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Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to include another issue of RFS Briefings with some timely and encouraging updates on women in science.
Please continue to share important news and opportunities with us so that we may share it with you and others who are committed to supporting the careers of exceptional women in science.
Stay safe and sound,
Karla Shepard Rubinger
Executive Director
Rosalind Franklin Society
www.rosalindfranklinsociety.org
Norman P. Salzman Memorial Awards and Symposium in Basic and Clinical Virology.
The Norman P. Salzman Memorial Awards in Basic and Clinical Virology honor the 40-year career of Dr. Norman P. Salzman in virology research and his accomplishments in mentoring young scientists. Congratulations to Nagela Ghabdan Zanluqui, 2024 Post-Doctoral Awardee. She is an immunologist with a fundamental interest in how the central nervous system (CNS) defends itself against viruses. Read more.
Federal Funding Award Will Enhance HIV Prevention for Formerly Incarcerated African American Women.
Becky White, MD MPH, an infectious disease physician and member of the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, has been awarded $677,000 by the National Institutes of Health to adapt a formerly incarcerated transition program called “FIT” to provide HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) upon release in community health centers. Read more.
Dr. Huda Zoghbi Invested as a Member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters.
RFS board member Dr. Huda Zoghbi has been invested as a member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters (the Academy) in recognition of intellectual excellence and courage. She is an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and founding Director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital. Read more. Image via Baylor College of Medicine.
In its tenth year, Female Founders Fund has returned its first fund.
This month, Maven, a women’s and family health startup announced it had raised $125 million funding at a $1.7 billion valuation. It was a crucial moment for Female Founders Fund (FFF), which did a partial secondary sale in conjunction with the new round. Read more.
Dr. Claire Chewapreecha wins Nature Award for Inspiring Women in Science.
The Inspiring Women in Science awards celebrate and support the achievements of women in science, plus all those who work to encourage girls and young women to engage with STEM subjects and stay in STEM careers around the world. Dr. Chewapreecha leads a team at MORU who collect, sequence, and analyze genetic data from a neglected tropical disease which affects 165,000 people each year and is often fatal. Read more.
Two Women Academics Named Recipients of the 2024 Rolf Schock Prize.
Lai-Sang Young, the Henry & Lucy Moses Professor of Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, has received the 2024 Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics. She was recognized for her “long-lasting and deep contribution to the theory of non-uniformly hyperbolic dynamical systems.” Read more. (Image via NYU)
Why a Wealthy University Is Selling 2 of Its Paintings.
Rockefeller University (a member of our Council of Academic Institutions) will auction off two works by Joan Mitchell, an Abstract Expressionist painter. They could sell for $32 million. Read more.
Kristy Pabilonia Recognized for Contributions to Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Medicine.
Kristy Pabilonia, executive director of clinical diagnostics for the Colorado State University Veterinary Health System, has received the 2024 E. P. Pope Award from the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians. Read more.
In Memoriam: Mary Helen Goldsmith, plant biologist, environmentalist, Silliman head.
Mary Helen Goldsmith, a plant physiologist and longtime professor who helped create an undergraduate major in environmental studies at Yale, led the Marsh Botanical Garden for 16 years, died at Whitney Center in Hamden, Connecticut on Oct. 2. She was 91. Read more. Image via Yale University.
River Philip Foundation gives $2.5M to Dalhousie medical research projects.
Dr. Susan Howlett, Dr. Leah Cahill, Dr. Ken Rockwood and Dr. Scott Grandy received one of the two transformational research grants of $1 million to launch their STRONG study to test the effects of protein, blueberries, and strength training on reducing frailty and improving heart health in adults aged 65-85. The second $1-million grant will go to Dr. Tobias Kollmann and Dr. Nima Aghaeepour. They are conducting a proof-of-concept study to test remote home pregnancy monitoring. Read more.
Financing The Next VC-Backed Startup: The Role of Gender.
