Credits
Credits
Kevin Pitts, Dean
Assistant & Associate Deans
Trish Hammer, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Graduate Studies
John Morris, Associate Dean for Research
Michel Pleimling, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs
Victoria Corbin, Assistant Dean for Outreach and Student Engagement
Laura Freeman, Assistant Dean for Research in the Greater Washington, D.C., area
William Walton, Assistant Dean for Finance
Estrella Johnson, Assistant Dean for Inclusion and Diversity
Roslyn Garrison, Division Director of Human Resources
Advancement
Michael Walsh, Assistant Dean of Advancement
Kristy Morrill, Director of Alumni Relations
Steven Mackay, Director of Communications
Melissa McKeown, Communications Manager, Academy of Data Science
Jenny Orzolek, Senior Director of Major Gifts
Lon Wagner, Senior Director of Communications and Marketing
Teresa DeCarmen, Assistant Director, Design and Digital Strategy
College Leaders
Robert Cohen, Biological Sciences
Roseanne Foti, Psychology
Michael A. Fox, School of Neuroscience
Peter Haskell, Mathematics, Interim
W. Steve Holbrook, Geosciences
Amanda Morris, Chemistry
Mark Pitt, Physics
Eric Smith, Statistics, Interim
Sudipta Sarangi, Economics
Robert Weiss, Academy of Integrated Science
Tom Woteki, Academy of Data Science
Editorial staff
EDITOR: Steven Mackay
WRITERS: Jess Hoopengardner, Suzanne Irby, Kelly Izlar, Steven Mackay, Melissa McKeown, Lon Wagner, Melody Warnick, Savannah Webb
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Taylor Arnold, Luke Hayes, Amanda Ljuba, Steven Mackay, Melissa Vergara Palmer, Natalee Waters
ART DIRECTION + DESIGN: Journey Group
ILLUSTRATIONS: MUTI
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