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The annual AIP Follow-up Survey of physics and astronomy PhD recipients, classes of 2015 and 2016, contains information on initial employment and employment status one year after degree.

Want to be mission principal investigators? Apply to attend a November workshop in Tucson, Arizona, on how to attain leadership positions on mission proposals and large science teams. Deadline: 4 October 2019.

A new report from the American Institute of Physics Statistical Research Center details the initial employment outcomes of astronomy degree recipients from the classes of 2014, 2015, and 2016 combined.

If you're interested in the intersection of science, policy, and international affairs, the American Institute of Physics encourages you to apply for the 2020-21 AIP State Department Fellowship. Deadline: 15 October.

This column from the AAS Historical Astronomy Division by guest author Virginia Trimble reflects on one hundred years of the International Astronomical Union.

A new report shows more African Americans graduating from college in many engineering and physical sciences fields but not progressing at the same rate as the general population.

The International Astronomical Union's PhD Prize is awarded by each of its nine Divisions and recognizes outstanding scientific achievement worldwide. Application deadline: 15 December 2019.

Here's some good news from AAS Publishing: The impact factors of three of our peer-reviewed journals have increased over the last year, two of them by a lot.

The Society's annual report for calendar year 2018 is now available as a PDF. It includes a financial report and summarizes membership, meetings, and other activities.

Set your sights on 2020: expanded iPoster opportunities, a new exoplanet and solar system journal, subscriptions to Sky & Telescope, and more for members.

Here is a look at events on the schedule for September.

AAS Nova provides highlights of recent articles from AJ, ApJ, ApJ Letters, and ApJ Supplements to inform you about discoveries you might otherwise overlook.

A budget deal for fiscal years 2020 and 2021 was signed into law on 2 August, and the NASA operating plan for 2019 was made public. This is an overview of how things line up.

The $3 million prize will be shared equally by the 347 co-authors of last April's six ApJ Letters papers presenting and analyzing the first image of a galaxy's central black hole.

The "Super Bowl of Astronomy" touches down in Hawai‘i 4-8 January 2020 when the AAS and its Historical Astronomy and High Energy Astrophysics Divisions gather for AAS 235 in Honolulu.