Spitzer Team Blog

Women in Astronomy and Space Science 2009 11.06.09 - I've just come back from a slew of travel, including the 3rd ever Women in Astronomy conference, which was at the end of October. I'd been to both of the previous conferences like this -- the first was in 1992, in Baltimore, and I was just between college and graduate school when I went. The second one was in 2003, and that one was at Caltech (and I went to that one too). This one was back in the DC area, and so I went back to the East Coast to attend.

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