August 5, 2003

UC's new degree concentration in astrophysics has universal appeal.

August 5, 2003

UC not only welcomes its first woman president to campus this year.

August 5, 2003

UC not only welcomes its first woman president to campus this year. It has also expanded its women s studies program to include a new major and minor.

August 5, 2003

Tomorrow s pioneers in brain-related research now have a new academic stepping stone available to them at the University of Cincinnati. The new undergraduate track in Brain & Mind Studies builds on the advances of the 1990s and The Decade of the Brain.

August 5, 2003

As the American workplace increasingly requires employees who appreciate different cultures, UC launches a new undergraduate certificate in American Ethnic studies.

August 13, 2003

Before the war in Iraq began, University of Cincinnati sociologist Steven L. Carlton-Ford guesstimated in a conservative scenario that 22,000-44,000 children under 5 would die as a direct and indirect consequence of the conflict, within the next year.

August 16, 2003

UC sociologist Annulla Linders examines women and the death penalty by studying newspaper accounts from 1830 to 1930. Not until the 19th century was women's presence at executions considered unusual or unfeminine.

August 17, 2003

Are family-friendly policies just reinforcing traditional gender roles by freeing women up for more housework? UC researchers find sometimes yes and sometimes no.

August 17, 2003

Before the war, UC sociologist Steve Carlton-Ford estimated that between 22,000 and 44,000 Iraqi children would die as a result of the war and its aftermath. Judging from indicators he has seen so far, he is not revising that forecast.

August 17, 2003

A new study by a University of Cincinnati researcher suggests that African Americans who choose black health-care providers do so because of personal experience with unfair treatment in the medical system.