Grants and Prizes: External

The National Academy of Sciences has recognized AAS member Jonas Zmuidzinas for seminal work on novel detection technologies and instrumentation.

The AAS is excited to announce that applications are now open for the Harlow Shapley Visiting Lectureship Program. We are seeking astronomers and host institutions to participate in 2026!

The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) has announced the recipients of its 2025 prizes for astronomy research and education.

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has collected and published statistics on the impacts of recent restrictions on federal grant funding in graduate programs.

Register by 16 May for this June's Physics and Astronomy Faculty Teaching Institute, a professional development program for faculty focused on effective and inclusive teaching practice.

Two AAS members have been awarded the prestigious National Medal of Science: Wendy Freedman and Keivan Stassun.

Nominations for the Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize are invited annually from the fields of astronomy, cosmology, mathematics, and the philosophy of science. Deadline: 15 December 2024.

Astrophysicist and AAS member Keivan Stassun (Vanderbilt University) is one of 22 writers, scientists, artists, social scientists, humanists, teachers, and entrepreneurs in the 2024 class of MacArthur Fellows.

Register by 19 September for the Physics and Astronomy Faculty Teaching Institute, a professional development program for physics and astronomy faculty focused on effective and inclusive teaching practice.

Several AAS members are among the newly elected 2023 Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS). Congratulations to all.