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The Cosmic Origins Program Analysis Group is soliciting members of the astronomy community to study the future of multi-wavelength astronomy from space. Respond by 10 August 2018 if interested.

In this column from the AAS Historical Astronomy Division, we focus on Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.

The International Astronomical Union has joined a study on how to reduce the gap between men and women in the natural sciences and related disciplines. Please take their survey by 31 October.

The AAS and the American Geophysical Union have received a grant from The Kavli Foundation to advance exoplanet science through special sessions at both societies’ meetings and other activities.

Join an online hangout on Thursday, 12 July, at 3:00 pm ET to learn about to learn about how new X-ray observations of Eta Carinae, an exploding star system, show cosmic rays coming from colliding gas in the system.

The National Optical Astronomy Observatory is issuing a call for new survey proposals starting in the 2019A and B semesters. Investigators must submit letters of intent by 15 August 2018.

Proposals are invited from US-based AAS members for small grants to provide education-related mentoring and professional-development experiences for fellow members. Deadline: Sunday, 5 August.

Research!America, in partnership with the AAS, is issuing a call for funding proposals from student- and postdoc-led science-policy groups in the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections.

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

This post is the second in a three-part series about the upcoming changes to the Society's membership classes and features the revisions to student memberships.

Slidecasts of 11 invited talks and prize lectures presented at the 2018 summer AAS meeting in Denver, Colorado, are now online for members. Sign in to view them at your leisure.

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.

JWST will be the most ambitious and capable space telescope humanity has ever built. It will transform scientific understanding of our place in the universe.

Join an online hangout on Thursday, 28 June, at 3:00 pm ET to learn about a recent effort to weigh the Milky Way galaxy using the motions of its satellite galaxies.

In this monthly feature of the AAS Policy Blog, we share a calendar of upcoming events in science and space policy that may be of interest to our members.