Minorities

The National Academies are undertaking a study about how to increase diversity and inclusion in space-mission leadership and are seeking committee members. Nominations (including self-nominations) are due by 17 August.

Andrew Fraknoi has prepared a free list of written and video resources about and by 25 Black astronomers, as well as general materials to examine the history and issues facing Black members of the astronomical community.

The AAS Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy (CSMA) has been sponsoring a compilation of demographic information for all People of Color in the astronomical sciences since 2018. Here's where to find it.

Mary Winston Jackson (1921–2005) successfully overcame the barriers of segregation and gender bias to become a professional aerospace engineer and leader in ensuring equal opportunities for future generations.

The AAS encourages everyone in our community to make a lifelong commitment to action to eradicate anti-Black racism in the astronomical sciences and in academia and research more generally, beginning Wednesday, 10 June.

The leaders of several of the Society's topical Divisions have issued statements in response to the recent murders of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor.

A grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation to the American Institute of Physics will help fund efforts to increase the number of African Americans earning bachelor’s degrees in physics and astronomy.

The Women in Astronomy blog has featured three posts to date of community members sharing their stories and experiences with the two-body problem.

The Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy (CSWA) recently adopted a policy clarifying its recommendations on proposals for projects or activities that it can endorse or support.

We haven't received many responses to our call for AAS members to recommend female astronomers and astronomers of color whose birthdays should be noted on the AAS Wall Calendar. Ideas, anyone?