From cover art by Richard and Edna Salomon Assistant Professor Jia Li, a state of the department from our new chair Vesna Mitrović, the incredible achievements of our outstanding faculty and students, a student affairs update by Ph.D. Program Director James Valles and Graduate Program Director Jay Tang,  to the stunning back cover photography of Robert Horton, manager of the astronomy labs and Ladd Observatory, Imagine is uniquely physics from cover to cover!