Announcements

Join this interactive online hangout 6 May at 3:00 pm ET to hear about how scientists are working to prevent life from Earth from contaminating future Mars missions, and to prevent bringing anything home to Earth.

The AAS brought a few members to Washington, DC, to present their National Science Foundation-supported work on Capitol Hill.

AAS President Meg Urry of Yale University and Timothy Heckman of Johns Hopkins University have joined 2,289 other researchers as active members of the US National Academy of Sciences.

Abstract submissions are now being accepted for the joint Division for Planetary Sciences / European Planetary Science Congress meeting. Deadline: 23 June 2016

Submit your white papers on education, professional development, and public outreach, and the Society's role in these areas, to the AAS Education Task Force by 12 May.

Attend the edit-a-thon during the summer meeting to help improve the quality of astronomy content on Wikipedia. Become a facilitator for the workshop and receive complimentary meeting registration.

Hurry! The 228th AAS meeting discounted room block at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront closes Friday, 6 May, and online registration ends Monday, 16 May.

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

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

Plans for the 229th meeting of the AAS are well under way, and proposals are now being accepted for Special Sessions, Town Halls, Workshops, and Splinter Meetings.

The AAS Council has created a task force to provide the AAS with a data-driven, well-considered path for the future of the Society’s educational philosophy and activities. Your input is requested!

Proposal acceptance rates for the Chandra X-ray Observatory were higher for men than women in the early years, but they have been indistinguishable since 2009. That's good news!

The spending bills for FY 2017 that include NASA, NSF, and DOE have been approved by the Senate Appropriations committee, and are summarized within this post.

We know there's gender+age bias in proposal reviews. Shouldn't we all follow the Hubble team's example and try to fix it?

Congratulations to AAS Junior Member Sherwood Richers for being selected as a 2016-2017 Blue Waters Graduate Fellow!