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Beetle Mania: The Hunt for a Different Kind of Longhorn
April 15, 2015 | By Sean McMahonLike a lot of entomologists, assistant biology professor Ann Ray has been bugged by a dearth of information about the valley elderberry longhorn beetle. So she joined a group of other bug-crazy biologists to find a better way to locate … Read More
My Momma’s Kitchen: Cake in a Jar
April 15, 2015 | By Sean McMahonIf home is where the heart is, the kitchen is the beating center at least that’s what it’s like at the Spencers’ house in Cincinnati. Read More
MyHusbandsTumor.Com: Love Goes Viral
April 15, 2015 | By Julie Irwin ZimmermanWhen her husband, Aaron, was diagnosed with a brain tumor, Nora McInerny Purmort, a 2005 Xavier graduate, started recording their story on a blog. She later used it to update friends and family.Read More
Improving Life in Togo: Mayo’s Clinic
April 15, 2015 | By Mike RutledgeRick Mayo keeps a copy of the photo that made him roll up his sleeves and help his church deliver water to a dozen African villages.Read More
One Smile at a Time: Visionary Dentist
April 15, 2015 | By Mike RutledgeWhen Dr. Edward Schaaf was asked to be the first volunteer dentist at the Free People’s Clinic in Englewood, a high-crime, poverty-plagued Chicago neighborhood, he figured he’d give it one night a month.Read More
Natalia’s Soup
April 15, 2015 | By Julie Irwin ZimmermanChemotherapy made Natalia Marsh-Welton feel cold, so when the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted the girl a wish, her goal was warmth. Not her own, though. Natalia wanted to make homeless people feel warm by giving them soup. And blankets.
West Nile Survivor: Walking Tall
April 15, 2015 | By Mike RutledgeIn August 2012, two months after returning from a trip to South America with his class of Executive MBA students, Jeffrey Daniel was at the halfway mark and looking forward to graduating in May.Read More
Staging a Cyber Crime: CSI Story
April 15, 2015 | By Mike RutledgeMonths before the rest of the world saw the new CBS crime drama “CSI: Cyber,” Xavier alum Victoria C. Page was cranking up the volume and revving up the visuals.Read More
Faculty Spotlight: David Gerberry, Assistant Professor, Mathematics
April 15, 2015 | By Julie Irwin ZimmermanFor those who consider advanced mathematics a strictly academic pursuit, David Gerberry’s research comes to a completely different, and extremely useful, conclusion. Gerberry creates and analyzes mathematical models of biological processes and diseases. In one project, he and four colleagues … Read More
Sundae Service
April 15, 2015 | By Julie Irwin ZimmermanLots of people want to fund good ideas that improve their community. And when there’s ice cream involved, doing good becomes fun—and yummy.
Kristine Frech, a 2008 Xavier grad, launched Cincy Sundaes last year with friend and colleague … Read More
