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Last chance! Renew your AAS membership before 1 March to ensure continued benefits and avoid additional fees.

A gathering in Richmond, Kentucky, on Saturday, 9 April 2016, is the second of a new type of AAS meeting designed to foster closer ties and to support research and teaching endeavors in astronomy.

We've been waiting with great anticipation for the FY 2017 President's Budget Request, and on 9 February 2016, it finally arrived. We'll discuss how the astronomical sciences have fared within NASA, NSF, and DOE.

The InterAcademy Partnership has released a new publication that offers guidance on conducting research responsibly in an environment that is increasingly international and multidisciplinary.

The Spitzer Science Center is pleased to announce the release of the Cycle-13 Call for Proposals. This is the final Call for Proposals that will solicit all proposal sizes. Letters of Intent due 24 March 2016.

The AAS will be sending one student to the AAAS-organized CASE Workshop. The application period will be open until 11:59 pm ET 10 March 2016.

Register for the 228th AAS Meeting today to take advantage of the Early registration rate, which ends 22 February, and submit your abstract by the regular deadline of 3 March.

Explore the science and technology behind gravitational waves and the instruments used to observe them with members of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration in an interactive online get-together.

We honor the memory of our departed colleagues. The Historical Astronomy Division commissions and compiles obituaries for deceased AAS members and depends on you, our members, for help writing them.

AAS member Stefan Kautsch shares an op-ed piece he recently published in several Florida newspapers to explain to the public why what astronomers do is important.

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

Haven't renewed your AAS membership for 2016? Renew today to ensure continued benefits and avoid additional fees!

The 305-meter William E. Gordon Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico is the world's largest single-dish radio telescope. Proposals for observations beginning in July 2016 are due by 3 March 2016.

A new report from the American Institute of Physics Statistical Research Center examines what new physics PhDs from the classes of 2013 and 2014 are doing the year after receiving their degrees.

The National Science Board recently published Science and Engineering Indicators 2016, which presents data on STEM education, the STEM workforce, federal investment, and public opinions.