Colleen Hanycz signed on as Xavier University president in July of 2021 during a time of great change. She and her administration have responded to enrollment challenges and budget pressures by ramping up fundraising, cutting expenses, introducing new majors and establishing a new on-campus elementary school. Additionally, next fall, most juniors will be required to live on the Evanston campus, along with first- and second-year students. Hanycz is a 2026 person to watch for all those reasons – and the university's boldest recent move: building the first new medical school in Ohio in some five decades. Now under construction on the south edge of campus, the $109 million College of Osteopathic Medicine will open to students in the fall of 2027. Greater Cincinnati is full of smart, creative and energetic people like Hanycz. Some you might have heard of. Others are shaping the regions behind the scenes, in ways you might not even have noticed. That's one reason The Enquirer is unveilin...