(Johnson, Stefanie Kathleen - 2020) -- Group Achievement Award
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Dr. Stefanie K. Johnson, associate professor and author of this year’s Wall Street Journal bestseller Inclusify, received NASA’s prestigious 2020 Agency Honors Group Achievement Award for her work on reducing gender bias in their Hubble Space Telescope program.
Johnson was recognized, “for outstanding effort in strengthening the review of Hubble Space Telescope observing proposals, sparking a revolution in the evaluation of proposals in space science,” according to a NASA representative.
Her research with co-author Jessica Kirk of the University of Memphis identified that women lead scientists were being awarded access to the Hubble Space Telescope at a lower rate than men. Their study encompassed 16 application cycles and over 15,545 applications.
