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UC student athlete alum spends career paying it forward

June 3, 2021

Maggie McKinley-Maric, A&S ’00, was running hurdles for the University of Cincinnati track and field team when life placed different types of hurdles in her path. She was a rising sophomore when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. And she was a gay woman striving to find her way in a pre-enlightened world while sometimes feeling that she and her gay friends were “part of a secret society.”

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UC’s Olympic poetry in motion

July 22, 2021

Five former University of Cincinnati athletes and one current second-year student prepare to compete in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics in July and August, representing four nations in five athletic competitions. Former Bearcats include Annette Echikunwoke, hammer throw (Nigeria); Vanessa Gilles, women's soccer (Canada); Nate Fish, baseball (Israel); Jordan Thompson, volleyball (U.S.) and Lewis Johnson (NBC Sports TV broadcaster). Lawrence Sapp, second-year UC student will compete in the Paralympic swim competition in late August.

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UC grad heads to Super Bowl as Bengals assistant head athletic trainer

February 8, 2022

Dan Willen, the assistant head athletic trainer for the AFC Champion Cincinnati Bengals, graduated from UC in 1998 with a degree in health promotion with an emphasis on athletic training. That program would be part of the formation a year later of the College of Allied Health Sciences. One of the reasons Dan, who went to high school in Dayton, OH, chose UC is because his dad graduated from the aerospace engineering program at UC in 1968 and did his co-op at NASA during the height of the manned missions to the moon.

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Plan ahead for UC Homecoming activities

November 3, 2021

Around the University of Cincinnati campus, some streets will close during the late-morning hours on Saturday, Nov. 6, while traffic and parking on other nearby streets will be restricted.

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Who is that behind the Bearcat?

December 13, 2021

The term 'Bearcat' has been part of the University of Cincinnati tradition for more than a century. The Bearcat mascot has been the face of UC to students, community members, sports fans and others. The mascot's persona and antics entertain and inspire excellence at the university on and off of the sports field.

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UC alum is a Queen City Pollinator

June 29, 2022

UC Alumni Sylvana Ross is saving bees and headed to Cornell University under fellowship where she will start her PhD program in entomology. She is a co-founder of the Queen City Pollinators Project.

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Plan ahead for UC Homecoming activities

October 5, 2022

University of Cincinnati Homecoming activities on Saturday, Oct. 8, will feature the annual Homecoming parade around campus starting at 10:30 a.m. and the football game versus the University of South Florida at 2:30 p.m. in UC’s historic Nippert Stadium.