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A report from the American Institute of Physics examines the demographics, educational background, financial support, teaching-assistant experience, and career goals of first-year graduate students in physics and...

The public nomination period for the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics — theoretical, mathematical, and/or experimental — is now open. Nomination deadline: 1 April 2020.

Faith Vilas, Editor of our new Planetary Science Journal, has been named the 2019 recipient of the Fred Whipple Award, the highest honor given by the Planetary Sciences section of the American Geophysical Union.

Our Public Policy staff and Committee on Light Pollution, Radio Interference, and Space Debris have assembled a working group to facilitate communication between the astronomical community and SpaceX.

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

Gemini Observatory is offering users and potential users personalized help at the Gemini booth in the Exhibit Hall at the 235th AAS meeting in Honolulu, Hawai‛i, in January.

Today and all week we celebrate #GivingTuesday! Help us and our future FAMOUS (Funds for Astronomical Meetings: Outreach to Underrepresented Scientists) grantees by donating to the FAMOUS Travel Grants Program.

Most AAS members receive the magazine Physics Today as a membership benefit. The December issue is now en route to subscribers' mailboxes and can be accessed online.

The AAS Board of Trustees recently passed an update to the rules governing the adoption of policy resolutions for the Society.

Here is a look at events on the schedule for December 2019.

The International Astronomical Union has selected Haus der Astronomie, an astronomy outreach center based in Heidelberg, Germany, as the location for its new Office of Astronomy for Education.

Numerous AAS members are among the scientists elected to the 2019 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Upper-level undergraduates and early graduate students interested in astronomical instrumentation are invited to spend a week at the University of California, Berkeley, 20-24 July 2020. Application deadline: 23 January...

Sarah M. Hörst (Johns Hopkins University) is being honored by the AAS Laboratory Astrophysics Division for laboratory research advancing our understanding of photochemical haze formation in planetary atmospheres.