Is there a gender gap in the serial founding of VC-backed startups? Researchers address this question by introducing a new empirical design that exploits differences in future funding outcomes for men and women who co-founded the same startup. Read more.
Two Women College Presidents Receive Contract Extensions.
Valerie Smith, president of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, has received a contract extension through June 2027. Kathleen Harring, president of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, has received a contract extension through June 2028. Read more. (Image: Valerie Smith, president of Swarthmore College)
2024 Lasker Clinical Research Scholars.
The Lasker Foundation and the National Institutes of Health have joined together in an innovative partnership to nurture the next generation of clinician-researchers. Here are this year’s scholars. Read more.
Coronado Research Limited announces appointment of Professor Jennifer Visser-Rogers as Chief Scientific Officer.
Coronado Research announced that Professor Jennifer Visser-Rogers has been appointed as Chief Scientific Officer. A former Vice President of the Royal Statistical Society, Jennifer is the incoming President of the International Biometrics Society, British and Irish Region, and was named one of the Twenty Women in Data and Tech for 2024 by Women in Data®. Read more.
New Shepard's 28th Mission Includes Emily Calandrelli and Two Returning Customers.
Blue Origin revealed the six people flying on its NS-28 mission.The crew includes two women: Emily Calandrelli and Sharon Hagle. This mission will be the ninth human flight for the New Shepard program and the 28th in its history. To date, the program has flown 43 humans above the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space. Read more. Image via Blue Origin
Mission to Inform: How a NASA Intern Brought Space Science to Life.
As a summer intern at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, Nora Lowe played a role in supporting NASA’s upcoming flagship mission, the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope. Lowe was tasked with assisting in the reporting and publicizing of the telescope’s developmental milestones. Read more.
How to Enter the Chen Institute & Science Prize for AI Accelerated Research.
Through the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute and Science Prize for Al Accelerated Research, the editors of Science and the Chen Institute will recognize innovative young researchers who apply techniques in Artificial Intelligence (Al), such as Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, or Deep Learning, to address basic research questions in the physical or life sciences. Read more
We are pleased to welcome the first members of our new Council of Corporate Leadership!
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Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to include another issue of RFS Briefings with some timely and encouraging updates on women in science.
Please continue to share important news and opportunities with us so that we may share it with you and others who are committed to supporting the careers of exceptional women in science.
Stay safe and sound,
Karla Shepard Rubinger
Executive Director
Rosalind Franklin Society
www.rosalindfranklinsociety.org
In Memoriam: Diane Edmund Griffin, MD, PhD, 1940–2024.
Diane Griffin, MD, PhD, a pioneering infectious-disease virologist, scientific leader, and Johns Hopkins professor, died Monday, Oct. 28. She was 84. At the time of her death, Dr. Griffin was chair emeritus of the W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and vice president of the National Academy of Sciences. Read more. Image via Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The Brain Collector: The Scientist Unraveling the Mysteries of Grey Matter.
Using cutting-edge methods, Alexandra Morton-Hayward is cracking the secrets of ancient brains – even as hers betrays her. At Oxford, where she is a doctoral candidate, she has gathered the world’s largest collection of ancient brains, some as old as 8,000 years. Read more.
The Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen, a Lifesaving Breast Cancer Therapy.
In the early 1960s chemist Dora Richardson synthesized a chemical compound that became one of the most important drugs to treat breast cancer: tamoxifen. Although her name is on the original patent, until recently, her contributions had been largely lost to history. Read more.
F.D.A. Names a New Chief of Medical Devices.
The Food and Drug Administration announced that Dr. Michelle Tarver will be the new director of the medical device division. Dr. Tarver will face a slate of pressing tasks, that include addressing calls to strengthen standards to protect the public from issues like racial bias in artificial intelligence software and hastily authorized and faulty cardiac devices, like external defibrillators. Read more. (Image: Michelle E. Tarver M.D., Ph.D. via FDA)
How Golden Seeds is driving an uptick in women angel investors.
