  Contents:
  * Community news:
  GGR activities, by Richard Price
  We hear that..., by Jorge Pullin
  Institute of Physics Gravitational Physics Group, by Elizabeth Winstanley
  Center for gravitational wave astronomy, by Mario Diaz
  * Research briefs:
  LIGO's first preliminary science run, by Gary Sanders
  Quantization of area: the plot thickens, by John Baez
  Convergence of G measurements -Mysteries remain, by Riley Newman
  * Conference reports:
  Brane world gravity, by Elizabeth Winstanley
  Massive black holes focus session, by Steinn Sigurdsson
  GWDAW 2002, by Peter Saulson
  Source simulation focus session, by Pablo Laguna
  RRI workshop on loop quantum gravity, by Fernando Barbero
  Lazarus/Kudu Meeting, by Warren G. Anderson
