February 11, 2020
University of Cincinnati students talk to WCPO-TV about the custom eyedropper they designed for veterans in collaboration with the Veterans Administration and the nonprofit group QL+ or Quality of Life Plus.
January 4, 2021
Four new faculty members join the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering and Applied Science. The faculty have expertise in a variety of areas including traffic safety, connected vehicles, software, networked systems, additive manufacturing and high-temperature alloys.
March 4, 2022
News outlets highlight a study by the University of Cincinnati that used the evolution of the microchip to predict advances in synthetic biology.
October 28, 2021
University of Cincinnati biomedical engineering graduate Jack Randall is developing a wearable safety device for runners and cyclists. Zoza, a small, wearable SOS device, can be attached to a shoe or zipper and is intended for endurance athletes who often don’t carry a phone or who travel through remote areas. A user can press a button to send an emergency alert and the device even works in locations where cell service is unavailable.
March 13, 2023
Six new faculty members join the College of Engineering and Applied Science in spring 2023.
July 28, 2021
Yoonjee Park, assistant professor of chemical engineering at University of Cincinnati's College of Engineering and Applied Science, developed a biodegradable drug delivery device that is activated by light, which would allow for on-demand dosing and fewer side effects for treatment of posterior eye diseases. With recent funding awards from the National Institute of Health and a Young Investigator Award from Ohio Lions Eye Research Foundation, Park and her research team are testing the safety and efficacy of the device. In 2019, she also participated in UC’s Venture Lab business pre-accelerator.
January 11, 2021
The University of Cincinnati's Digital Fabrication Lab fired up its 35 3D printers to help create products to help early in the pandemic. The projects were just a few of the 60,000 printed parts produced by the lab for UC engineering and medical students and faculty researchers and for external sources like the Cincinnati Museum Center.
March 3, 2022
Creating synthetic life could be easily within our grasp soon based on a comparison with the evolution of computer chips. Computer programming and gene synthesis appear to share little in common. But according to University of Cincinnati professor Andrew Steckl, an Ohio Eminent Scholar, leaps forward in technology in the former make him optimistic that wide scale gene manufacture is achievable.