Women angels are now nearly half (47%) of the market, up from just 19% 10 years ago. One of the organizations helping drive that change is Golden Seeds, the largest U.S. angel network that focuses exclusively on women-led companies. Read more.
Gender inequity persists among journal chief editors.
Despite decades of effort to combat gender bias in science, the issue remains pervasive. The issue goes to the very top, as shown by one proxy for leadership in science: journal chief editors. Read more.
ORWH Director Elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has announced that ORWH Director, Janine Austin Clayton, M.D., FARVO, has been elected as a new NAM member. Dr. Clayton was elected for advancing policy, program, and practice innovations to improve the health of all women by catalyzing the integration of sex/gender factors across the biomedical research continuum to galvanize discovery and equity. Read more.(Image via NIH)
How to Close the Gender Health Gap.
A recent report from the McKinsey Health Institute describes the gender health gap as a “$1 trillion opportunity to improve lives and economies,” such is the scale of imbalance against women’s health care worldwide. Read more.
“You Learn More from Failure—When Things Are Not Working Well.”
Biochemist Katalin Karikó won the Nobel Prize for research that laid the groundwork for effective COVID-19 vaccines. She talks about how hard work and focus led to her scientific success and about the joy of solving interesting puzzles. Read more.
ARPA-H Announces Sprint for Women’s Health Awards.
ARPA-H announced the 23 teams to receive awards as part of the Sprint for Women’s Health, committing $110 million to fund solutions for health conditions that uniquely or disproportionately affect women. Read more. Watch Dr. Renee Wegrzyn's RFS presentation here. (Image via ARPA-H)
Nearly 50% of researchers quit science within a decade, huge study reveals.
A study of nearly 400,000 scientists across 38 countries finds that one-third of them quit science within five years of authoring their first paper, and almost half leave within a decade. Read more.
Women stay in science far longer than thought, study of OECD countries suggests.
In the past, studies have observed that women tend to leave science earlier, and in greater numbers, than men do, but a longitudinal study of 375,000 people has concluded the attrition rate may not be as great as once thought. Read more.
VASEM Inducts New Members for 2024.
The Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (VASEM) announce the induction of its newest members for 2024. These distinguished individuals have made significant contributions to their respective fields, ranging from engineering and veterinary medicine to women's health and computer science. With special congratulations to Dr. Susan Kornstein, Editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of Women’s Health! Read more.(Image via VCU Health)
The Untold Story of Marie Curie’s Network of Female Scientists.
In the new book The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024), author (and Scientific American poetry editor) Dava Sobel chronicles Marie Curie’s life and work, and sketches biographies of many of the women who worked with her. Read more.
The ARPA-H Sprint for Women’s Health addresses critical unmet challenges in women’s health.
A Wyss research team led by Girija Goyal has been awarded $3 million from ARPA-H as part of the federal agency’s Sprint for Women’s Health. Wyss startup Gameto was also awarded $10 million as part of the program. The Wyss Institute at Harvard is a member of RFS Council of Academic Institutions. Read more.
Marie Curie: Mentor to Women or Martyr to Science?
In a new biography, Dava Sobel focuses not just on the legendary physicist and chemist, but on the 45 women who worked in her lab. Read more.
We are pleased to welcome the first members of our new Council of Corporate Leadership!
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Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to include another issue of RFS Briefings with some timely and encouraging updates on women in science.
We are proud to be a supporter of BioFuture New York taking place October 28-30th in Manhattan. Use code 2024BFRFS24 to register, and you can write “I am an RFS member” in the additional comments section for an online application to present using the links on this page.
