May 2, 2024
UC is launching a new investigation to examine excess nutrients and contaminants in groundwater that provides drinking water for 2 million Ohioans.
May 5, 2023
Postdoctoral researchers often get little useful feedback about ways to improve their job applications for faculty positions. So a University of Cincinnati anthropologist set up a pilot program that invited postdoctoral researchers to review each others’ application documents.
February 22, 2024
UC Geosciences Associate Professor Andy Czaja and his students reflect on three years of Martian exploration using the Perseverance rover as members of the NASA science team.
September 14, 2022
UC receives $1.6 million in federal funding from National Science Foundation.
June 26, 2020
A diverse team of biologists, chemists, anthropologists and geographers from the University of Cincinnati identified toxic mercury and algae in two central reservoirs of Tikal, an ancient Maya city, in the ninth century shortly before the city was abandoned.
October 22, 2020
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Cincinnati discovered evidence of a sophisticated filtration system in the ancient Maya city of Tikal in what is now northern Guatemala.
June 22, 2021
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati say Tikal’s reservoirs — critical sources of city drinking water — were lined with trees and wild vegetation that would have provided scenic natural beauty in the heart of the ancient Maya city. UC developed a novel system to analyze ancient plant DNA in the sediment of Tikal’s temple and palace reservoirs to identify more than 30 species of trees, grasses, vines and flowering plants that lived along its banks more than 1,000 years ago. Their findings painted a picture of a lush, wild oasis.
October 11, 2021
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati are using geology and rainfall patterns to track migratory birds of prey across North America. Using an innovative combination of isotopes from the feathers of kestrels, goshawks and other predatory birds called raptors, researchers can narrow down where the young birds likely hatched and learned to fly. This method offers a useful tool to help scientists track elusive, wide-ranging animals, identify critical habitats and observe any changes in migration patterns.
January 22, 2021
Some caribou that trek hundreds of miles each year to give birth and find food shifted their historic migration routes after the 1970s, coinciding with construction of new roads and energy industry infrastructure, according to scientists with the University of Cincinnati.