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Editor Ellen Mayou
Designer Victoria Clary
Photographer Hillsman S. Jackson
Contributors Lisa Castello, Meredith Dickenson, Kathy Tibbetts, Susan White
Associate Vice President for Public Affairs Patricia Ann LaSalle

Office of Research and Graduate Studies

Contributors Barbara Phillips, Larry Smith

Corporate Officers of the University

R. Gerald Turner President
Ross C Murfin Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Thomas E. Barry Vice President for Executive Affairs
S. Leon Bennett General Counsel, Vice President for Legal Affairs and Governmental Relations, and Secretary
James E. Caswell Vice President for Student Affairs
Morgan R. Olsen Vice President for Business and Finance
Jeanne P. Whitman Vice President for Development and External Affairs
Elizabeth C. Williams University Treasurer

Academic Deans

John Attanasio Dedman School of Law
U. Narayan Bhat Research and Graduate Studies
Carole Brandt Meadows School of the Arts
Robin W. Lovin Perkins School of Theology
Gillian McCombs Central University Libraries
Jasper Neel Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
Albert W. Niemi Jr. Cox School of Business
Robert A. Patterson Education and Lifelong Learning
Stephen Szygenda School of Engineering

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Edward S. Curtis page 9
Debora Hunter page 7
Hillsman S. Jackson pages 12, 13, 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26
Byrd Williams cover and page 17

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Grand Award winner/Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (District IV) 2002.