{"id":107,"date":"2009-03-05T13:32:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T18:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/03\/05\/congratulations-to-alicia-soderberg\/"},"modified":"2009-03-08T12:19:14","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T17:19:14","slug":"congratulations-to-alicia-soderberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/03\/05\/congratulations-to-alicia-soderberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Alicia Soderberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alicia Soderberg<\/a> is the winner of the 2009 Annie Jump Cannon award<\/a>.\u00a0 This very prestigious award is given by the American Astronomical Society to a female astronomer, at most 5 years post-Ph.D., for “outstanding research and promise for future research.”<\/p>\n

I taught Alicia when she was an undergraduate at Bates College.\u00a0 In fact, I think I was nominally the advisor for her senior thesis or something.\u00a0 I say “nominally,” because I really had little or nothing to do with it: her thesis work was with a group at Harvard, and she\u00a0 really worked with them, not me.\u00a0\u00a0 (Even so, I’m a bit embarrassed that I can’t remember for sure whether I was her advisor: I don’t think that there are any other students about whom I’m unsure whether I was\u00a0 their research advisor!)<\/p>\n

By the way, if you don’t know who Annie Jump Cannon<\/a> was, you should read about her.\u00a0 She did very important work in astronomy, figuring out the classification of stars that is still used today, at a time when women were largely excluded from science. Despite the importance of hr work, she was denied full recognition, only receiving a proper academic appointment very late in her career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alicia Soderberg is the winner of the 2009 Annie Jump Cannon award.\u00a0 This very prestigious award is given by the American Astronomical Society to a female astronomer, at most 5 years post-Ph.D., for “outstanding research and promise for future research.” I taught Alicia when she was an undergraduate at Bates College.\u00a0 In fact, I think … Continue reading Congratulations to Alicia Soderberg<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}