David J. McComas Princeton Vice President for PPPL
Steven C. Cowley Laboratory Director
Craig R. Ferguson Deputy Director for Operations
Jonathan E. Menard Deputy Director for Research
Michael C. Zarnstorff Laboratory Chief Scientist
Andrew P. Zwicker Head, Office of Communications and Public Outreach
Cover image: Elle Starkman
Larry Bernard Communications Director
John Greenwald Editor and Writer
Jeanne Jackson DeVoe Contributor
Raphael Rosen Contributor
Elle Starkman Photographer
Chris Cane Digital Strategy and Visual Communication
Additional photo and image credits for the following sections:
New Paths to Fusion Energy
Greg Cunningham/General Atomics
Roger Raman/University of Washington
Advancing Fusion Theory
Denise Applewhite/Princeton Office of Communications
Eliot Feibush/PPPL, Julian Kates-Harbeck/Harvard University
Nick Rivera/Columbia University
NSTX-U Experiment
Advancing Plasma Science
Michael Owen, John Blondin/North Carolina State University
NASA
Awards and Recognitions
Nick Sakowski/Mercer County Technical Schools
Sarah Jane White
Shaina George
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 2
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