#SOTUniverse  made  with  h*p://wri/ng.galaxyzoo.org/  

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  

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Exoplanet DiscoveriesPreviously Discovered

Credit:  NASA  Ames/SETI/J  Rowe  

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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

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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

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