Catherine Isely of Butler Rubin co-chaired the ARIAS-U.S. 2009 Fall Conference and Annual Meeting, which was held on November 12-13, 2009 in New York City.  Mary Ellen Burns, Jennifer R. Devery, Kathryn C. Ellsworth, Ann L. Field, Alexandra D. Furth, Susan E. Grondine, Sylvia Kaminsky, and Amy B. Kelley participated as speakers at the conference.