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National rankings highlight UC’s co-op program, innovation

September 12, 2022

The University of Cincinnati’s co-op program stands at No. 4 in the U.S. News & World Report’s latest rankings, continuing its historical placement among the top five co-op programs in the country — and No. 1 for co-op among public universities. The latest 2023 issue of the magazine’s influential “Best Colleges” guide ranks UC in the top tier, including among the “most innovative among national universities,” (No. 68) — UC’s first-ever ranking in that category.

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Mastodon: But I would walk 500 miles...

June 13, 2022

Using isotopic analysis of its tusks, researchers tracked the ever-increasing seasonal migrations of a male mastodon across what is now Indiana, Ohio and Illinois more than 13,000 years ago. It's the first study of its kind to examine the seasonal movements of the largest extinct Ice Age animals.

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Madagascar's hippos were forest dwellers

July 12, 2023

Extinct hippos that once roamed Madagascar lived in forests rather than the open grasslands preferred by common hippos on mainland Africa, researchers at the University of Cincinnati discovered.

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How to spot a fake

December 6, 2022

University of Cincinnati chemists, geologists and art historians are collaborating to help area art museums answer questions about masterpieces and detect fakes — and teaching students about their methods.

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Researchers find evidence of twin mass extinctions

April 10, 2023

An international team of researchers say new evidence suggests a mass extinction 260 million years ago was not a single event but two separated by nearly 3 million years, both caused by the same culprit: massive volcanic eruptions.

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‘Snowball Earth’ might have been slushball

April 5, 2023

Scientists say the Marinoan Ice Age was one of the most extreme in the planet’s history, creating glacial ice that persisted for 15 million years. But new evidence collected in China suggests the Earth was not completely frozen — at least not toward the end of the ice age.

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Caribou have been using same Arctic calving grounds for 3,000 years

February 8, 2023

Caribou have been using the same Arctic calving grounds for more than 3,000 years, according to a new study by the University of Cincinnati. Female caribou shed their antlers within days of giving birth, leaving behind a record of their annual travels across Alaska and Canada’s Yukon that persists on the cold tundra for hundreds or even thousands of years.