  Contents:
  *News:
  Topical group news, by Jim Isenberg
  April 1997 Joint APS/AAPT Meeting, GTG program, by Abhay Ashtekar
  Formation of the Gravitational-Wave International Committee, by Sam Finn
  The 1997 Xanthopoulos award, by Abhay Asthekar
  We hear that..., by Jorge Pullin
  *Research Briefs:
  LIGO project update, by David Shoemaker
  The search for frame-dragging by NS and BH's, by Sharon Morsink
  Gamma-ray bursts, recent developments, by Peter Meszaros
  Status of the Binary Black hole Grand Challenge, by Richard Matzner
  *Conference Reports:
  Quantum gravity at GR15, by Don Marolf
  GR Classical, by John Friedman
  An Experimentalist's Idiosyncratic Report on GR15, by Peter Saulson
  Bangalore gravitational wave meeting, by Sharon Morsink
  Bangalore quantum gravity meeting, by Domenico Giulini
  Cleveland cosmology-topology workshop, by Neil Cornish
  Quantum Gravity in the Southern Cone II, by Carmen Nunez
  Baltimore AMS meeting, by Kirill Krasnov
