August 5, 2020
UC associate professor Nathan Morehouse talks to WVXU about the surprising color vision of jumping spiders. He is traveling the world to study how color vision evolved in these tiny spiders.
October 31, 2020
For Halloween, Newsweek highlights 'ghastly' snake hunting behavior described for the first time by UC biologist Bruce Jayne.
October 30, 2020
UC professor George Uetz talks about finding that spiders 'hear' with their legs. He says the more we learn about them, the more we appreciate their amazing abilities.
October 30, 2020
Science Magazine explains how UC graduate Charles Henry Turner pursued science in the face of discrimination. His profound contribution to science is only now being recognized.
June 24, 2022
University of Cincinnati researchers found evidence of sustainable agriculture and forestry spanning a millennia in one ancient Mayan city.
February 24, 2023
Psychedelics might help people change unwanted behaviors by helping them reinvent their perceptions of themselves, according to new research by the University of Cincinnati.
May 5, 2023
Postdoctoral researchers often get little useful feedback about ways to improve their job applications for faculty positions. So a University of Cincinnati anthropologist set up a pilot program that invited postdoctoral researchers to review each others’ application documents.
June 7, 2024
Three University of Cincinnati professors were named to the 2023 class of American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows, a distinguished lifetime honor within the scientific community. From UC's College of Arts and Sciences, Carlton Brett, a professor in the department of geosciences, and George Uetz, a biological sciences professor, were honored. Dionysios Dionysiou, a professor of environmental engineering in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, was honored posthumously.
January 20, 2023
Ohio is the first of several states taking steps to eradicate the once-popular ornamental Callery pear tree, known for their white spring blossoms.
September 16, 2022
Biologists at the University of Cincinnati found that it’s not just the size of a python's head and body that puts almost everything on a python’s menu. They evolved super-stretchy skin between their lower jaws that allows them to consume prey up to six times larger than similar-sized snakes.