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[Christine Nattrass <saccharomyces.cerevisae AT gmail.com>]

    Dear all - 
    
    Please see below for information on a workshop to explore systemic
    issues facing mid-career women in large physics collaborations.  If
    you are potentially interested, even if you are unsure if you meet
    the definition of mid-career, please follow the link to share your
    contact information.  The range of potential participants is late
    tenure track to within about 10 years post-tenure.
    
    Thanks
    Christine

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Mid-Act 2024 (March 1-2) - A workshop for Mid-Career Women in Physics Collaborations Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 16:22:36 -0500 From: Fomin, Nadia <nfomin AT utk.edu> To: Nattrass, Christine Elizabeth <cnattras AT utk.edu>

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        Nadia

        Mid-career
          women in physics collaborations face strikingly similar
          challenges across different collaborations and subfields in
          particle physics, nuclear physics, and astronomy. UT faculty
          and partners have developed a pilot workshop to get to the
          root of these challenges and find solutions to mitigate them.

        With
          an emphasis on recruiting at the student level there's been a
          slow increase in the number of early-career women in physics.
          As they enter the mid-career stage, however, they encounter
          challenges for which they have no training and often lack a
          professional support system.

        The
          Mid-Act workshop will explore systemic issues that cause women
          to abandon leadership positions (or leave the field
          completely), as well as common root causes of hurdles
          mid-career women face in leadership roles across different
          physics collaborations and subfields. The project will explore
          potential mitigation strategies and engage social science
          faculty as workshop facilitators. This is the first systematic
          look at evaluating and documenting the issues mid-career women
          in physics encounter and making community recommendations.

        If
          you would like to to participate, please share your contact info (link
          also available from http://www.phys.utk.edu/midact2024/)

        Travel
          support will be provided and childcare support is available.

        Nadia
          Fomin (UT), Naoko Kurahashi-Neilson and Michelle Dolinski
          (Drexel University), Lauren Tompkins (Stanford) and Toyoko
          Orimoto (Northeastern University) developed the program. Joe
          Miles from UT's Department of Psychology will facilitate the
          workshop and analyze the findings.

        This
            workshop is supported by a grant from the Heising-Simons
            Foundation.

Dr. Nadia Fomin

          she,
                her, hers

APS Councilor

Professor of Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996

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