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James W. R. Schroeder (Wheaton College) is being honored by the AAS Laboratory Astrophysics Division for experimental confirmation of the acceleration of auroral electrons by Alfvén waves in the laboratory.

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.

Congress passed the final appropriations bill on 23 December 2022, and the president signed it into law on 29 December 2022. Here are some details on the funding for NSF and NASA. 

TEAM-UP Together is pleased to announce its first cohort of scholars, 31 African American students who will each receive $10,000 for the 2022-23 academic year.

The Committee for Sexual-Orientation and Gender Minorities in Astronomy (SGMA) is looking for feedback on how to make future AAS meetings inclusive to the LGBTQA+ community. Please take the survey by 31 January 2023.

In this column from the AAS Historical Astronomy Division, Mike Marotta writes about Agnes Mary Clerke’s Problems in Astrophysics.

Get to know the 12 candidates running for five leadership positions within the Society. Balloting for the 2023 AAS Election will begin on Friday, 16 December.

Guest author Daniel Peluso discusses how a new digital smart telescope technology by Unistellar combined with inquiry-based Modeling Instruction astronomy pedagogy may help to improve science education.

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 Partnerships in Astronomy & Astrophysics Research and Education (PAARE) program is hosting an information session on 14 December to discuss the program and answer questions from potential partnership proposers.

Members of the astronomy community are invited to attend this four-day workshop. The goal is to identify and prioritize strategies for implementing recommendations from the Astro2020 decadal survey around data management...

At its recent meeting, the National Society of Black Physicists chose the winners of the AAS-sponsored Beth Brown Memorial Awards for oral and poster presentations.

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