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UC mock trial team makes elite national competition

May 11, 2022

Each spring, in hundreds of nondescript rooms across the country, around 700 collegiate mock trial teams compete. Team members collaborate to create compelling arguments, for both the mock defense and prosecution, to win their respective cases. Tensions run high and each team member must be fully prepared and in character to advance to the national competition. Only seven percent of all collegiate teams qualify, and UC’s team joined the elite competition this year for the first time since 2019, appearing in the American Mock Trial Association’s national championship in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in April. UC’s team is comprised mainly of students from the College of Arts and Science, with more than two-thirds of the nationals team enrolled in an A&S major. The UC Mock Trial Team had the unique opportunity of competing with all-female team with co-captains Divya Kumar and Zophia Pittman-Jones leading. Kumar, who has been on the team since her first year at UC, is a third-year history major. She was awarded an All-American Attorney Award at Nationals.

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Black FUTURE month is here 

February 6, 2024

The University of Cincinnati’s annual Black History Month celebration is back and better than ever. This year’s celebration has been renamed Black FUTURE Month by organizers, and includes something for everyone—from tours of historical Black churches to cosplays to Drink n’ Thinks, field trips and food.

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UC professor receives Book History prize for his work

July 13, 2020

By Adam Cline Jeff Zalar, associate professor of History at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), has won the annual DeLong Book History Book Prize from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). The award was conferred last month for his recently published book, "Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770–1914" from Cambridge University Press (2019). SHARP awards the prize to the