BioFuture is where relentless therapeutic pioneers, innovators, and investors gather to assess and shape the future of healthcare and digital health. Participate in candid, unfiltered discussions. This year’s BioFuture, will explore the exciting mashup between rapidly evolving fields including biopharma, techbio, digital medicine, big data, AI, healthcare systems, payors, and more. The coming decade will dramatically accelerate the transformation of the healthcare ecosystem. Be part of the discussions that will shape and transform the future of healthcare. Register now.
Please continue to share important news and opportunities with us so that we may share it with you and others who are committed to supporting the careers of exceptional women in science.
Stay safe and sound,
Karla Shepard Rubinger
Executive Director
Rosalind Franklin Society
www.rosalindfranklinsociety.org
As men dominate Nobels again, one of their selectors still sees some slow progress toward greater diversity.
To find out more about the Nobel selection process, and how it’s changing, ScienceInsider spoke with Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede the day after the chemistry award. She shares her perspective on how she and others are trying to expand the nomination pool for the famed awards. Read more.
The Computer Scientist Who Builds Big Pictures From Small Details.
Lenka Zdeborová studies how the physics of matter can help model the behavior of machine learning algorithms. Zdeborová leads the Statistical Physics of Computation Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne. Read more.
CVS Ousts C.E.O. as Sluggish Growth Spooks Investors.
Shares of the healthcare conglomerate dropped after the sudden departure of Karen Lynch and a downbeat update on the state of the company’s finances. Read more.
Two IGI Women in Enterprising Science Fellows Receive $1 Million Each in Seed Funding.
Derfogail Delcassian and Yue Clare Lou, Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) Fellows from the second cohort in the HS Chau Women in Enterprising Science (WIES) Program, were each awarded $1 million in non-dilutive seed funding that can exponentially accelerate the commercialization of their discoveries. Read more. Image:Clare Lou (left) and Derfogail Delcassian at the IGI.
What if Marie Curie’s greatest legacy was not her two Nobel prizes?
In The Elements of Marie Curie , historian of science Dava Sobel constructs a fresh portrait of the icon and two-time Nobel laureate. In her well-researched and compellingly written book, Sobel recounts how working with Curie raised the profile of many other pioneering women in radiochemistry and atomic physics. Read more.
12 Pitt Researchers Ranked Among the World’s Best Female Scientists.
Twelve researchers from the University of Pittsburgh are included in Research.com’s 2024 ranking of the “best female scientists in the world,” based on data collected from a wide range of bibliometric sources. Read more.
Computational neurobiologist Na Sun appointed as Whitehead Institute’s first AI Fellow.
Whitehead Institute has appointed Na Sun, a 2024 PhD graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as the inaugural AI Fellow within the Whitehead Fellows Program. Read more. Image Credit: Gretchen Ertl/Whitehead Institute.
The 10th Raw Science Film Festival was Saturday, October 5, 2024, at Triad Theater New York.
The mission of the Raw Science Film Festival is to humanize science and ensure that fact-based experts stay at the forefront of popular culture by celebrating the best science storytelling in the world. Read more.
In Memoriam: University of Calgary mourns the loss of Rebecca Hotchkiss.
Many are feeling deep loss after the passing of Rebecca Hotchkiss, 94, wife of the late Harley Hotchkiss, iconic businessman, philanthropist, and Calgary Flames owner. Together, they founded U Calgary’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI), contributing more than $47 million to research and education at the University of Calgary. Read more.
Mixing joy and resolve, event celebrates women in science and addresses persistent inequalities.
A two-day event at MIT celebrated the successes of women in science but also examined reasons for persistent inequality. At a workshop on the second day, the audience heard from a panel of scientists including (left to right) Michelle Monje, Susan Silbey, Kara McKinley, Erin Schuman, Stacie Weninger, and moderator Elly Nedivi, the William R. and Linda R. Young Professor in The Picower Institute. Read more. Image credit: David Orenstein/Picower Institute.
Nearly 50% of researchers quit science within a decade, huge study reveals.
