AAS Fellows
AAS Grants
- Chrétien International Research Grants
- Dependent Care Grants
- Education & Professional Development Mini-Grants
- FAMOUS Travel Grants
- International Travel Grants
- Hints on Preparing Research Proposals
- National Osterbrock Leadership Program
- Team-UP Together Scholarship
AAS Division Awards
Prize Nominations
AAS Prizes and Awards
- Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy
- Award for Public Service to Science
- Award for Public Service to the Astronomical Sciences
- Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize
- Beth Brown Memorial Award
- Chambliss Amateur Achievement Award
- Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award
- Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Awards
- Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
- Education Prize
- George Van Biesbroeck Prize
- Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
- Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation
- Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture
- Lancelot M. Berkeley - New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy
- Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy
- Priscilla and Bart Bok Awards and the Richard D. Lines Special Award
- Rodger Doxsey Travel Prize
Carl Rodriguez
For fundamental advances on the astrophysical origin of gravitational-wave sources. Rodriguez discerned how repeat mergers of black holes and stars in dense clusters would lead to the existence of massive black holes, a prediction later verified by gravitational-wave detectors. His work has opened new directions in research into gravitational-wave sources and their connection to the formation of both star clusters and galaxies.
Carl Rodriguez
For fundamental advances on the astrophysical origin of gravitational-wave sources. Rodriguez discerned how repeat mergers of black holes and stars in dense clusters would lead to the existence of massive black holes, a prediction later verified by gravitational-wave detectors. His work has opened new directions in research into gravitational-wave sources and their connection to the formation of both star clusters and galaxies.
Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy
Charles Liu
For his national and international impact as an enthusiastic astronomy educator throughout his career — including his contributions to informal education via his work at the American Museum of Natural History, his numerous popular science books, and his podcast "The LIUniverse"; as well as his contributions to formal education as a professor and mentor. The award also recognizes his service to the astronomy education community as AAS Education Officer and inaugural Chair of the AAS Education Committee.
Charles Liu
For his national and international impact as an enthusiastic astronomy educator throughout his career — including his contributions to informal education via his work at the American Museum of Natural History, his numerous popular science books, and his podcast "The LIUniverse"; as well as his contributions to formal education as a professor and mentor. The award also recognizes his service to the astronomy education community as AAS Education Officer and inaugural Chair of the AAS Education Committee.
Education Prize
Dan Caseldan
For his outstanding participation in the Backyard Worlds citizen science projects, including pioneering the application of machine learning to solar neighborhood ultracool dwarf searches; and for the discovery of numerous brown dwarfs that together reshape our understanding of substellar prevalence and diversity in the Milky Way.
Dan Caseldan
For his outstanding participation in the Backyard Worlds citizen science projects, including pioneering the application of machine learning to solar neighborhood ultracool dwarf searches; and for the discovery of numerous brown dwarfs that together reshape our understanding of substellar prevalence and diversity in the Milky Way.
Chambliss Amateur Achievement Award
Daniel Baumann
For Cosmology (2022 Cambridge University Press), a textbook that provides graduate-level cosmology content with the production and features typical of the best new undergraduate texts.
Daniel Baumann
For Cosmology (2022 Cambridge University Press), a textbook that provides graduate-level cosmology content with the production and features typical of the best new undergraduate texts.
2022 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award
Dennis Zaritsky
For his innovative observations probing the structure and evolution of galaxies.
Dennis Zaritsky
For his innovative observations probing the structure and evolution of galaxies.
Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize
Frederick Seward
For the establishment and implementation of the first open, peer-reviewed Guest Observer program for a Principal-Investigator-led NASA space-based observatory, including developing and refining procedures and policies that later became standard practice for satellite missions.
Frederick Seward
For the establishment and implementation of the first open, peer-reviewed Guest Observer program for a Principal-Investigator-led NASA space-based observatory, including developing and refining procedures and policies that later became standard practice for satellite missions.
George Van Biesbroeck Prize
Jennifer Bergner
For her innovative astrochemical work at the intersection of laboratory experiments, theory, and observations, which has established new pathways to interstellar chemical complexity.
Jennifer Bergner
For her innovative astrochemical work at the intersection of laboratory experiments, theory, and observations, which has established new pathways to interstellar chemical complexity.
Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy
John Carlstrom
For his pioneering work on microwave interferometry and his leading role in the development of the South Pole Telescope, which has led to cosmological observations that have improved our understanding of the large-scale structure and behavior of the universe, changing the field for generations to come.
John Carlstrom
For his pioneering work on microwave interferometry and his leading role in the development of the South Pole Telescope, which has led to cosmological observations that have improved our understanding of the large-scale structure and behavior of the universe, changing the field for generations to come.
Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
Maria Drout
For revealing discoveries of the evolution, influence, and end states of massive stars through the study of explosive transients and resolved stellar populations. Dr. Drout unveiled a class of rapidly evolving transients and the first known population of intermediate mass helium stars stripped in binaries. She developed new techniques to identify and characterize evolved massive stars in elusive phases, thereby revising our views on how stars meet their final fates.
Maria Drout
For revealing discoveries of the evolution, influence, and end states of massive stars through the study of explosive transients and resolved stellar populations. Dr. Drout unveiled a class of rapidly evolving transients and the first known population of intermediate mass helium stars stripped in binaries. She developed new techniques to identify and characterize evolved massive stars in elusive phases, thereby revising our views on how stars meet their final fates.
Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy
Neta Bahcall
For her central contributions to determining the average density of matter in the universe and establishing the concordance model of cosmology, and for her dedication to astronomical education and her exemplary service to the community.
Neta Bahcall
For her central contributions to determining the average density of matter in the universe and establishing the concordance model of cosmology, and for her dedication to astronomical education and her exemplary service to the community.
Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
Paul Goldsmith
For his pioneering advancements in millimeter-wave astronomy and astronomical receivers, especially his notable development of quasioptics — in which the wavelength of propagating electromagnetic radiation is comparable to the size of the optical components — that underpins much subsequent work in the field.
Paul Goldsmith
For his pioneering advancements in millimeter-wave astronomy and astronomical receivers, especially his notable development of quasioptics — in which the wavelength of propagating electromagnetic radiation is comparable to the size of the optical components — that underpins much subsequent work in the field.
Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation
Rachel Bezanson
Bezanson and the UNCOVER JWST Project Team are being honored "for the remarkable diversity of ground-breaking science that has resulted from their deep imaging and spectroscopic survey of Pandora's Cluster with JWST, including the discovery and spectral characterization of galaxies at redshifts of z > 10, detection of the earliest supermassive black holes and active galactic nuclei, and analysis of tens of thousands of galaxies spanning nearly all of cosmic time."
Rachel Bezanson
Bezanson and the UNCOVER JWST Project Team are being honored "for the remarkable diversity of ground-breaking science that has resulted from their deep imaging and spectroscopic survey of Pandora's Cluster with JWST, including the discovery and spectral characterization of galaxies at redshifts of z > 10, detection of the earliest supermassive black holes and active galactic nuclei, and analysis of tens of thousands of galaxies spanning nearly all of cosmic time."
Fred Kavli Plenary Lecturer
Viviana Acquaviva
For the textbook Machine Learning for Physics and Astronomy (2023 Princeton University Press), which provides a useful guide to cutting-edge knowledge and skills at a graduate-student level, packaged in a well-produced and accessible text.
Viviana Acquaviva
For the textbook Machine Learning for Physics and Astronomy (2023 Princeton University Press), which provides a useful guide to cutting-edge knowledge and skills at a graduate-student level, packaged in a well-produced and accessible text.