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The National Academies' committee for the midterm assessment of the implementation of the New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics decadal survey seeks your input.

Reminders to renew your AAS membership were mailed last month. If you recently mailed a payment or renewed online, thank you! If not, now is the time. Don't let your membership benefits lapse!

Communicating Astronomy with the Public 2016 will convene in Medellín, Colombia, next 16-20 May. Abstracts for oral presentations, posters, and workshops are now welcome. Deadline: 25 January 2016.

The countdown has begun for the 227th AAS meeting, Monday-Friday, 4-8 January 2016, in Kissimmee, Florida, just outside Orlando and only an hour’s drive from Cape Canaveral and the historic Space Coast.

Explore the science and technology behind gravitational waves and the instruments used to observe them with experts Shane Larson, Joey Shapiro-Key, and Ira Thorpe in an interactive online get-together.

The Gruber Foundation invites nominations for the 2016 Gruber Cosmology Prize, which is designed both to recognize groundbreaking work and to inspire additional research. Deadline: 15 December 2015.

The second edition of the Handbook of Frequency Allocations and Spectrum Protection for Scientific Uses is now available from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

In short: Not yet. Fiscal year 2016 has had a bumpy start, but things are starting to look like they are settling down. Read on to learn about the current status of FY 2016. Updated: 16 December.

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.

The XSEDE internship program exposes US undergraduates and graduate students to high-performance computing (HPC), including training and access to HPC resources. Application deadline: 1 February 2016.

Nominations are now open for the $500,000 Ambartsumian Prize, one of the most important international awards in astronomy, astrophysics, and related sciences. Deadline: 18 March 2016.

The National Science Foundation seeks community input on viable concepts for the future continued operation of Arecibo Observatory. Read and respond to NSF's Dear Colleague letter by 31 December.

Dara Norman and her colleagues invite your input on revising the AAS Ethics Statement to add policies and procedures for filing complaints and responding to them.

Only full members are generally eligible for elected positions within the Society. To ensure that early-career members' voices are heard, Meg Urry is creating a special advisory board.

President Obama welcomed hundreds of students and scores of science luminaries to the Executive Mansion for White House Astronomy Night on 19 October. Watch the YouTube video to see and hear some highlights.