May 26, 2022
University of Cincinnati master's student Julie Barnes works as a veterinarian at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden where she recently performed an ultrasound on a hippo.
June 15, 2022
A new botanical survey of southwest Ohio found that invasive species introduced to the United States over the past century are crowding out many native plants. They found that many species purposely introduced as landscaping plants are flourishing in the wild.
November 18, 2022
University of Cincinnati biology students use QR scanners to organize care for birds in their lab.
June 20, 2023
University of Cincinnati Assistant Professor Annette Rowe is studying the power of microbes that can use minerals to store an electrical charge and then recover that energy when needed — like an organic battery.
June 30, 2023
pretty ornamental shrub from Japan found in many people’s yards is sprouting wild in an increasing number of parks and forests across the United States. Now researchers at the University of Cincinnati warn that the shrub, Siebold’s viburnum, is showing up in many public forests across southwest Ohio.
August 23, 2023
UC researchers are studying the parasite responsible for Chagas disease to unlock new treatments to prevent its transmission.
April 10, 2023
Between 200 and 2,000 extinctions occur on Earth every year, according to The International Union for Conservation of Nature (ICUN), a global environmental association. For Jacob Danner, a fourth-year biology major in UC's College of Arts and Sciences, this fact is alarming. He has a strong passion for wildlife conservation, and after hearing Lily Maynard, director of global conservation at The Cincinnati Zoo, present her research and speak of her community outreach efforts, Danner was inspired to act on that passion.
April 3, 2023
University of Cincinnati scientists found that gregarious monk parakeets lose social standing during an absence. Top-ranked birds lost the most social standing while lower-ranked birds faced less aggression while rejoining the group. studied three groups of captive monk parakeets in 2021 and 2022. The new study, led by postdoctoral researcher Annemarie van der Marel, focused on testing whether social history was a critical component in structuring how the parakeets gained and maintained their ranks within their groups. Researchers were able to identify each bird’s status in the flock’s dominance hierarchy by observing their interactions and quantifying rank using networks of aggression.
April 26, 2023
UC doctoral student Darby Moore's work with endangered great green macaws is highlighted in a new wildlife documentary series.