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As the centerpiece of our Summer 2019 Campaign, we feature Society funds that support and recognize people at the outset of their careers as researchers and as advocates for the astronomical sciences.

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

AAS member Edward C. Stone (Caltech), Project Scientist of NASA's ongoing Voyager mission, will receive the $1.2 million Shaw Prize in Astronomy at a ceremony in Hong Kong in September.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have announced the members of the steering committee for the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, aka Astro2020.

AAS members on the West Coast, near the nation's capital, and elsewhere have opportunities to see the new documentary Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future this summer.

The 2019 Gruber Cosmology Prize recognizes Kaiser and Silk for their seminal contributions to the understanding of cosmological structure formation and the creation of new probes of dark matter.

The AAS journals will soon start categorizing articles using concepts from the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT), replacing the venerable subject keywords system.

This column from the AAS Historical Astronomy Division focuses on the May 1919 eclipse expeditions that confirmed a key prediction of general relativity and made Einstein famous.

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 national science academies of the G7 countries jointly called for strategies to maintain trust in science and to maximize the benefits of citizen science in the Internet era.

What does it mean for a citizen to be "literate" in astronomy? The International Astronomical Union and collaborators have drafted an answer and are inviting the community to help refine it.

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 AAS Board of Trustees urges every physics and astronomy department to provide its majors and potential majors with opportunities to engage in meaningful and appropriate research experiences.

Making plans for our summer meeting in St. Louis? Don't forget to add the Members' Meeting for an update on the state of your Society, an appreciation of volunteer leaders, and other important business.

Among the 100 distinguished researchers elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019 are three members of the AAS: Marc Kamionkowski, Mark Reid, and Uros Seljak.