Nobel prizes are still failing to celebrate the diversity of science. The Nobel committees seem to have an unfortunate habit of overlooking women and Black people when it comes to science – this must change, says Alexandra Thompson. Read more.
Women are better than men at science job interviews.
An investigation into academic hiring outcomes for biological science roles has suggested a surprising trend: women who applied for assistant professor positions in North America were more likely to get job offers than men. Read more.
AWIS Statement on the 2024 Nobel Prizes in the Sciences.
The Association for Women in Science (AWIS) expresses deep disappointment that no women were awarded Nobel Prizes in the sciences this year. This outcome highlights a persistent gender imbalance in the recognition of scientific and academic excellence in physics, chemistry, physiology and medicine, and economic sciences. Read more.
We are pleased to welcome the first members of our new Council of Corporate Leadership!
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Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to include another issue of RFS Briefings with some timely and encouraging updates on women in science.
Please continue to share important news and opportunities with us so that we may share it with you and others who are committed to supporting the careers of exceptional women in science.
Stay safe and sound,
Karla Shepard Rubinger
Executive Director
Rosalind Franklin Society
www.rosalindfranklinsociety.org
Gilda Barabino Awarded the 2024 Carnegie Mellon Dickinson Prize in Science.
Gilda A. Barabino, president of Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Massachusetts, has been awarded the 2024 Dickson Prize in Science from Carnegie Mellon University. The annual award recognizes an individual who has made outstanding progress in the field of natural sciences, engineering, computer science, or mathematics in the United States. Read more. (Image via Olin College of Engineering)
New for 2025! AI in Neuroscience.
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. announced the 2025 launch of AI in Neuroscience, a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed research journal dedicated to exploring the application of artificial intelligence (AI) methods to all areas of neuroscience. Editor-in-Chief Esther L. Yuh, PhD, UCSF, will be attending Neuroscience 2024 in Chicago. Read more.
Biochemical Society 2026 Awards open for nominations.
With award categories for all career stages and a streamlined nomination process, don't miss the chance to nominate a peer or colleague for one of their prestigious accolades by November 1st, 2024. Nominations are welcomed across 14 categories, spanning all career stages from early career researchers to senior scientists, educators, industry partners, support staff and teams. Read more.
DoD Commits $500 Million for Women's Health Research, Supports Better Care for All Women.
The Department of Defense (DoD) is working to ensure that research conducted across the Department addresses health disparities faced by women, including conditions that affect women uniquely, disproportionately, or differently. Read more. A pioneering figure in women’s health at the Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Carolyn M. Mazure has joined the Office of the First Lady to advance women's health research on a national scale. You can access Dr. Mazure’s recent RFS presentation here.(Image via Yale School of Medicine)
Apply for the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to Chemistry June 29 - July 4, 2025.
The Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting brings together about 40 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry and some 600 highly talented undergraduate, master and doctoral students and early-career postdoctoral scientists in the field of Chemistry and closely related disciplines. Read more.
Siebel Scholars Foundation Announces Class of 2025.
Now in its 24th year, the Siebel Scholars program annually recognizes nearly 80 exceptional students from the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, and bioengineering. Read more.
Jill Biden announces $500 million government plan focusing on women’s health at Clinton Global Initiative.
First lady Jill Biden unveiled a new set of actions to address health inequities faced by women in the United States, plans that include spending at least $500 million annually on women’s health research. Read more. (Photo: Dr. Jill Biden via The White House)
Discovery Portal for Women’s Health Research Now Available.
Partnering with the National Library of Medicine, the Office of Research on Women's Health launched a new discovery resource for women’s health research (WHR), called DiscoverWHR. This innovative resource simplifies finding women's health information for patients, caregivers, medical professionals, researchers, and the public. Read more.
Women Entrepreneurs Are Hitting a Funding Wall.
For women starting new businesses, early funding from venture capital firms led by other women is vital. But few are large enough to lead subsequent rounds of financing. Read more.
