Announcements

Nominations for the Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize are invited annually from the fields of astronomy, cosmology, mathematics, and the philosophy of science. Deadline: 15 December 2022.

The Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy's Micro-Grants Program awarded 15 grants of $650 each to BIPOC students in 2022 to support their astronomy/physics graduate school application costs.

The Society's annual report for calendar year 2021 is now available online. It includes a financial report and summarizes membership, meetings, publishing, and other activities.

Your membership renewal reminder, invoice, and a handy return envelope will arrive in your mailbox soon. Don't let your member benefits lapse!

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.

The Steering Committee for the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus is seeking new members. Expressions of interest are welcome from astronomers, developers, data scientists, researchers, librarians, and others.

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.

The AAS Board of Trustees shares a brief update about the response of NASA to the JWST name and process. AAS Style Guide specifies that the acronym JWST need not be spelled out upon first use.

The 241st AAS meeting will be a fully hybrid meeting; while it carries dramatic benefits, the registration rates are a bit higher. Here we provide a detailed explanation of why hybrid meetings are more expensive.

Applications for the 2022 Brown Award are now being accepted from recent PhD recipients whose thesis is based on radio data from any facility operated by Associated Universities, Inc. Deadline: 31 December.

In this Education Committee blog, guest author Daniel Reichart gives an overview of “Our Place In Space!” — a unique survey-level curriculum that leverages “Skynet” and has now been adopted by 30 institutions.

We are revising our COVID-19 health and safety policy for the 241st AAS meeting in Seattle to include a mask mandate alongside our (unchanged) vaccine and booster requirement.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Section D on Astronomy announces an opportunity for individuals to serve on the Steering Committee for 2023. The appointment will begin in January 2023.

A brief farewell address from Julie Davis, the outgoing John N. Bahcall Public Policy Fellow.

In this column from the AAS Historical Astronomy Division, Ken Rumstay of Valdosta State University writes about the first extra-terrestrial roving robot.