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NRAO Call for Proposals: Semester 2016B

NRAO Call for Proposals: Semester 2016B

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) invites scientists to participate in the NRAO Semester 2016B Call for Proposals for the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), Very Large Array (VLA), and Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), High Sensitivity Array (HSA), and Global 3mm VLBI Array (GMVA). The submission deadline for Semester 2016B proposals is...

ALMA Trilateral Agreement Signing Ceremony

ALMA Trilateral Agreement Signing Ceremony

On December 15, 2015, the National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan (NINS), the European Southern Observatory (ESO), and the National Science Foundation (NSF) signed an agreement concerning the operations of ALMA. The new agreement signed in Tokyo provides the framework for the long-lasting operations of ALMA over the next 20 years. “As...

AUI has joined with more than 160 other science organizations expressing concern that barring citizens of seven nations from entering the U.S. will negatively impact the nation’s science and engineering capacity.  The letter urges that the executive order be rescinded.

AUI President’s statement condemning sexual harassment

There has been significant media attention recently to a report about a sexual harassment case by a tenured faculty member at a major university, leading to much introspection within the astronomy community and at research institutions across the country. Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI), the managing organization of the National Radio...