Yale’s Martha Muñoz receives MacArthur ‘genius’ grant.
Yale evolutionary biologist Martha Muñoz, whose study of the “brakes and motors” of evolution in reptiles, amphibians, and fishes has yielded novel insights into the effects of behavior and biomechanics on how organisms evolve, has been named a 2024 MacArthur fellow. Read more. (Photo courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)
Opinion: It’s time for Princeton to create a major in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
“Knowledge of topics covered in GSS is critical for participation in many parts of public life today. The discipline offers students a unique lens to analyze the world through by understanding gender, a factor that affects nearly every single interaction on an interpersonal and institutional level,” writes Charlie Yale. Read more.
The 2024 Rugart Family Awards.
Congratulations to The Wistar Institute’s Alexandra Indeglia, Ph.D., Brittany Lipchick, Ph.D., and Abigail Rose Trachtman, Ph.D., on receiving the 2024 Rugart Family Awards. The award is presented annually by the Rugart family to support the research of young Wistar scientists in honor of the late Dr. Karl F. Rugart, Jr., an obstetrics and gynecology physician and longtime supporter of Wistar. Read more. (Image via The Wistar Institute)
Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology.
The International Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology is awarded annually to one young scientist who is not older than 35 years for the most outstanding neurobiological research based on methods of molecular, cellular, systems, or organismic biology conducted during the past three years. The most recent prizes (2023, 2022, and 2021) went to women in science. Read more.
The 2024 WINGS Women of Discovery Awards Gala is happening this fall on October 24th at 583 Park Avenue in NYC.
The WINGS Women of Discovery Awards were established in 2003 to recognize extraordinary women making significant contributions to world knowledge and science through exploration. Read more. (Photo by Marcy Swingle, The WINGS Women of Discovery Awards)
The 2024 Global Explorers Forum is taking place on October 26th at the Scandinavia House in NYC.
In tandem with the WINGS Women of Discovery Awards, WINGS hosts a Global Explorers Forum that showcases the work, challenges and expeditions of the most recent cohort of Fellows, who present their research before their peers and the public. Read more.
Apply for the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.
This form is the pre-selection application for attending the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to Chemistry scheduled to be held in Lindau, Germany from June 29 to July 4, 2025. The final selection of applicants will be carried out by the organizers of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. Read more.
We are pleased to welcome the first members of our new Council of Corporate Leadership!
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Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to include another issue of RFS Briefings with some timely and encouraging updates on women in science.
Raw Science Film Festival is moving from California to New York City! The 10th Raw Science Film Festival is set to open on Saturday, October 5, 2024, at the L’ Alliance New York Florence Gould Theater. Rosalind Franklin Society is a sponsoring partner of the festival. The full 3-day event includes film screenings, workshops, panels, live performances including ones by Susaye Greene, and tours. The festival brings together people from across science, technology, entertainment, and media worldwide to showcase best-in-class film and media from around the globe. Read more.
Please continue to share important news and opportunities with us so that we may share it with you and others who are committed to supporting the careers of exceptional women in science.
Stay safe and sound,
Karla Shepard Rubinger
Executive Director
Rosalind Franklin Society
www.rosalindfranklinsociety.org
Obesity-drug pioneers win the prestigious Lasker Award for medical science.
Three scientists involved in developing the blockbuster anti-obesity drugs that are currently changing the healthcare landscape are among the winners of this year’s prestigious Lasker Awards. Joel Habener, Svetlana Mojsov, and Lotte Bjerre Knudsen will share a US$250,000 prize. Read more. Image via Lasker Foundation.
Meet the Winners of the 2024 Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service Award.
Quarraisha Abdool Karim and Salim Abdool Karim have tracked the HIV epidemic in South Africa, identified the disproportionate burden of infection in vulnerable young women in Africa, developed and tested new HIV prevention technologies for women, and assisted international leaders in addressing the global HIV epidemic. Read more.
