Regular Member Benefits (Researchers & Educators)

Regular Membership - $130 USD (calendar year)

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Join AAA today! Regular Membership is open to persons engaged in the teaching or investigation of anatomical or cognate related sciences, with an advanced degree or equivalent experience. Benefits include:
 

• Free Journal Subscription - more than 100 years of backfiles!
  Choose between The Anatomical Record and Developmental Dynamics, and you will also receive access to over 100 years of AAA's journals' backfiles and free electronic access to AAA's newest journal, Anatomical Sciences Education. Purchased separately this journal package would cost more than $250.
• Teaching & Training Tools and Professional Development Opportunities
• Discount Meetings Rates
  Save $150 on registration for AAA's scientific and education meeting at Experimental Biology. Registration also includes access to all other sponsoring societies' meetings.
• Awards Eligibility
  Be nominated as a fellow of the American Association of Anatomists, for the Henry Gray/Elsevier Distinguished Educator Award, the Henry Gray/Lippincott Wilkins & Williams Scientific Achievement Award and the AAA/Wiley A.J. Ladman Exemplary Service Award. Compete for the following:
• $3000 Education Outreach Grant
• $3000 Research Meeting Outreach Grant
• $5000 Educational Research Scholarship
• $500 Young Faculty Participation Award
• $500 Young Anatomist Publication Award
• News and Updates
  Receive AAA's quarterly print newsletter plus e-mail updates concerning relevant funding opportunities, legislation, research and events via E-Stratum, AAA's electronic member memo.  You can also subscribe to AAA's Education and Public Policy listservs.
• Leadership Opportunities
  Hold elective office, serve on AAA and FASEB committees, Boards, and task forces, including the Annual Meeting Program Committee, Educational Affairs Committee, Professional Development Committee, Anatomical Terminology Committee and various awards selection committees, among others. Vote in AAA elections and at AAA's business meetings.
• Networking
  Connect with colleagues at the Annual Meeting/EB.  Be listed in and access the expanded online AAA member directory—searchable by name, location, institution, and areas of interest—as well as FASEB's online directory.
• Additional FASEB Benefits
  Take advantage of FASEB's Career Resources Center - a matching service for biomedical scientists and technicians at all career levels.

Just beginning your career and already a student or post member of AAA?

• Early Career Membership - $90 USD (calendar year)
  Members who joined as Students or Postdocs are eligible for a reduced Early Career membership rate of $90 a year for either seven years or until they reach the position of Associate Professor. Early Career members are eligible for all Regular member benefits.

Getting ready to enjoy retirement? - Apply for Emeritus Membership Today!

• Emeritus Membership
  Members who have paid Regular membership dues for the last ten (10) years and have formally retired from academia and the anatomical sciences field are eligible for Emeritus status. You need only pay for the cost of your journal subscription every calendar year if you wish to continue to receive your journal. All other Regular member benefits are included in the complimentary Emeritus membership. Please click here to complete the form requesting Emeritus status now.

• HAPS Affiliate Electronic Membership - $30 USD (calendar year)
  A discounted membership is available for members of the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS). Electronic-only HAPS affiliate membership with AAA is open to all current HAPS members, and includes access to the website, educational resources and electronic communications. HAPS affiliate membership benefits do not include access to The Anatomical Record or Developmental Dynamics publications, awards eligibility, election ballots or committee appointment but does include electronic access to Anatomical Sciences Education, our education-focused journal.