Current time at conference location:
Tuesday, January 9, 2024 | 2:00 PM CT - 3:30 PM CT
Session ID
244
Session Title
The NASA Hubble Fellowship Program: Creating 21st Century Leaders in Astronomy
Session Type
Special Session
Room
220
Session Chair
Antonino Cucchiara
Summary
The NASA Hubble Fellowship Program and its precursors, including the Hubble, Einstein and Sagan Fellowships, have for 35 years been a key NASA contribution towards the advancement of the careers of many talented early career scientists and through them have contributed to many important endeavors in the exploration of the Universe.


In 2020 NASA commissioned a program review with a special emphasis on diversity, equity and inclusion. The results were published in January 2022. As part of this extensive study thirty-two recommendations were sent to NASA HQ aimed at improving and updating different aspects of the program.
Immediately following this study NASA established a taskforce to address these recommendations, and as many as 30% of them were implemented starting with the 2022 Announcement of Opportunity (some even pre-dated the NHFP review).

In this special session we intend to update the community on the status of the NHFP program,
the initiatives taken by the taskforce and already adopted, as well as present the results of the Community Feedback form launched in Summer 2023, that focused on some of the most challenging recommendations.
The session will be organized by NASA Headquarters in collaboration with the program Leads and Goddard Space Flight Center (which manages the NHFP), and will include invited presentations by members of the taskforce as well as of the original review committee.

Presentations