I hope everyone has seen the announcements for the 1st <https://msaweb.org/>Annual <https://msaweb.org/> MSA Meeting, to be held in Tucson in February 2026 <https://msaweb.org/>. The abstract deadline is soon: midnight US Eastern this Friday, 31 October! Given the looming deadline for abstract submission, I want to bring an exciting aspect of this meeting to your attention: *MSA and sponsors are committing funds to support student participation in the meeting. * When students (graduate, undergraduate) submit their abstracts, they should indicate that they are students. If the abstract is accepted, the student will be asked to provide a basic budget for expenses (travel, lodging, meals). MSA will provide funds to as many eligible students as possible. In some cases, the funds will cover all expenses, including the registration fee. MSA welcomes and encourages donations to the student travel support fund. If you are interested in donating, please contact Ann Benbow at abenbow@minsocam.org. Eventually, we hope to have a stable and sustainable source of funding for student participation in future meetings. For this first meeting, however, we are focusing on helping as many students as possible, so funds donated now will be used directly for this purpose. Thank you, and I hope to see many of you in Tucson in February! Donna Whitney