Soliciting Community Input on the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program
Tingle, Evan
The NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) awards 24 Hubble, Einstein, and Sagan independent postdoctoral fellowships annually. In the summer of 2021, the NASA Astrophysics Division conducted the first programmatic review of the NHFP, intended to increase the effectiveness of the program and bolster its excellence. The review panel’s findings were summarized by the co-chairs in thirty-two recommendations. The report can be found at https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/documents, near the bottom of that page.
NASA is seeking immediate community input on these recommendations in two ways: a hybrid AAS Splinter Session and a Community Survey.
At the 240th AAS meeting, on Wednesday June 15th at 10am PDT, there will be a splinter session consisting of a short overview by NHFP Program Scientist Patricia Knezek of where NASA is in developing an implementation plan responding to the report. There will then be a panel-moderated discussion focused on obtaining feedback from the community about the relative priority of the recommendations and thoughts about effective ways to address the recommendations. The community - especially early-career scientists - is encouraged to attend either in-person at the AAS, or remotely via WebEx:
https://nasaenterprise.webex.com/nasaenterprise/j.php?MTID=m35010c8e934409fa261306c63dd5e010
Wednesday, Jun 15, 2022 10am PDT, 1:00 pm EDT
Meeting number: 2764 106 6977 Password: DPmgGiE@335
Join by video system Dial 27641...@nasaenterprise.webex.com
You can also dial 207.182.190.20 and enter your meeting number.
2. Community Survey
Whether you can attend the Splinter Session or not, we solicit your input via a form available from June 6th, 2022 linked at the NHFP website:
https://www.stsci.edu/stsci-research/fellowships/nasa-hubble-fellowship-program
Prompt community input will help prioritize the Splinter Session discussions, but the survey in this form will remain available to the public until August 1, 2022.
Evan Tingle IT/Data Specialist Chandra Director's Office Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Office: (617) 495 2633 60 Garden Street | MS 67 | Cambridge, MA 02138 |
