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Svaha STEM-themed dresses were in full effect at Women in Astronomy IV, so much so that we’re giving them their own post! 

I was thrilled to be sporting my first Svaha purchase the Rocket Science dress, (one of their newest designs) featuring chalkboard style equations and diagrams related to the calculations from Hidden Figures. Pictured with me is Claudia Knez, who is an astronomer at the University of Maryland specializing in millimeter wave astronomy. On the first day she was rocking Svaha’s Mathematical Symbols dress. 

Columbia alum, Jennifer Weston, is next in the DNA Double Helix dress. 

Lastly, it’s Claudia again along with Eva Noyola, an astronomer from the University of Texas at Austin, in their matching Constellations dresses - which by the way GLOW IN THE DARK. 

Not Pictured: Claudia in the physics equations dress and Jennifer in the periodic table dress, which they both wore over the weekend as well! 

See all of Svaha’s adult designs here, and check out all our previous Svaha posts here. 

ALL HAIL WOMEN IN STEM DRESSING ROCKING STEM FASHION. 

- Summer

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I'm in the *very* early stages of literature review and proposal writing for a practitioner-oriented paper on the effectiveness of outreach in astronomy. I'm trying to decide between designing a tool to measure the effectiveness of pre-existing campus outreach events, relying on survey analysis, or actually doing an entire outreach experiment from the ground up (almost certainly not the latter though). Do you have any ideas off the top of your head for papers/projects that I should look into?

Sorry that it’s taken me a minute to get back to you.  Job hunt craziness.

I’d recommend everything and anything to do with Summer Ash.  Summer co-runs Astronomy on Tap here in NYC.

Look for her here: https://twitter.com/Summer_Ash