The 2023 Sleep Champion Award opens for nominations on January 3rd! Created in 2019, this award celebrates successful community-based sleep health services and education provided by non-profit organizations. To best highlight a holistic array of nonprofits throughout the years, AASM members are encouraged to [...]
Each year on November 11, we celebrate Veterans Day nationally to honor military veterans of the United States Armed Forces. We take this time to show respect and reflect on those who have served our country. Here at the AASM Foundation, we wholeheartedly appreciate [...]
November was a big month for the sleep community. We rewound our clocks an hour to “fall back” on Daylight Saving Time, recognized Drowsy Driving Prevention Week, celebrated Thanksgiving and connected the importance of good sleep health to both diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease. Though [...]
October was an eventful month - the application deadlines for both our 2023 Strategic Research Grants and Young Investigators Research Forum passed, we celebrated Sleep Technologists Appreciation Week as well as National Health Education Week, retired our COVID-19 Relief Fund, and more. We are [...]
The AASM Foundation believes in the importance of growing the number of clinical sleep scientists across several diverse sleep research areas. This fall, the AASM Foundation and Research Career Development Committee hosted the second webinar of the Sleep Research Career Pathways: A Panel Discussion [...]
The Sleep Research Program for Advancing Careers (SOAR) is a program that pairs fellows with seasoned mentors with a goal to launch the research careers of sleep and circadian investigators. By the end of the program, early career investigators will have the skills [...]
The COVID-19 Relief Funding for AASM Foundation Grant Recipients was established in May 2020 to support grant recipients with currently active AASM Foundation projects to offset some of the additional expenses that may have been, or would be, incurred due to the unanticipated effects [...]
National Hispanic Heritage Month, held from September 15 to October 15, celebrates the histories, cultures, and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America. Hispanics/Latinx are a growing minority population in the US, that [...]
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) Foundation announced today that it has awarded four $10,000 scholarships to U.S. medical students through the American Medical Association Foundation (AMAF) Physicians of Tomorrow program. The AASM Foundation and AMAF scholarship is awarded to academically excellent medical [...]
Each year when summer comes to an end, the back-to-school season seems to creep up on students, parents, and teachers without warning. While students scramble to figure out schedules, learn class material, and plan time to do homework, their sleep can oftentimes be overlooked. [...]