University of Arizona Global Campus assistant dean recognized with Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award.
Karen Ivy, a professor, and assistant dean with the University of Arizona Global Campus, was honored by the White House with the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to several communities and industries, including aerospace, manufacturing, information technology, and health care. Read more. (Image via The University of Arizona)
The Charles Bronfman Prize is accepting nominations.
The Charles Bronfman Prize is an award of $100,000 presented to a humanitarian under the age of fifty whose innovative work, fueled by their Jewish values, has significantly improved the world. The prize accepts nominations in all areas of humanitarian work across a broad spectrum of disciplines. Read more.
USDA Invests Nearly $121M in Specialty Crops Research and Organic Agriculture Production.
The investment includes $70.4 million to support specialty crop production research across the United States and $50.5 million to support farmers and ranchers who grow and market high-quality organic food, fiber, and organic products. “We know specialty and organic crops add nutrition to our diets and value to sustainable agriculture systems,” said Dr. Chavonda Jacobs-Young, USDA Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics. Read more.
Cleveland Clinic mourns the loss of Dr. Charis Eng.
Dr. Charis Eng was a pioneer in genetic and genomic medicine, and her legacy will remain not only in the programs she founded but also with the generations of trainees she inspired. Born and raised in Singapore, Dr. Eng dedicated her life to medicine and biomedical sciences for the benefit of humankind. Read more. (Image via Cleveland Clinic)
America’s Best and Worst Colleges for Women in STEM.
America is facing a shortage of the scientists and engineers needed in some of our fastest-growing industries. The U.S. semiconductor sector, for instance, will have about 67,000 unfilled jobs by the end of this decade. The simplest way to meet this human resource demand is for more women to major and graduate in STEM fields. Read more.
2025 Winner of the Elaine Redding Brinster Prize in Science or Medicine.
The Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has awarded the 2025 Elaine Redding Brinster Prize to Dr. Mary-Claire King for her pioneering work on a genetic basis for breast cancer. Dr. King proved the existence and precise location of variants of the BRCA1 gene responsible for inherited predisposition to breast and ovarian cancer. Read more. (Photo by Steven Dewall via University of Pennsylvania)
UConn Trustee Creates Breakthrough Women’s Leadership Initiative.
Jeanine Armstrong Gouin has made an undisclosed gift to endow the Jeanine Armstrong Gouin Initiative for Women in Leadership at the UConn College of Engineering. Read more.
Women Sweep The 2024 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists.
The Blavatnik Family Foundation and The New York Academy of Sciences have named three women scientists as Laureates of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. It’s the second consecutive year that all three of the Blavatnik Laureates have been women. Read more.
Heinz Family Foundation Names Leaders of iNaturalist and Women’s Earth Alliance Recipients of the 29th Heinz Awards for the Environment.
Amira Diamond and Melinda Kramer receive the Heinz Award for the Environment for their work founding and leading the Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA), which seeks to protect the environment, end the climate crisis, and ensure a just, thriving world by empowering women-led climate initiatives and eco-enterprises. Read more. (Photo by Joshua Franzos)
Susan Harkema, Ph.D., joins Kessler Foundation as Director of Consortium Growth for Spinal Stimulation.
Dr. Harkema is nationally recognized for her research in the field of spinal cord injury, neural plasticity, and neuromodulation. She held the position of professor in the Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery at the University of Louisville for more than 20 years. Read more.
Polina Anikeeva named head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT.
Polina Anikeeva’s research sits at the intersection of materials chemistry, electronics, and neurobiology. By bridging these disciplines, Anikeeva and her team are deepening our understanding and treatment of complex neurological disorders. Read more. (Photo by Lillie Paquette)
Gender Bias In STEM May Start in Kindergarten, Study Says.
The recent work published in the journal Sex Roles studied children from kindergarten through third grade. The results revealed that the children believed that older girls would struggle more on a challenging STEM exam. Read more.
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