April 15, 2021
Good friends have your back. Great friends challenge you to strive for more. Ashlee Carlisle, BBA ’09, Anndréa Moore, BBA ’10, and Andrew Oyedeji, BBA ’12, are three great friends anyone should wish for in life.
June 3, 2021
Maggie McKinley-Maric, A&S ’00, was running hurdles for the University of Cincinnati track and field team when life placed different types of hurdles in her path. She was a rising sophomore when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. And she was a gay woman striving to find her way in a pre-enlightened world while sometimes feeling that she and her gay friends were “part of a secret society.”
June 3, 2021
When the COVID-19 pandemic scorched the past year’s calendar of events and travel plans, the University of Cincinnati Alumni Association, led by Chief Alumni Officer Jennifer Heisey ’97, found itself with a set of plans and preparations for 2020-21 that had become completely obsolete overnight.
March 23, 2021
Sheriff Charmaine McGuffey (CECH, Criminal Justice ’88) never imagined she’d be where she is today – the first woman and first openly gay person to serve as Hamilton County sheriff.
March 30, 2021
UC alumni, friends and community members are invited to a virtual day of fast-paced, TEDtalk-style presentations on diverse projects and experiences from DAAP alumni across all majors and degrees.
June 1, 2021
When Leisan Smith, ’99, ME ’03, began work this year as the inaugural chief equity officer at the prestigious Columbus School for Girls, the school’s staff and faculty were thrilled. The job description, they said, “was written for you.”
May 19, 2021
Mick Roebel, a proud alumnus of the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy, credits his time at UC for his achievements in pharmacological research and regulatory affairs.
May 11, 2021
The University of Cincinnati Foundation Board of Trustees has elected six new trustees to its 52-member board: Paul D. Green, BBA ’90; Lourdes J. Harshe, BBA ’92; Anndréa M. Moore, BBA’10; Arun C. Murthy, BBA ’95; Kirk L. Perry, BBA ’90, HON ‘15; and Christopher J. Van Pelt, BA ’91, MA ’93.
July 9, 2021
As a University of Cincinnati College of Medicine student, Sarah Appeadu, MD, ’21, remembers journaling on the “3 Cs” that got her through medical school: Community, community, community. Now, when she lists the people who supported her through four years of training—the last year in a global pandemic—it keeps growing: her family, her church, her classmates, and the college’s Office of Student Affairs and Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. “I look back and it was such a crucial time to really be nurtured in that way,” she says. “I’m so thankful that I had those people. It shows being around the right people really mattered. That’s my same hope for residency even.”
January 14, 2021
The University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) is partnering with Procter & Gamble’s (P&G) Beauty division to increase diversity and inclusion in the design industry. P&G Beauty has created three funds to support opportunities for underrepresented minority students to study design at DAAP’s Myron E. Ullman, Jr. School of Design.