Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to include another issue of RFS Briefings with some timely and encouraging updates on women in science. The 2nd Annual Rosalind Franklin Society (RFS) Awards in Science, recognizing outstanding peer-reviewed research by women and underrepresented minorities in STEM, have been released.The anthology of award winners is available digitally on the Rosalind Franklin Society website as well as in print. 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
Executive Director Rosalind Franklin Society www.rosalindfranklinsociety.org NIH selects Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D., acting director for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has named Jeanne M. Marrazzo, M.D., as director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Dr. Marrazzo is currently the director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is expected to begin her role as NIAID Director in the Fall. Photo: New NIAID Director Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo (Credit: NIAID) Read more. Michelson Philanthropies & Science Prize for Immunology. The women behind the Manhattan Project that Nolan's new film 'Oppenheimer' completely ignored. The Arnold P. Gold Foundation names Kathleen Reeves, MD, third President & CEO.
Kathleen Reeves, MD, FAAP, a leader in urban bioethics, pediatrician, exemplar in humanism, and medical educator at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, will become the next President & CEO of The Arnold P. Gold Foundation. Her appointment concludes a national search that began after Richard I. Levin, MD, announced that he was retiring after a 12-year tenure leading the nonprofit organization. Photo: Kathleen Reeves, MD (Credit: Temple University) Read more. Move Over, Men: Women Were Hunters, Too. Decoding the Universe at the New Center for Data-Driven Discovery. The Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) at the University of Tokyo has launched the Center for Data-Driven Discovery (CD3). Jia Liu, the inaugural director of CD3 and a Project Associate Professor at Kavli IPMU, says "Our mission is to 'decode the universe'––using software algorithms to understand the fundamental physical laws of the universe." Image: Center for Data-Driven Discovery (CD3) Director Jia Liu (Credit: Kavli IPMU). Read more. In Memoriam: Evelyn Boyd Granville, 1924-2023. Tina Eliassi-Rad Honored by the CRT Foundation for Her Research on Artificial Intelligence. Bias in science: how to fight the good fight. Nominations for the 2024 Alan T Waterman Award will be accepted from July 17 to September 15, 2023. Only 26 Black Women Have Ever Become Astrophysicists in the U.S. Here’s One’s Story. Aomawa Shields, a professor studying exoplanets at the University of California, Irvine, is one of just 26 Black female astrophysicists in American history. Shields says she wanted to write her book Life on Other Planets to show others what it took her a long time to learn: that dreams have no expiration date, that there is no one way to be a scientist and that if no role models can be found, you can be your own. Photo: Dr. Aomawa Shields. (Credit: University of California, Irvine.) Read more. Children's Hospital LA Researcher Wins $2.8M NIH Grant for Retinoblastoma Liquid Biopsy Study. HHMI Awards 50 New Gilliam Fellowships to Advance Equity and Inclusion in Science. In Conversation with Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold.
What makes a brilliant scientist? Who are the people behind the greatest discoveries of our time? Connecting art and science, photographer Herlinde Koelbl seeks the answers in her book “Fascination of Science,” an indelible collection of portraits of and interviews with 60 pioneering scientists of the 21st century. Read more. Image: Frances Arnold at Caltech in 2021 by Christopher Michel (Wikipedia) This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close. The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has announced The Kavli Prize Call for Nominations. Subscribe to our newsletter (RFS Briefings) at Rosalind Franklin Society | Substack Marianna Limas, Social Media Manager |