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The American Association for the Advancement of Science cites Stassun for personally mentoring dozens of underrepresented minority students and for building innovative mentoring models.

The Spitzer Cycle-14 call for proposals deadline has been extended to Friday, 23 March 2018.

Learn about the transition to LIGO-Virgo open, public alerts (OPAs) for multimessenger observations by joining an online forum and/or by attending a town hall in Boston or Amsterdam. RSVP requested!

Please help a high-school student in Illinois by taking his survey to investigate people's interests in pursuing careers in astronomy. Deadline: Friday, 2 March.

In this month's column from the AAS Historical Astronomy Division, we focus on early African American astronomer Benjamin Banneker.

The AAS Board of Trustees has named Virginia Trimble a patron of the Society, and the International Astronomical Union has given the name Trimble to asteroid number 9271.

A committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is requesting community input to carry out a study on the science strategy for the field of extrasolar planets.

President-Elect Megan Donahue and Executive Officer Kevin Marvel are gravely concerned about the administration’s abrupt cancellation of the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope.

Sarbani Basu is receiving SPD's highest honor, the George Ellery Hale Prize, and Nicholeen Viall is receiving SPD's early-career award, the Karen Harvey Prize. Congrats to both!

If you haven't renewed by Friday, 2 March, your AAS membership will be suspended and your member benefits cut off. Renewals after that date will incur a $10 late fee.

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

...but two more years without a sequester as Congress votes to #RaisetheCaps.

The National Science Foundation does not and will not tolerate sexual misconduct and has announced new steps to help eliminate such transgressions from science and engineering.

The Astronomical Society of the Pacific recognizes individual achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach each year. Nominations for 2018 are due on 1 March.

Take a mind-blowing voyage to the most powerful and mysterious objects in the universe and then share the science of black holes with your students using educational resources from PBS and WGBH.