Left to right, Tuyet-Minh Tran, Emily Lin, Ashley Ewing, Paul Qualey and J. Stillman Hanson try out homemade ink and clay tablets, while Myles McPartland checks out a manual typewriter. (Photo by Patricia Sullivan)

New Vice President for Research Melur K. “Ram” Ramasubramanian has spent much of his career promoting multidisciplinary research. (Photo by Dan Addison, University Communications)