Grants and Prizes: External

British astrophysicist and honorary AAS member Jocelyn Bell Burnell is awarded a $3M Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for her discovery of pulsars and inspiring scientific leadership.

Rick is being honored with NASA’s Exceptional Public Achievement Medal “for exceptional service to the nation in [his] tireless efforts for the public’s safe solar viewing of the 2017 total solar eclipse.”

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.

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the 2018 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics to Ewine van Dishoeck of Leiden University and the International Astronomical Union.

The International Astronomical Union's PhD Prize recognizes outstanding scientific achievement in astronomy by recipients of the doctorate around the world. Winners for 2017 have just been named.

The William Herschel Society and Royal Astronomical Society have established a new award to celebrate Caroline’s memory by supporting promising female astronomers early in their careers.

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory cites Murray for her doctoral thesis featuring extraordinarily detailed observations of the thermodynamic state of neutral gas in the interstellar medium.

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 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.

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.