UC students provide job coaching for people in recovery
March 13, 2020
University of Cincinnati students are providing job coaching to job-seekers in recovery at Cincinnati's Center for Addiction Treatment as part of a new service-learning project. The students learned through surveys they developed that the residents' biggest priority was returning to the workforce. They developed a curriculum for writing resumes, searching for jobs and filling out applications and put their plan into practice with one-on-one counseling sessions.
The Baltimore Sun: You thought you knew Appalachia
April 30, 2020
Samantha NeCamp, assistant professor and composition director in UC's Department of English, dispels Appalachian stereotypes in her book "Literacy in the Mountains: Community, Newspapers, and Writing in Appalachia."
Writing for justice project transforms into a video series
May 14, 2020
UC students create a YouTube channel called “Stay In, Speak Out,” where students publish their orated speeches for an online audience.
Nontraditional transfer student fell in love with UC
June 4, 2020
Transfer student Richard Vaglienti earns his degree in political science in 2020
UC poet’s timely collection of verse inspires
May 15, 2020
Rebecca Lindenberg receives $5,000 grant from the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards for poetry.
UC professor's award-winning book inspires documentary
July 23, 2020
Kristen Iversen, an English professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Arts and Sciences, is in the process of producing a documentary with HaveyPro Cinema based on her award-winning book “Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats.” Released in 2012, New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Skloot says “Full Body Burden” is “an intimate and deeply human memoir that shows why we should all be concerned about nuclear safety,” and, “one of the most important stories of the nuclear era.” Both the book and documentary talk of the detailed and compelling history of The Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant.