RFS Briefings - April 2018

April 2018 issue of RFS Briefings has some timely and encouraging updates on women in science, particularly:

RFS Will be a 2019 Sponsor of the Raw Film Festival
RFS is thrilled to be a sponsor of the 2019 Raw Film Festival on January 25-27, 2019 at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. We are planning to have an RFS Board Member as one of the featured speakers. 

Ellen Stofan, Former Chief Scientist at NASA, Named To Head National Air and Space Museum, newsdesk.si.edu, April 5, 2018
Ellen Stofan, currently consulting senior scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, has been named the John and Adrienne Mars Director of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, effective April 30. She is the first woman to hold this position.

Defining the Barriers to Women Publishing in High-Impact Journals, jvi.asm.org, March 15, 2018
Recognizing that publications are a crucial measure of success in science, especially those in top-tier journals, Julie Overbaugh, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, examined gender differences in publication of HIV-related papers based on a sampling of several "high-profile" journals: Science, Journal of Virology, Nature, and Cell.

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