Dear IEEE NPSS Members,

As summer draws to a close, I want to share a few highlights from a productive season for our society and look ahead to a busy fall.

Our flagship educational program had another outstanding year. The 2026 NPSS Nuclear Engineering Summer School (NESS), held virtually from June 1 through July 16, welcomed more than 1,600 registrants from over 100 countries, spanning topics from radiation detection and Monte Carlo methods to medical imaging and fusion. My thanks go to our lecturers and organizers, whose efforts made this global classroom possible. We distributed (through IEEE) over 700 certificates of completion within this program. We also continue to grow our student community, and I am delighted to welcome our newest student chapter at Universidad de la Costa (CUC) in Barranquilla, Colombia.

NPSS remains an active and valued presence within the broader IEEE community. In June, our team took part in the IEEE Technical Activities Board meeting series in Nashville, Tennessee, where discussions focused on the new IEEE budget model, the One IEEE and One TAB initiatives, and educational funding. I am also pleased to report that NPSS has joined the IEEE Council on Superconductivity, opening new opportunities for collaboration with other technical communities across IEEE. Finally, in August, several of us will represent NPSS at the IEEE Societies and Councils Congress in Glasgow, Scotland.

There is a great deal to look forward to this fall. Following successful conferences this summer at the International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) in Nevada and the Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) in Puerto Rico, our calendar continues with the Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma and Terahertz Science (APCOPTS) in Xi’an, China this September, and culminates in our flagship Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference, and Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detector Conference (NSS/MIC/RTSD) in Granada, Spain this November. Please join us.

As always, I encourage you to stay involved: attend an NPSS conference or event, submit your work to our journals, and volunteer for technical and outreach activities. I also hope you will nominate a deserving colleague for one of our NPSS awards. Many nominations are due by January 31, and details are available at ieee-npss.org/awards/npss-awards/. Whether you are a longtime member or just starting your career, I hope you will join us. Together we can help shape the future of the nuclear and plasma sciences.

With gratitude for your ongoing support and enthusiasm,

Sara Pozzi, NPSS President, can be reached at [email protected]