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.

September 19, 2019

August 1, 2019

May 28, 2024

U.S. Rep. Greg Landsman, D-Cincinnati, toured the clean room at the University of Cincinnati to learn more about how students are preparing to join Ohio’s growing high-tech industries.

February 24, 2021

Students at the University of Cincinnati's Siemens Simulation Technology Center are making a phone app that can scan your face to a 3D printer to build your own custom face mask.

March 15, 2021

Three colleges at the University of Cincinnati collaborated to develop a semi-autonomous drone that can be dispatched right to people’s homes. The drones are big enough to carry medicine or medical supplies but small enough to maneuver the tight confines of a home using navigational algorithms developed by UC engineers so patients can talk face to face to their doctors or pharmacists.

November 22, 2022

For the second year, four students from the University of Cincinnati have been named University Innovation Fellows (UIF), a program run by Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.

March 14, 2024

Two University of Cincinnati students gave themselves just 30 minutes to come up with an idea for a startup business. Not only did they succeed, their idea has won multiple pitch competitions in the past year. Joe Kuncheria Panjikaran and Aniruddhan Ramesh are the founders of PhizzIO (pronounced “fizz-e-oh”), a startup that’s creating a business-to-business solution to improve physical therapy.

June 9, 2021

University of Cincinnati researchers found that while N95 masks are effective barriers against airborne diseases like COVID-19, poorly fitting masks can have substantial leaks around the face that reduce their effectiveness and increase the risk of infection.

July 15, 2021

Echoes from bats are so simple that a sound file of their calls can be compressed 90% without losing much information, according to a study by the University of Cincinnati.