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The Healthy Tan

A lotion that tans your skin without exposure to the sun and protects you against skin cancer sounds like the sort of miracle product...

The Moral Status of the Embryo

Is a blastocyst—an early-stage human embryo—a person? As part of the University’s efforts to encourage public dialogue about...

Camping Pioneer

The “camp bug” bit Kevin Gordon ’91 in college, when the psychology concentrator took a summer job as a tennis pro at a...

Ethics in Practice

Every Tuesday afternoon at the Kennedy School of Government, over lunch, a group of 10 people debates ethical questions that, in one form or...

by Elizabeth Gudrais

End of the Melting Pot?

In 1986, after receiving amnesty under the Immigration Reform and Control Act, Jorge Montes began looking for a good place to raise his family...

Seniors of Note

“The members of this year’s graduating class all possess talents and experiences that will carry them far in the world beyond the...

Flexible Movies

“You never see cartoons where there are bad outcomes,” says Michelle Crames, M.B.A. ’03, founder and CEO of Lean Forward Media...

by Craig Lambert

Crimson Intermediary

At a press conference, new Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka is flanked by translator Masafumi Hoshino ’02 (left) and...

Artful Engineering

In a single undergraduate course last fall, students tackled all of the following: engineering nanofood particles to combat childhood obesity...

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Growth Spurt

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has grown more in the past nine years than in the previous four decades. In a letter distributed to...

Economic Initiator

Every Wednesday at seven in the morning, Leland Cole ’57 and 10 other Cincinnati business leaders get together for breakfast. The meetings...

Fast Start

Although she will not move into the president’s office in Massachusetts Hall until July 1, President-elect Drew Gilpin Faust has launched...