First, I want to thank the retiring members of the RISC for their work on the committee. They are: Steve Meikle, Carel van Eijk, John Valentine, Richard Freifelder. Craig Woody remains on the committee as chair elect. The results of the election are in and the new members are: Roger Fulton, Warnick Kernan, Raulf Polichar, Anatoly Rosenfeld, and Mike Unterweger. Join me in offering congratulations to the new members. The members serve for 3 years.
David Wehe has accepted the position of Chairman of the RISC awards committee. The RISC makes two awards: the Outstanding Achievement Award in the odd years and the Early Career Award in the even years. The 2003 award will be the Outstanding Achievement Award. You may contact David at dkw@umich.edu for more information or to submit nominations. The nomination form is at ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/awards.htm.
The 2002 NSS-MIC was held in Norfolk. Joel Karp, General Chairman, deserves our thanks and congratulations for his work on this successful meeting. Please see Joel's report below.
The 2003 NSS-MIC will be held from Oct 19 to Oct 26 at the Doubletree Hotels Portland - Columbia River and Jantzen Island in Portland, OR. In addition to the NSS and MIC meetings, the Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Workshop and the Symposium on Nuclear Power Systems will be held at the same time and place. The NSS-MIC General Chair is Ralph James; the RTSD General Co-Chairs are Ralph James and Paul Siffert; the SNPS Program Chair is Jay Forster.

Abstract Deadlines

• NSS May 16, 2003
• MIC May 16, 2003
• SNPS June 1, 2003
• RTSD June 27, 2003

You need to be submitting abstracts soon. It’s never too early to start writing.
For more information on the meeting times, hotels and any other details, see the website at www.nss-mic.org.
An important part of the meeting are the short courses offered before and after the main sessions. As Short Course Chairman, Gary Alley has done an outstanding job over the many years in organizing these very useful sessions. As he steps down, Gary deserves our heartfelt thanks for his many hours of work to make these as successful as possible. The new Short Course Chairman is Dr. Stephen Derenzo. If you have any suggestions for short courses, send them to sderenzo@lbl.gov. When the schedule is complete, it will be posted on the website.
The General Chairs, dates and places for the future NSS-MIC meetings are:

• 2004 Oct 16 to 23, Rome, Italy
  General Chair: Alberto Del Guerra
• 2005 Oct 22 to 29, San Juan, PR
  General Chair: Tom Lewellen
• 2006 Oct 28 to Nov 4, San Diego, CA
  General Chair: Graham Smith

Call for Volunteers
Let me end with an invitation to all of you with interests in radiation instrumentation to become involved in IEEE/NPSS activities. One of the ways open is to step forward as a candidate for election to the Radiation Instrumentation Steering Committee (RISC). This committee includes 15 elected members serving 3-year terms that are chosen in an annual ballot by those members of our society who are identified as part of the Radiation Instrumentation Technical Committee (RITC). You are automatically a member of RITC if you are a member in good standing of both IEEE and NPSS and subscribe to the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. RISC has the task of acting on behalf of the full RITC membership in organizational matters, the most important of which is planning for future Nuclear Science Symposia (NSS). Meetings of RISC are scheduled annually at the time of the NSS, with most other business conducted via email.If you meet the criteria for RITC membership and have an interest in becoming a candidate for election to RISC, please let me know.
Ron Keyser, the Chair of the RISC, can be reached at ORTEC, 801 South Illinois Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN 37831; Phone: +1 865 483-2146; Fax: +1 865 481-2438; E-mail: RonKeyser@ieee.org