Announcements

The Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy (SARA) Consortium is seeking to engage at least one new institutional member in 2024.

The 32nd International Astronomical Union (IAU) General Assembly will be held on 6–15 August 2024 in South Africa. Abstract submissions and grant applications are due 1 March.

The 2024 AAS Election closed on 1 February and the results are in!

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

The AAS High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) has selected the winners of its 2024 Mid-Career, Early Career, Distinguished Career, and Innovation Prizes, as well as three finalists for the Dissertation Prize.

Are you — or do you know — a Black undergraduate pursuing a degree in astronomy or physics? Apply for the TEAM-UP Together Scholarship Program by 8 March 2024.

Most AAS members receive the magazine Physics Today, published by the American Institute of Physics, as a membership benefit. The February 2024 issue is now en route to subscribers' mailboxes and can be accessed online.

Here the Code of Ethics Committee explains why those women-only ads on the AAS Job Register are consistent with the AAS Code of Ethics objective of “promoting equality of opportunity” and are ethical.

In this column from the AAS Historical Astronomy Division, Michael E. Marotta writes about Gerard Kuiper’s discovery of Uranus’s moon, Miranda.

In this Education Committee Blog post, Rae Stewart and Alex Lange describe the DC-area astrophysics graduate student conference, which was revived in August and featured student-led mentoring and scientific activities.

The AAS is pleased to announce the winners of the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Awards from the 243rd AAS meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, in January 2024. Congratulations, all!

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

The AAS High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) is awarding its 2024 Bruno Rossi Prize to Martin Weisskopf, Paolo Soffitta, and the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) team.

Want to help give visibility to deserving scientists, educators, and amateur astronomers? Volunteer now to serve on one of this year's prize and award committees for the AAS.

In this column from the AAS Historical Astronomy Division, Michael E. Marotta writes about the discovery of white dwarf stars.