A Gold Medal for America’s Rosies, the Women on the Home Front: Rosie the Riveters, American women who filled a crucial labor shortage during World War II and reshaped the work force, were honored at the Capitol. nytimes.com/2024/04/10/us/…

Clear laws giving intellectual property rights to human inventors who use artificial intelligence will allow us to take advantage of the remarkable advances AI can bring to biotechnology, a biotech patent expert told Congress on April 10. bio.news/federal-policy…

Read our newsletter for biweekly updates, leadership insights, and opportunities for #WomenInScience : rosalindfranklinsociety.substack.com/p/rfs-briefing… and don't miss our new 'Monthly Mondays' series! Follow, subscribe, and stay inspired: rosalindfranklinsociety.org #WomeninSTEM

.Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University, hunts for aliens in space by studying Earth across time. nytimes.com/2024/04/10/sci… #WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience

In this 4-hour event–The State of #Omics —leaders from the world of genome technology, analysis, #NGS and multiomics offer a pulsating view of the rapid progress in this field. webinars.liebertpub.com/e/the-state-of…

Maiken Nedergaard Wins 2024 HFSP Nakasone Award for Pioneering Science of Sleep and Neurodegenerative Disease: hfsp.org/hfsp-news/maik…
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Six people, including four women, were selected as this year's winners of the Samsung Hoam Award. (Dr. K. Heran Darwin is a Vilcek Foundation board member) hoamfoundation.org/eng/award/this…

Join NASEM Health #MentalHealthForum for a hybrid public workshop April 29-30. Speakers will identify essential health care services related to anxiety and mood disorders in women. Register here: events.nationalacademies.org/41684_04-2024_… #WomensHealth #HealthEquity #HealthDisparities

The Pathways to Prevention (P2P) workshop Identifying Risks and Interventions to Optimize Postpartum Health aims to address the maternal health crisis by identifying and closing research gaps in postpartum health.
orwh.od.nih.gov/in-the-spotlig…

.FASEB announced this year’s recipients of its Excellence in Science Awards: Holly Ingraham UC San Francisco, Pilar Alcaide Tufts School of Medicine, and Mariana Xavier Byndloss Vanderbilt University Medical Center and HHMI NEWS. Read more about their extraordinary achievements: faseb.org/journals-and-n…

This month, Katz Institute for Women's Health sat down with LaShonda Anderson-Williams, EVP & chief strategy officer of Salesforce Global Health & Life Sciences. northwell.edu/katz-institute…

Former Hunter College President Jennifer Raab just after the start of the new year took on a new assignment as CEO and president of the New York Stem Cell Foundation. cityandstateny.com/personality/20… Jennifer J. Raab @nyscf

Women’s representation in senior level positions at US companies faces an “alarming turning point,” with steady growth showing signs of fatigue for the first time in two decades, according to a new report. news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/alarming-t…

ARPA-H launches program to retrain immune cells and combat challenging diseases: arpa-h.gov/news-and-event…

The CDC Foundation’s Fries Awards for Health is accepting nominations now through May 7th for both the Fries Prize for Improving Health and the Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award. cdcfoundation.org/fries-awards

Estella Bergere Leopold was a palaeobotanist whose studies of fossil pollen and spores helped to reconstruct past environments and link them to the present. nature.com/articles/d4158…

‘Maybe I was never meant to be in science’: how imposter syndrome seizes scientist mothers

Brazilian biologist Fernanda Staniscuaski saw career opportunities diminish after returning from parental leave, prompting her to take action. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Check out this new book by Carol Shoshkes Reiss, an RFS board member and Editor-In-Chief of DNA and Cell Biology
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.) amazon.com/One-Unintended…
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There is one month left to nominate an organization for the 2025 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize: hiltonfoundation.org/humanitarian-p… Hilton Foundation

Overlooked No More: Henrietta Leavitt, Who Unraveled Mysteries of the Stars

The portrait that emerged from her discovery, called Leavitt’s Law, showed that the universe was hundreds of times bigger than astronomers had imagined.
nytimes.com/2024/03/27/obi…