AAS Fellows
AAS Grants
- Child/Dependent Care Grants
- Chrétien International Research Grants
- Education & Professional Development Mini-Grants
- FAMOUS Travel Grants
- International Travel Grants
- Hints on Preparing Research Proposals
- National Osterbrock Leadership Program
- Team-UP Together Scholarship
AAS Division Awards
Prize Nominations
AAS Prizes and Awards
- Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy
- Award for Public Service to Science
- Award for Public Service to the Astronomical Sciences
- Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize
- Beth Brown Memorial Award
- Chambliss Amateur Achievement Award
- Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award
- Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Awards
- Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
- Education Prize
- George Van Biesbroeck Prize
- Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
- Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation
- Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture
- Lancelot M. Berkeley - New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy
- Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy
- Priscilla and Bart Bok Awards and the Richard D. Lines Special Award
- Rodger Doxsey Travel Prize
2023 Prize & Award Winners

Ana Bonaca
For innovative advances in our understanding of the hierarchical formation of the Milky Way and constraints on the galactic potential.
Ana Bonaca
For innovative advances in our understanding of the hierarchical formation of the Milky Way and constraints on the galactic potential.
2023 Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy

Brett McGuire
For pioneering research into complex astrophysical chemistry, including foundational work on chiral and aromatic molecules in the interstellar medium.
Brett McGuire
For pioneering research into complex astrophysical chemistry, including foundational work on chiral and aromatic molecules in the interstellar medium.
2022 Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy

Daniel Scolnic
For his insightful research using supernovae as cosmological probes.
Daniel Scolnic
For his insightful research using supernovae as cosmological probes.
Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture

Emily M. Levesque
For the the upper-level undergraduate or graduate textbook, Understanding Stellar Evolution (IOP Publishing Ltd., 2017).
Emily M. Levesque
For the the upper-level undergraduate or graduate textbook, Understanding Stellar Evolution (IOP Publishing Ltd., 2017).
Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award

Frank Shu
For his seminal contributions to theoretical astrophysics, from the formation of stars and planetary systems to the structure of disk galaxies; for his sustained leadership in the global astronomical community; and for his elegant textbooks that have influenced generations of astronomers.
Frank Shu
For his seminal contributions to theoretical astrophysics, from the formation of stars and planetary systems to the structure of disk galaxies; for his sustained leadership in the global astronomical community; and for his elegant textbooks that have influenced generations of astronomers.
Henry Norris Russell Lectureship

Henny J.G.L.M. Lamers
For the the upper-level undergraduate or graduate textbook, Understanding Stellar Evolution (IOP Publishing Ltd., 2017).
Henny J.G.L.M. Lamers
For the the upper-level undergraduate or graduate textbook, Understanding Stellar Evolution (IOP Publishing Ltd., 2017).
Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award

Karen Meech
For her pioneering work expanding and pushing boundaries in the field of small-body solar-system observational science, and for her transformative contributions that have shaped the broader field of planetary science.
Karen Meech
For her pioneering work expanding and pushing boundaries in the field of small-body solar-system observational science, and for her transformative contributions that have shaped the broader field of planetary science.
Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics

Linda Shore
For the nation-wide impact of her work educating teachers as Director of the Exploratorium Teacher Institute, and for the development of novel educational programs aimed at non-astronomers as Chief Executive Officer of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Linda Shore
For the nation-wide impact of her work educating teachers as Director of the Exploratorium Teacher Institute, and for the development of novel educational programs aimed at non-astronomers as Chief Executive Officer of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Education Prize
Marta Bryan
For her leadership in observational studies of gas-giant exoplanet formation, evolution, and impact on planetary systems.
Marta Bryan
For her leadership in observational studies of gas-giant exoplanet formation, evolution, and impact on planetary systems.
Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy

Renee Ludlam
For novel explorations of the relativistic universe that have revealed fundamental properties of neutron stars.
Renee Ludlam
For novel explorations of the relativistic universe that have revealed fundamental properties of neutron stars.
Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy

Shouleh Nikzad
For her pioneering contributions pushing the boundaries of ultraviolet/visible photon-counting charge-coupled devices, her sustained infusion of related technologies across multiple fields, her diligent engineering leadership, and her consistent and attentive mentoring of early-career instrumentation researchers.
Shouleh Nikzad
For her pioneering contributions pushing the boundaries of ultraviolet/visible photon-counting charge-coupled devices, her sustained infusion of related technologies across multiple fields, her diligent engineering leadership, and her consistent and attentive mentoring of early-career instrumentation researchers.
Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation

Stephen Taylor
Stephen Taylor and the NANOGrav Collaboration
For the transformative discovery of compelling evidence for a nanohertz gravitational-wave background, identified via more than 15 years of pulsar timing observations.
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Stephen Taylor
Stephen Taylor and the NANOGrav Collaboration
For the transformative discovery of compelling evidence for a nanohertz gravitational-wave background, identified via more than 15 years of pulsar timing observations.
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Fred Kavli Plenary Lecturer

Wen-fai Fong
For her leadership of foundational work that is greatly advancing our understanding of explosive astrophysical transients and their host galaxies.
Wen-fai Fong
For her leadership of foundational work that is greatly advancing our understanding of explosive astrophysical transients and their host galaxies.