March 15, 2004
A penny saved earned applause for UC fashion sophomores who made highly creative garments from low-cost, thrift-store bargains. About 60 students previewed their garments yesterday, and they ll model them again at a fall fashion show for the community.
March 29, 2004
One of the humorous highlights of Mike Gasaway s directing career was the day Mel Brooks ridiculed his name. Recalls Mike, When Mel makes fun of your name, it has a whole different quality than what the kids at school did when I was growing up. I had to call my Dad right away after receiving a ribbing from Mel.
April 1, 2004
University Libraries hosts the annual April 1 event that brings out the artistic best in booklovers.
April 4, 2004
Hollywood s May release of Troy will, no doubt, hype the romance to be found in the Homeric epic, the Illiad. But the compelling reality of Troy has been enough to grip University of Cincinnati researchers, one of whom will be building a digital Troy, funded by a just-received National Endowment for the Humanities grant for $182,000 outright with the possibility of receiving an additional $7,500 from the NEH if a matching $7,500 grant can be found.
April 4, 2004
Pinpointing the nation s best fashion merchandising/product development talent is the goal of an annual Target Corporation competition. Last year, a UC senior sewed up the competition, and this year, two of only three national finalists are UC seniors.
April 5, 2004
UC employee and student Cory Thomas has traveled the globe as a Master s of Community Planning student. Ironically, he didn t actually plan on his new academic course. It just happened by accident.
May 24, 2004
Fingers are flying in the fashion design studios at the University of Cincinnati. The most public of final exams a professionally produced runway fashion show is coming up June 11. That means about 100 UC fashion students from sophomores to seniors are cutting patterns, knitting materials, sewing garments and fitting models in order to sew up the show in time.
May 26, 2004
Seven UC students will have the art of traveling down to a science by summer s end. That s when a select group of young artists will return after a summer spent photographing Paris, painting in Prague and picking up the threads of fiber-art methods in Japan.
May 27, 2004
Before there was Omaha Beach and Iwo Jima, there was Verdun, the Somme and Ypres. They were World War I meat grinders that introduced the world to immolation by flame thrower and the killing waft of gas asphyxiants. That war s shredding of men and disfigurement of landscapes lives on still, as evidenced by a new book of haunting photos by a University of Cincinnati fine artist.
June 2, 2004
The University of Cincinnati's School of Planning recently became a participant in a Peace Corps program that provides students with financial benefits for graduate studies along with degree-related service internships in at-risk U.S. communities. UC graduate planning students will work in disadvantaged Cincinnati neighborhoods.