Gaining Tenure: Rules Your Chairman Never Told You
May 5, 2000
By Lawrence Douglas and Alexander George
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Survey Points to Mismatch Between Ph.D. Students, Their Programs, and Their Potential Employers
Tuesday, January 16, 2001
By Scott Smallwood
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Why You'll Want a Mentor Outside the Ivory Tower, Too
Friday, December 7, 2001
By Robin B. Wagner
Copyright 2001, The Chronicle of Higher Education
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September 4, 2002
Leaving the Bench for a Corporate Perch
By Mary Dillon Johnson from the Chronicle of Higher Education
By Michelle Thaller, csmonitor.com / January 28, 2004
Pasadena, CA
Every January, professional astronomers converge on a medium-sized convention center for the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society. This year, the good city of Atlanta (not so medium sized) was host to this event, and seeing as I had gone to graduate school in Atlanta, I was looking forward not only to catching up on all the cutting-edge astronomy that would be presented at the convention, but also to re-connecting with old friends.
GLOBE at Night, now in its 6th year, encourages astronomers and citizen-scientists worldwide to record the brightness of the night sky to help create a global map of light pollution. During two weeks of moonless evenings, observers compare the appearance of a constellation (Orion in February/March and Leo or Crux in March/April) with the view depicted on seven charts showing progressively fainter stars. They then go online to report their date, time, location, and the number of the chart that best matches their view of the constellation. New this year: Observers with smart phones or tablets can submit their measurements from the field in real time!
The Astro2010 report, New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics, will be publically released in pre-publication form via the National Academies Press website and an eTownHall webcast at 11:00 a.m. EDT on Friday, August 13, 2010. The fully edited final publication version of the report will emerge later in the year.
September 7, 2010
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Below are the presentations from recent workshops. The AAS Committee on Employment will hold similar events at future AAS meetings.
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AAS Resolutions related to research, education, society and astronomy as a profession.
The Employment Committee of the AAS recently conducted a survey that showed a great interest from our constituents on the variety of career paths taken by astronomers. If you are an astronomer working in a non-traditional job, we'd love to hear from you. Please contact us at industry@aas.org and help us make this page a more effective mentoring and networking tool.