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The AAAS was founded on the 20th of September 1848, at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It grew out of a reformation of the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, with 78 founding members.
William Charles Redfield was chosen as the first president of the AAAS because he had proposed the most comprehensive plans for organizing the new society.
Science is a weekly interdisciplinary scientific journal and the flagship publication of the AAAS. The journal became the society's official publication in 1900, and the AAAS became its sole owner in 1946.
Astronomer Maria Mitchell and entomologist Margaretta Morris were the first female members of the AAAS, admitted in 1850. Science educator Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps was elected in 1859.
The AAAS Congressional Fellowship program, established in 1973 with a US$10,000 donation from William T. Golden, places Ph.D. scientists and engineers in federal government roles for one or two years. It offers 130 executive branch positions, 5 legislative branch positions, and 1 judicial branch position.
EurekAlert! is an editorially independent nonprofit news release service launched by the AAAS in 1996, covering science, medicine, and technology. By early 2018, more than 14,000 reporters from over 90 countries had registered for access, and the service distributes news in seven languages including Chinese, added in 2007.