Category Archives: Awards and prizes

Women and Wikipedia

Posted on October 3, 2018 by Joan E. Strassmann

Perhaps you have seen that Nobel Laureate in chemistry, Donna Strickland did not have a Wikipedia page until just now. She was deemed by the moderator not to be worthy back in March 2018. See the discussion on the Wikipedia … Continue reading →

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Radical thoughts on awards, or who should get into the National Academy of Sciences

Posted on May 8, 2017 by Joan E. Strassmann

The annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences ended with a President’s Dinner at a museum, and the business meeting, with announcement of new members. There is intense silence as we stare at the three screens of names. The … Continue reading →

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Grant review: best proposal or most needy scientist?

Posted on April 9, 2017 by Joan E. Strassmann

In a few short hours I read nine proposals from graduate students interested in funding for their research. Because this was a focused call, they were largely similar. They all involved field work, natural history, and queries into the relationship … Continue reading →

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Take the nomination pledge!

Posted on April 30, 2016 by Joan E. Strassmann

Anyone who follows the awards given by just about any scientific society will notice the lack of women. I could start listing awards given seldom to women from all our various societies. But instead, I ask something simple. Pledge to … Continue reading →

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Get rid of age requirements for awards, NSF in particular!

Posted on September 12, 2015 by Joan E. Strassmann

Perhaps I missed the most important problem in writing about NSF’s Alan T. Waterman award, just now. I focused on the dearth of women in the last decade. But there is another perhaps more general issue: age bias. The rules … Continue reading →

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Let’s nominate fantastic women for NSF’s Waterman Award!

Posted on September 12, 2015 by Joan E. Strassmann

I just got an email from France Córdova asking for nominations for the Waterman Award. It goes to a US Citizen or permanent resident under 35 and not 7 years past Ph.D. It needs 4 letters of reference. Nominations are … Continue reading →

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