Editor-in-Chief
Ryan Underwood, BA’96
Executive Editor
Seth Robertson
Art Director
Donna DeVore Pritchett
Managing Editor
Phillip B. Tucker
Associate Editor
Bonnie Arant Ertelt, BS’81
Assistant Designer
Laura Beth Snipes
Copy Editor
Donna B. Smith
Photographers
Daniel Dubois, Steve Green, Joe Howell, Anne Rayner, John Russell, Susan Urmy
Associate Vice Chancellor, University Relations
Melanie Moran
Contributors
Matt Anderson, Matt Batcheldor, Michael Blanding, Jalen Blue, Joan Brasher, Maria Browning, Pam Coyle, Brenda Ellis, Zac Ellis, Liz Entman, Andrew Faught, Kara Furlong, Frye Gaillard, Heidi Hall, Elizabeth Cook Jenkins, Lily Kane, Mitch Light, Dan Lovinger, Andrew Maraniss, Ann Marie Deer Owens, Glenn Peoples, Jan Read, Thomas Alan Schwartz, Rob Simbeck, Nicole Smith, Cal Turner Jr., Nancy Wise, Amy Wolf, Sarah Wolf and Nicholas S. Zeppos
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