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This column from the AAS Historical Astronomy Division by guest author Virginia Trimble reflects on one hundred years of the International Astronomical Union.

A new report shows more African Americans graduating from college in many engineering and physical sciences fields but not progressing at the same rate as the general population.

The International Astronomical Union's PhD Prize is awarded by each of its nine Divisions and recognizes outstanding scientific achievement worldwide. Application deadline: 15 December 2019.

Here's some good news from AAS Publishing: The impact factors of three of our peer-reviewed journals have increased over the last year, two of them by a lot.

The Society's annual report for calendar year 2018 is now available as a PDF. It includes a financial report and summarizes membership, meetings, and other activities.

Set your sights on 2020: expanded iPoster opportunities, a new exoplanet and solar system journal, subscriptions to Sky & Telescope, and more for members.

Here is a look at events on the schedule for September.

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

A budget deal for fiscal years 2020 and 2021 was signed into law on 2 August, and the NASA operating plan for 2019 was made public. This is an overview of how things line up.

The $3 million prize will be shared equally by the 347 co-authors of last April's six ApJ Letters papers presenting and analyzing the first image of a galaxy's central black hole.

The "Super Bowl of Astronomy" touches down in Hawai‘i 4-8 January 2020 when the AAS and its Historical Astronomy and High Energy Astrophysics Divisions gather for AAS 235 in Honolulu.

Volume 57 of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics is now available. AAS members get a 30% discount as a benefit of membership in the Society.

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

The Infrared Telescope Facility is a 3-meter telescope optimized for infrared observations and located at the summit of Maunakea, Hawaii. Observing proposals for the 2020A semester are due by Tuesday, 1 October.

The CatWISE Preliminary catalog consists of 900,849,014 sources measured in data collected from 2010 to 2016. The catalog is now available in the WISE/NEOWISE Enhanced & Contributed Products area of the NASA Infrared...