RFS Briefings - October 2017

October 2017 issue of RFS Briefings has some timely and encouraging updates on women in science, particularly:

Announcing 2017 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists Winners, blavatnikawards.org, October 12, 2017
The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences announced the three Winners and six Finalists of the 2017 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists. All winners and finalists were men.

Isabella L. Karle Dies at 95; Findings on Molecules Helped Husband Win Nobel, October 26, 2017
Isabella L. Karle, whose experiments elucidating the shapes of molecules contributed crucially to her husband's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, died on October 3 at the age of 95. She was an expert in bouncing X-rays off crystals to deduce the structure of molecules by observing patterns in the deflected rays.

MacArthur Foundation Names 2017 'Genius' Grant Winners, nytimes.com, October 11, 2017
The MacArthur Foundation fellowships were announced and two women in science were named recipients: Regina Barzilay, a computer scientist who developed machine learning methods that enable computers to process and analyze large amounts of data, and Betsy Levy Paluck, a psychologist who examines how social networks and norms influence our interactions with one another.

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