For years Taviare Hawkins avoided giving talks about being a Black woman in physics. “I didn’t want to be pigeonholed,” she says; she wanted to be known for her science. Eventually, though, through a zigzagging path that included good mentors, personal initiative, and several jobs, she came to see the importance of serving as a visible role model.

Congratulations to Postdoctoral Research Scholar Dr. Rachael Filwett on the funding ($876,548) of her Heliophysics Living With a Star (H-LWS) Science Program proposal, funded by NASA, titled “Suprathermal Property Scaling and Acceleration Processes from the Near-Sun Environment to 1AU”.