STATUS

January 2005

Page 1: Beatrice Tinsley: A Tribute, by Robert C. Kennicutt, Jr.

Page 1: Nobel Prize for a "Computer" named Henrietta Leavitt (1868-1921), by Pangratios Papacosta

Page 9: What Works for Women in Undergraduate Physics? by Barbara L. Whitten, Suzanne R. Foster, and Margaret L. Duncombe

Page 15: Applying for Graduate School, by Fran Bagenal

Page 18: Women in Canadian Astronomy: A Ten Year Survey, by Mike Reid and Brenda Matthews

Page 21: Progress on Gender Equity at Nine Top Research Universities, by J. L. Sokolski

Page 23: Childcare of University of Arizona: Investing in the Future, bu Joannah Hinz and Jill Bechtold

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