The OWSD Annual Report 2020 is now available; start the download of the PDF here.
From the summary of the report announcement: "Despite the pandemic, OWSD managed many accomplishments in 2020. We awarded 26 new PhD fellowships, including to candidates in Afghanistan and Nicaragua for the first time in OWSD’s history, and saw 23 fellows join the ranks of PhD graduates. Twenty-three Early Career fellowships were also awarded, including to 10 women scientists from least developed countries. From March to April, we conducted an update to our membership database to remove inactive members; while this initially dropped the number of OWSD members on record from 8680 to 4830, the difference is already being quickly made up by a record number of new membership applications (1850), with a proliferation of new members in Latin America, as well as in other countries thanks to the efforts of new National Chapters in Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Palestine, and Senegal. By the end of 2020, we had already reached 6230 active members. And in February, we were lucky to be able to recognize the five winners of the 2020 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards in person at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in Seattle, Washington, before global travel was halted."