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Grad students earn president's highest honor

April 28, 2021

The University of Cincinnati 2021 Presidential Medal of Graduate Student Excellence Awards honor three graduate scholars for scholarship, leadership, character, service and the ideals of the university. Awardees are spotlighted for exceptional academics, creativity, community service and innovation.

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UC students help community partners with business solutions

June 3, 2021

Three teams of English majors from UC’s College of Arts and Sciences assembled on a late Wednesday afternoon in April for a Zoom presentation. For their clients, they had prepared strategic business guidelines on topics from social media to grant writing and funding proposals to digital volunteer manuals. “Deliverables” in the business sense aren’t usually associated with liberal arts studies. But for students in this Professional Writing Capstone Class, offered through the department of English, it has become a familiar term. Using skills such as strategic analysis, web design, project management and research, the student teams prepared their deliverables for Cincinnati-area clients such as the Literacy Network of Greater Cincinnati, The American Cancer Society Discovery Store and more.

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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.

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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."