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In this issue, our “University Research Highlights” section presents the research of Prof. Ivan Deutsch and his group at the University of New Mexico and Prof. Poul Jessen and his group at the University of Mexico. Their article is entitled “Quantum Information Processing in Optical Lattices: Cold Atomic Qubits in a Virtual Crystal of Light”. For more information, see Prof. Deutsch’s webpage at http://panda30.phys.unm.edu/Deutsch/ Homepage.html.

This issue also presents a profile of Prof. I. C. Khoo, who is a newly-elected member of the IEEE-LEOS Board of Governors and is Vice-President of Technical Affairs. Prof. Khoo is Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, where he performs research on the development of nonlinear optical fibers and fiber arrays for optical switching and sensor protection application, and electro-optical and nonlinear phenomena and devices based on liquid crystalline materials. Prof. Khoo wrote the “Profile” that is included in this issue. His website is: http://www.ee.psu.edu/faculty/khoo/khoo1.htm.

The next meeting of the LEOS Board of Governors will be at CLEO/QELS 2002 on May 19-24, 2002 in Long Beach. The third and last meeting in 2002 will be at the LEOS Annual Meeting to be held on Nov. 11-14 in Glasgow, Scotland. The submission deadlines for OFC2002 and CLEO/QELS2002 have passed; however, the submission deadline for the IEEE-LEOS Annual Meeting is June 26, 2002. For more details, see the LEOS Conference web page at the URL: http://www.i-leos.org/info/calendar2002.html