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Do you want to learn how to teach a student-centered, inquiry-based curriculum that improves the scientific reasoning skills of your students? Read on!

The Inclusive Graduate Education Network is offering online workshops that focus on solutions to equity challenges within graduate admissions for Fall 2021 – Spring 2022.

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.

A public meeting to discuss NASA's recent request for information, "Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities in NASA Programs, Contracts, and Grants," will take place at 1 pm ET on Tuesday, 13 July...

Are you an astronomy graduate student who’s interested in science communication? Then the AAS Media Fellowship might be for you! Application deadline: 23 July 2021.

Most AAS members receive the magazine Physics Today as a membership benefit. The July issue is now en route to subscribers' mailboxes and can be accessed online.

Join SEA Change for a five-part learning series, Transforming Institutions: Systemic Change for DEI in STEMM, designed and facilitated by the Accelerating Systemic Change Network. The series begins on 21 July.

The Simons Foundation's Center for Computational Astrophysics provides summer research opportunities to undergraduate members of the National Society of Black Physicists.

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 column from the AAS Historical Astronomy Division, Joseph S. Tenn writes about the first PhD degrees awarded in the United States, including the first woman who earned an astronomy-related PhD.

Guest author Britt Lundgren writes about the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's Education and Public Outreach activities that incorporate coding and data visualization into introductory and advanced astronomy labs.

The Senate passed the US Innovation and Competitiveness Act on 8 June. Here we provide some detail about what that means for the National Science Foundation and other federal agencies supporting the astronomical sciences...

We review recent efforts by the AAS Education Committee and astronomy education researchers to determine what we are teaching in our astronomy majors courses and how, with suggestions for future work.

The latest recipient of the AAS Historical Astronomy Division's Doggett Prize has made many contributions to the history of astronomy from antiquity to the early modern period.

A special issue of the Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society features 522 white papers offering input from the scientific community to inform the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032.