Fall 2013
Recycling and Toxic Waste: Perfect Chemistry
October 1, 2013 | By France Griggs SloatAt first glance, it looks like a moonshine still. There’s a big container with a long pipe sticking out the top and a tube jutting out the side and into a bottle. When the liquid inside is heated, the vapors … Read More
Cigar Czar
October 1, 2013 | By Jen SaltsmanThey say where there’s smoke there’s fire. But for Kevin McKenna, it means more than that. For him, where there’s smoke, there’s business.
The 2005 communications grad manages the cigar humidor at The Party Source in Bellevue, Ky., so … Read More
Food for Thought: A Philosophy of Good Eating
October 1, 2013 | By Michael ShawJason Perkins wheels his office into a parking spot just outside the Pendleton Art Center in Cincinnati’s Over-The-Rhine neighborhood. The office is hard to miss—a bulky 1991 Grumman/Chevy P-30 step van that began its life as a bookmobile in Madison … Read More
Leading the Way: Merging Health Care
October 1, 2013 | By Michael ShawSusan Gilster’s high school counselor meant well when he told her, “You can be three things—a teacher, a nurse or a secretary.” It was typical advice in the early 1970s for a young woman in a small, Midwestern town trying … Read More
Taking on the World: Duathlon Dude
October 1, 2013 | By France Griggs SloatBuzzbuzzbuzz. Bruce Miller’s alarm sounds. His hand fumbles around until he finds it and shuts it off. It’s 4:30 a.m. At a time when most people simply roll over, Miller rolls out of bed and begins gathering his gear. … Read More
A Year of Faith
October 1, 2013 | Xavier UniversityIt’s been a busy year for Xavier on the faith front.
In response to Pope Benedict XVI’s declaration of the Year of Faith—called to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the 50th … Read More
Modern Music
October 1, 2013 | Xavier UniversityMusic students returning to campus this fall found their music classroom had undergone a complete technological makeover.
Now when they sit down at one of 14 brand new Roland electric pianos and turn it on, they also turn on … Read More
