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Balloting for the next election of AAS Officers and Councilors opens 14 December 2017 and closes at the end of January 2018. Here is the slate of candidates.

A committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is requesting community input for an astrobiology science strategy for the search for life in the solar system and extrasolar planetary systems...

Thanks to new partnerships with Authorea and Overleaf, you can now submit papers directly from these collaborative authoring tools to the Astronomical Journal and the Astrophysical Journal family.

The National Science Foundation announces the selection of a plan to collaborate with interested parties to maintain science-focused operations at Arecibo Observatory with reduced agency funding.

Organized and operated by volunteer teams of graduate students, ComSciCon has become a premier professional development experience for young scientists.

Ten winners and five honorable mentions will receive support to present their dissertation talks at the 231st AAS meeting in Washington, DC, in January.

If you haven't renewed your AAS membership for 2018, watch your mail for a dark blue envelope containing your second renewal notice. Renew soon to secure your member benefits for another year!

AAS Nova editor Susanna Kohler introduces Research Notes of the AAS, your new home for brief science communications of special interest to the astronomical community.

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

Join an online hangout on Thursday, 9 November, at 3:00 pm ET, to hear about exoplanet Kepler-13Ab and its unusual atmosphere.

Third parties are sending emails to members of the astronomy community offering to sell them contact lists of our conference attendees. We are investigating the entities and individuals involved.

This Policy Alert shares time-sensitive information on the potential consequences of the current federal tax reform proposal on higher education, with particular implications for graduate students.

NASA is currently accepting abstracts for a workshop to engage the scientific community in determining how the deep space gateway concept can be used to advance scientific discovery. Submission deadline: 15 December.

We take a look at last week's Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation public hearing, during which the potential next administrator of NASA, Rep. James Bridenstine (R-OK), responded to questions.

Each month in this series from the Historical Astronomy Division, an important event in the history of astronomy will be highlighted. This month, we look at the 100-inch Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory.