Announcements

The Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring program is now accepting nominations for the 2024-2025 cycle.

The Astrophysics Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate is pleased to issue this open call for nominations to serve on the Executive Committee of NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG).

Roohi Dalal has joined the AAS staff as Deputy Director of Public Policy in October 2024.

In this Education Committee Blog post, Katy Rodriguez Wimberly and coauthors describe a new seminar course designed to help address the attrition of physics majors, with a focus on marginalized students.

In this column from the AAS Historical Astronomy Division, Mike Marotta writes about the first artificial Earth satellite, Sputnik 1.

Some AAS members are receiving phishing emails spoofing messages from Society leaders or other members but actually coming from scammers. Here's how to spot them.

The National Academies’ Board on International Scientific Organizations has launched a project to assess the experiences in applying for a short-term business visa to visit the US.

Most AAS members receive the magazine Physics Today, published by the American Institute of Physics, as a membership benefit. The October 2024 issue is now en route to subscribers' mailboxes and can be accessed online.

Astrophysicist and AAS member Keivan Stassun (Vanderbilt University) is one of 22 writers, scientists, artists, social scientists, humanists, teachers, and entrepreneurs in the 2024 class of MacArthur Fellows.

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.

In this Education Committee Blog post, Mariah MacDonald discusses how she implements "ungrading," an alternative approach to student assessment, and summarizes its effect on student performance and motivation.

Dr. Chintan Shah (Johns Hopkins University) is being honored by the AAS Laboratory Astrophysics Division for contributions in the field of modeling and X-ray/ultraviolet spectroscopy of atoms in astrophysical plasma...

Michael McCarthy (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian) will receive the AAS Laboratory Astrophysics Division's highest honor in recognition of his contributions to the field of high-resolution spectroscopy of...

In this Education Committee Blog post, Julie Posselt introduces democratic merit as an anchoring concept that can improve how we select and train the next generation in astronomy and astrophysics.

The High Contrast Data Centre, previously the SPHERE Data Centre, is pleased to announce some recent evolutions, including a new website, a new query interface, and new data releases.