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Trailblazing engineering professor honored with alumni award

January 30, 2023

Professor Awatef Hamed is a trailblazer. She came of age during a time when few women were going to college to study engineering. In 1968, she left her home in Egypt and came to the University of Cincinnati as the only female graduate student in the aerospace engineering program. She went on to get her master’s and doctoral degrees from UC and then was hired as a faculty member, where she was the only female faculty member for two decades. In 2001, she became the first woman to head a college aerospace engineering department.

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Lynn Fisher remembered as a trailblazer

June 15, 2022

The thud of a book falling on the floor each night was a regular occurrence during the 38-year marriage of Lynn Toby Fisher and John Lee Compton. Fisher, JD ’73, worked long hours as a corporate attorney at Kaye Scholer LLP (now Arnold & Porter LLP) in New York City, and would often fall asleep reading, dropping her book.

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UC alumna creates scholarship benefiting women in engineering program

May 23, 2022

Only 15% of U.S. engineers are women, according to the latest data from the United States Census Bureau. It’s a gap the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering and Applied Science hopes to help close, and a UC alumna has established a scholarship that will aid efforts.