September 27, 2023
The University of Cincinnati recently was recognized as one of the most innovative universities in the United States and celebrated the Digital Futures Grand Opening 2.0, the Cincinnati Business Courier reported.
September 27, 2023
On Sept. 15, inside the University of Cincinnati’s 1819 Innovation Hub, leaders from the university gathered on the third floor to celebrate and cut the ribbon outside the door housing the Warren Bennis Leadership Institute.
September 25, 2023
A University of Cincinnati Venture Lab-backed startup has developed a robot that can clean garbage, an oil spill or fish kill from waterways in a way that's safer and more effective than doing it manually, Spectrum News 1 reported.
September 25, 2023
In the world of academia, innovation is often celebrated for its potential to reshape industries and improve lives. At the University of Cincinnati, this spirit of invention is acknowledged and actively nurtured through the Office of Technology Transfer. Jill Uhl, JD, senior licensing associate, works behind the scenes on groundbreaking inventions emerging from UC faculty and staff.
September 21, 2023
The University of Cincinnati has been recognized as one of the top universities that advance innovation and invention in the United States by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The newest ranking list from the NAI, “Top 100 U.S. Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents,” used data provided by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to highlight the top American universities that generated utility patents. UC was ranked No. 72.
September 20, 2023
When Abby McInturf was a University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) student on her way to a degree in industrial design, she studied ways to enhance human health through better design. Her research and experiences in the UC Venture Lab led her, shortly after graduation, to found a company called Band Connect that improves physical therapy rehabilitation for a host of musculoskeletal injuries.
September 20, 2023
In higher education, individuals like Josie Dalton stand out. As the assistant director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Cincinnati, Dalton nurtures the entrepreneurial spirit in students.
September 19, 2023
While employed at the University of Cincinnati as a professor of mechanical engineering, William Kuhn, PhD, had an idea for a compact, flameless heater that could be enclosed in pre-packaged meals to safely cook them. The device transformed the meals, ready to eat landscape through a simple process involving salt water and a magnesium-iron alloy.
September 19, 2023
Ask someone what life-changing scientific breakthrough they might want to be remembered for, and it’s a fair bet they’ll say “Curing cancer.” RNA Nanotherapeutics is bringing that answer a step closer, thanks to the research of Xiaoting Zhang, the John and Gladys Strauss Endowed Chair in Cancer Research and director of the Breast Cancer Research Program of the University of Cincinnati’s Department of Cancer Biology. UC’s Venture Lab helped him launch a discovery that could transform the treatment of breast cancer.
September 19, 2023
Financial literacy is imperative to improving financial decision making and increasing financial empowerment, University of Cincinnati researchers said, and they’ve developed a scale specifically to measure literacy in the cryptoeconomics sector.