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The AAS Journals and the AAS Working Group on Accessibility and Disability are hosting a special training session about accessibility issues in published literature at the 231st AAS meeting.

The Spitzer Science Center is pleased to announce the release of the Cycle-14 Call for Proposals. This is the final Call for Proposals that will solicit all proposal sizes. Deadline: 16 March 2018.

In town for the DC meeting? Stop by the National Gallery of Art for the rare opportunity to view Vermeer’s "The Astronomer" and "The Geographer" paintings.

The ARO is currently accepting observing proposals for the ALMA Prototype 12-meter Telescope and the 10-meter Submillimeter Telescope. Proposal deadline: 16 January.

Attendees arriving early to the 231st AAS meeting in Washington, DC, are invited to attend the NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship Symposium on 7-8 January.

We take a look at the stopgap funding measure known as a Continuing Resolution (CR) that passed on Thursday, 7 December, but that keeps the government open only through 22 December 2017.

Each month in this series from the AAS Historical Astronomy Division, an important event in the history of astronomy will be highlighted. This month, we remember AAS member John Bahcall.

Attend the WorldWide Telescope workshop at the AAS winter meeting to learn how to use WWT for research, education, or outreach.

Gemini Observatory is offering users and potential users personalized help at the Gemini booth in the Exhibit Hall at the 231st AAS meeting near Washington, DC, in January.

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

The AAS Executive Office seeks members — several hundred! — to judge posters for the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Awards at the 231st AAS meeting. Can you help?

This week, ask your Senators and Representative to strongly oppose the repeal of the income exclusion for graduate tuition waivers in the final version of the tax reform bill.

Join an online hangout on Thursday, 14 December, at 3:00 pm ET, to hear how stars can form and survive near a galaxy's central supermassive black hole.

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.

In this monthly feature of the AAS Policy Blog, we share a calendar of upcoming events in science policy that may be of interest to our members.