<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">HI all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This came from the postdoc office at CU. I think that this will be of interest to many of you.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Paula</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">pac_universe (Leah Elizabeth Colvin Wanshura)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pac_universe@lists.colorado.edu" target="_blank">pac_universe@lists.colorado.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:55 AM<br>Subject: Special talk - Challenges and Benefits of Equity and Inclusion for Academic Success<br>To: "<a href="mailto:pac_universe@lists.colorado.edu" target="_blank">pac_universe@lists.colorado.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:pac_universe@lists.colorado.edu" target="_blank">pac_universe@lists.colorado.edu</a>><br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT Std",sans-serif">Dr. Meg Urry of Yale University will give a special talk, open to all, on Thursday, Jan. 21, at 3 pm in the JILA Auditorium. (JILA Tower, ground floor at the end connecting to
Duane). Dr. Urry is President of the American Astronomical Society, former chair of the Yale Astronomy Department, and a national leader advocating for women in academia. Dr. Urry’s talk is titled, “Challenges and Benefits of Equity and Inclusion for Academic
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She will review current statistics in physics and astronomy; discuss research showing that current admissions and hiring practices are discriminatory and poorly correlated with measures of excellence; and address the recent harassment scandals in astronomy.<br>
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Dr. Urry is on campus to speak at the premiere of “Vera Rubin: Bringing the Dark to Light,” a joint production of Fiske Planetarium and the Boulder Ensemble Theater Company. As a young women Vera Rubin was one of the first to discover that our universe is filled
with dark matter. The play is unique in using video on the Fiske dome as the set of the play.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT Std",sans-serif;color:black">Attached is an article Dr. Urry recently published in Nature entitled, Scientists must work harder on equality.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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