted by Boston University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 3 inspiring stories from women in STEM at Boston University. Malika Jeffries-EL, Professor of Chemistry and GRS Associate Dean shares her candid first-gen story. BU’s ARROWS– advance, recruit, retain, and organize women in STEM. Find your community here! Leave a mark on the world with an MS degree from BU’s Earth & Environment Department. BU’s Biostatistics program will prepare you for a career on the forefront of public health. .WOMEN in SCIENCE Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 2: Women Needed Scientific American The first modern-style code ever executed on a computer was written in the 1940s by a woman named Klára Dán von Neumann — or Klári to her family and friends. And the historic program she wrote was used to develop thermonuclear weapons. In this season, we peer into a fascinating moment in the postwar U.S. through the prism of Dán von Neumann’s work. We explore the evolution of early computers, the vital role women played in early programming, and the inextricable connection between computing and war. READ MORE 10 women scientists leading the fight against the climate crisis GlobalCitizen Climate change is an issue that affects everyone on the planet but women and girls are the ones suffering its effects the most. Why? Because women and girls have less access to quality education and later, job opportunities. These structural disadvantages keep them in poverty. In fact, women make up 70% of the world’s poor. In a nutshell, climate change impacts the poor the most and the poor are mostly women. READ MORE  PRODUCT SHOWCASE Changing the Culture of Chemistry: Improving Work-Life Balance It takes special effort for researchers to maintain a healthy equilibrium between their work and personal lives. This challenge can look very different, depending on where one works and what stage of career they are in. ACS Publications hosted a webinar on work-life balance in the lab, as part of the Changing the Culture of Chemistry series. Watch on demand Women are creating a new culture for astronomy Scientific American Ann Finkbeiner writes: Some years ago I made up a list of things I was tired of reading in profiles of women scientists: How she was the first woman to be hired, say, or to lead a group, or to win some important prize. I had just been assigned a profile of a splendid woman astronomer, and her "firsts" said nothing about the woman and everything about the culture of astronomy: A hierarchy in which the highest ranks have historically included only scientists who are male, white and protective of their prerogatives. READ MORE Margaret Melhase Fuchs and the radioactive isotope Chemistry World The person who discovered the radioactive isotope caesium-137 — which is today one of the most widely used radionuclides in the world — was Margaret Melhase. What’s more, she did it as an undergraduate chemistry student at the University of California, Berkeley, in the US. Her remarkable finding in 1941 came about because Melhase managed to convince Glenn Seaborg, a rising star in nuclear chemistry, to set her up with a research project and lab space on the top floor of the university’s old chemistry building. READ MORE .WOMEN and MEDICINE We need better diagnostic tests for autism in women Scientific American Zhara Astra writes: "You don't look autistic." This is what people say when I first tell them I’m on the spectrum. But I do look autistic. The problem is that people, especially medical professionals, don’t know what to look for when it comes to identifying and diagnosing autism in women and girls. Diagnostic criteria are developed using white boys and men, failing to serve many neurodivergent girls and women. READ MORE Diversity in US medicine is not keeping pace with population changes, analysis finds Massachusetts General Hospital The United States is becoming more racially and ethnically diverse every day, but those changes are not reflected in the makeup of clinical faculty and leadership of medical schools in this country, according to a special report in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) led by Sophia Kamran, MD, a radiation oncologist at Mass General Cancer Center. READ MORE  SPONSORED CONTENT Promoted by Los Alamos National Laboratory Learn more about opportunities at Los Alamos National Laboratory From ground to space, chief scientist Tess Light’s leadership far-reaching Los Alamos space scientist, Vania Jordanova, named American Geophysical Union Fellow Looking for an alternative bioscience career path? Consider a national laboratory New name change service makes it easier for researchers to claim their earlier work Gynecologic oncologist shares career path, tips for becoming involved in clinical trials Healio B.J. Rimel, MD, recently named medical director of the Cedars-Sinai Cancer Clinical Trials Office, shared her personal journey to gynecologic oncology and the important role allies can play when facing discrimination. In her new position, Rimel works as a liaison between principal investigators, research staff and leadership. She also monitors ongoing trials to ensure quality and make sure the needs of staff are being met. READ MORE .WOMEN and ACADEMIA How 20th-century female African American deans changed the higher ed landscape Diverse Issues in Higher Education At the start of the 1922-1923 academic year, 39-year-old Lucy Diggs Slowe (1883-1937) returned to her alma mater, Howard University, to become its inaugural, full-time occupant of a new administrative role in higher education — the dean of women. The first African American woman trained in what is now student affairs, Slowe was a pioneer many times over — a co-founder and first president of the first Black sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha; the first Black woman to win a national sports title (in singles tennis); and the principal of the first junior high school for African American students in Washington, DC. READ MORE Marion B. Sewer Distinguished Scholarship for Undergraduates ASBMB The Marion B. Sewer Distinguished Scholarship for Undergraduates offers financial support to students who demonstrate an interest in the fields of biochemistry and molecular biology and enhance the diversity of science. Students whose social, educational or economic background adds to the diversity of the biomedical workforce or who show commitment to enhancing academic success of underrepresented students are eligible. READ MORE The pivotal role of the graduate program in student mentoring Inside Higher Education In graduate education, the faculty mentor plays the primary role in guiding a graduate student from recruitment through graduation—and often on to job placements—for several formative and demanding years. Faculty mentors also play an increasing role in responding to the mental health needs of graduate students, who face the stressors of the pandemic, ongoing racial injustice, climate change and political unrest. 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Just over half of respondents expect things to get better for women at their organizations in the next year. Younger women were more likely than those aged 45 or older to be optimistic about the changes on the horizon and to think that conditions for women had improved over the previous year. READ MORE 6 women who are changing the face — and future — of crypto TIME Cryptocurrency has a problem: there are too many men. Twice as many men as women invest in cryptocurrency: Roughly 19% of women ages 18 to 29 say they have invested in, traded or used a cryptocurrency, compared with 43% of men in the same age range, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. But this isn’t only where women are lagging behind men: there are also not as many women working in the blockchain and crypto industries. 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