September 28, 2021

Nontraditional students can be hard to define and even harder to teach in a traditional environment. UC’s College of Arts & Sciences makes it a point to offer flexible scheduling, learning and asynchronous options, aspects that helped Kathy Silbernagel and Al-Raheim Washington earn their liberal arts degrees this year. “In actual class setting, I saw little or no difference between my approach and those of my fellow classmates,” Silbernagel says. “If there is a difference it might be in that many—maybe most—students coming out of high school do not have clear career choices in mind and this was not an issue for me.” Nontraditional students are defined by one or more of seven characteristics: delayed enrollment in college; attends college part-time; works full time; is financially independent; has dependents other than a spouse; is a single parent; or does not have a high school diploma, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. How about a 70-year-old retired CEO and a family advocate and success coach in his mid-30s with a GED?

October 6, 2021

Third-year law student Rosita Ortiz has been named Vice Chair of the Executive Board for the National Latina/o Law Student Association (NLLSA) for the 2021-2022 term.

September 29, 2021

It started with a mid-summer check-in between student leaders and faculty advisors. Pride at Lindner’s (PaL) student executive board and its faculty/advisor leadership met to discuss strategic planning and goals for the upcoming school year and beyond. According to PaL advisor Nadia Ibrahim-Taney, those present overwhelmingly expressed the need for student financial aid, specifically an endowed scholarship. Such was the genesis of the Pride at Lindner Scholarship and Programming Fund, an endowed scholarship that would allow the current PaL team to leave a legacy for current and future LGBTQ+ students.

October 7, 2021

The University of Cincinnati is awarding prizes in the weekly ‘Strength in Immunity’ drawing. To further encourage vaccination against COVID-19, the university is conducting weekly drawings for gift cards in varying amounts of $2,500 or $5,000. In all, the university will award nearly $50,000.

September 10, 2021

Event on Sept 10 regarding new inclusion investments.

October 14, 2021

Activities part of UC Family Weekend have been captured in a photo gallery.

October 18, 2021

Anthony Mileti, CEAS ’25, an architectural engineering major, believes the buildings we live and work in must become simultaneously more resilient and less wasteful.

September 22, 2021

UC College of Engineering and Applied Science assistant professor Jingjie Wu and his students used a carbon catalyst in a reactor to convert carbon dioxide into methane. The new processes promise to help scientists address climate change and provide fuel for astronauts traveling back from Mars.

October 25, 2021

Dominique Jones, LCOB ’22, still has one more year of college, but already her résumé reveals an accomplished businesswoman who has both feet firmly planted on the career ladder and is ready to move skyward.

October 20, 2021

Wenbo Yin, doctoral student in saxophone performance at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), shares his journey from Yantai, China, to Cincinnati, Ohio.