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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. First, I want to call your attention to the call for Nominations just released!The Genome Writers Guild (GWG) and the Rosalind Franklin Society have joined forces again to recognize amazing scientists by awarding the Rosalind Franklin Medal. This award marries together GWG’s core objectives of facilitating genome writing conversation, collaboration, and exposure with the Rosalind Franklin Society’s goals of enabling more women to achieve higher recognition, visibility, appointments and success in industry, academia, or government. The recipient of this award will embody the missions of both organizations. The researcher should be in an early stage of their career, including graduate students, post-docs and assistant professors. Nominees from all walks of genomics and nucleic acid research, including academia, industry, and government are welcome. Criteria used to identify the winner will include: scientific Impact; contribution to the fields of genome editing or nucleic acid research; contributions to equity, diversity, and inclusion; community outreach; and overall strength of support letter(s). To nominate (or self-nominate): Questions: 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
How RFS board member Nancy Hopkins and her tape measure revealed the extent of sexism in science. Emmy Murphy Is a Mathematician Who Finds Beauty in Flexibility. The daughter of a nurse and an industrial valve salesperson, Emmy Murphy was the first in her family to go to college. And she seriously weighed leaving academia after deciding, midway through graduate school, to come out as transgender. Quanta spoke with Murphy about geometric spaces and the spaces inhabited by mathematicians. Read more. Image: Caroline Gutman for Quanta Magazine. Who was Justine Siegemund? Why a Google Doodle celebrates the groundbreaking midwife. Justine Siegemund was a midwife who dared to challenge patriarchal attitudes in the 17th century. She was the first person in Germany to write a book on obstetrics from a woman’s perspective. In 1690, the European University Viadrina Frankfurt certified her book, The Court Midwife, as an official medical textbook. During a time when few women had access to formal education, Siegemund became the first woman to publish a seminal medical text in German. Read more. The Forgotten Women Aquanauts of the 1970s. The Women Working to Advance COVID-19 Research. Bulgari has broadened its reach with their Women & Science Fellowship in COVID-19 Research. The program, set at New York’s The Rockefeller University, fosters the next generation of women in science by providing funding toward their research as they develop new therapies to combat COVID-19. From left to right: Marina Caskey, a Brazilian infectious diseases physician and scientist, leads the Bulgari-funded lab; Inna Ricardo-Lax, a virologist from Israel, is a research associate working to better understand the interaction between viruses, including COVID, cells; and Sandra Nakandakari, a graduate fellow originally from Peru, focuses on the activity of B cells, which are the immune system cells responsible for making antibodies. Read more. Event provides forum for researchers to learn more about ARPA-H’s Open Broad Agency Announcement. Submissions open for the ARPA-H Dash. Gold Humanism Scholars at the Harvard Macy Institute Program for Educators. Register now for GWG 2023: From Basic Biology to Commercial Technology, July 19-21, 2023. The Genome Writers Guild (GWG) and Rosalind Franklin Society have joined forces again to recognize amazing scientists by awarding the Rosalind Franklin Medal. Read more. Season 5 of The Lost Women of Science podcast is live! The first episode of "The Doctor and the Fix" is now available wherever you get your podcasts. In 1946, Marie Nyswander, a recent medical school graduate, joined the U.S. Public Health Service looking for adventure abroad. Instead, they sent her to Lexington, Kentucky’s Narcotic Farm, a prison and rehabilitation facility for people with drug addiction, where therapies included milking cows and basket-making. It was at Lexington that Marie encountered addiction for the first time, and what she saw there disturbed her—and reset her life’s course. Read more. Innovative Genomics Institute’s HS Chau Women in Enterprising Science Program. Maggie Aderin-Pocock: Nasa scientist inspired by appointment. Dr Aderin-Pocock, who presents The Sky at Night, took on the role at the University of Leicester. Naomi Rowe-Gurney, 32, a former student at the university, said she had been inspired by Dr Aderin-Pocock's career. "I couldn't believe a black woman was on TV talking about space science," she said. Read more. (Image: University of Leicester) Obituary: Beryl Rica Benacerraf. "Copyright © 2023 Courtesy of Peter Libby", Beryl Rica Benacerraf was a renowned radiologist and pioneer of ultrasound in antenatal diagnosis. She was born in New York, NY, USA, on April 29, 1949 and died of cancer in Cambridge, MA, USA, on Oct 1, 2022 aged 73 years. Read more. More female researchers than ever migrate internationally. Subscribe to our newsletter (RFS Briefings) at https://womeninscience.substack.com/ Written by Marianna Limas, Social Media Manager |
