{"id":639845,"date":"2019-12-06T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=639845"},"modified":"2019-12-06T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T11:00:01","slug":"astronomy-fellowship-demonstrates-measures-to-dismantle-bias-increase-diversity-in-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=639845","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy fellowship demonstrates measures to dismantle bias, increase diversity in STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, the Heising-Simons Foundation\u2014a family foundation that works in climate and clean energy, science, education, and human rights\u2014established the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship to support early-career astronomers engaged in planetary research. Just over a year later, the Foundation announced that it would overhaul the selection process for the program because, out of 12 fellowships awarded in the program&#8217;s first two years, only two\u2014one each year\u2014went to female scientists.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-12-astronomy-fellowship-dismantle-bias-diversity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Astronomy fellowship demonstrates measures to dismantle bias, increase diversity in STEM<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, the Heising-Simons Foundation\u2014a family foundation that works in climate and clean energy, science, education, and human rights\u2014established the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship to support early-career astronomers engaged in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}