Detonate (Editor)

“Detonate will open your eyes to see the processes, policies, and organizational practices that have outlived their usefulness to customers, employees and investors. Steve and Geoff give us new ways of operating logically that better align with the fast-changing requirements of our future ‘everything is digital’ world.” —Lowell McAdam, Chairman and CEO, Verizon Communications

Can Probiotics Help Control Weight?

We take a look at the science pointing to signs of probiotic-related weight loss and whether popping a pill will advance your slim-down goals.

Talking About Revolutions

Sweet on chocolate? There’s a shop in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood you might want to check out — a bikeshop. Gregory Crichlow (Arch’95) has transformed a former drug den into a boutique bike shop that also sells artisanal bean-to-bar chocolate. The story dates to 2009, when the Great Recession brought the American economy to its knees, dramatically slowing work for Crichlow, then employed […]

What It Means to Be Kelly Brush

Were this a true celebrity profile, one of those longform pieces you’d read in Vanity Fair accompanied by black-and-white Annie Leibovitz photos, we might see Kelly Brush Davisson ’08 lounging…

Gorgeous Neuroscience Meets Student Life

Pioneered by Professor James Hudziak, M.D., Dr. Jim to his students, WE has significantly reduced substance abuse on campus while earning national buzz for its novel and ground-breaking approach to…

How Overtraining Can Trap Athletes

Two years after breaking my leg in a freak running accident, I was logging up to 100 miles a week on the treadmill in preparation for a 36-hour adventure race….

Adrenaline Adventures

After years of talking about it, my two best friends from college and I decided to finally go on a girls’ getaway in April 2016. We didn’t want to choose…

Pedaling a New Path: Road Biking

On one of my first road-biking adventures, my husband, Carlton, and I pedaled 15 miles through the rolling hills of Vermont. After wheeling past quaint barns, golden haystacks, and historic…

Can Algae Help You Age Better?

Turning 40? That was a piece of cake (a small piece, mind you). But six months after turning 42, I began feeling a bit middle-aged. Despite years of clean eating,…