In this issue Nominations for RSS Awards are announced, as is the Ms, PhD, and Early Career Awards Competition, the Teaching and Curriculum RIG Paper Competition and the Community, Health & Family RIG Paper Competitions, an Update from the AD Hoc Committee on Ethics, the call for a Book Review Editor for Society and Natural Resources, and the XXVII European Society for Rural Sociology Congress. This link will take you to the entire RSS eBulletin Issue 81, November 2016.