September 28, 2023
UC Classics Associate Professor Steven Ellis talks to National Geographic about the controversial topic of excavations at Pompeii. Some researchers say there is more to learn by unearthing the city. Ellis said preserving what is there is key.
March 7, 2024
Housed in the College of Arts and Sciences, the classics program is filled to the brim with world-renowned faculty and access to many professional resources. Many classics students began their UC experience outside of classics but came to love the variety of skills and lessons to learn.
May 1, 2024
The Cincinnati Enquirer highlights a rare book found in a University of Cincinnati library that chronicled a high-profile murder trial in 1929.
May 31, 2024
The University of Cincinnati’s Jack Davis, Carl W. Blegen Professor of Greek archaeology in the department of Classics, has been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. With this honor, Davis joins the ranks of luminaries such as U.S. president John Adams (elected in 1780), language scholar Noah Webster (of dictionary fame, tapped in 1799), and more currently playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda, and actor and philanthropist George Clooney. Begun just four years after the Declaration of Independence was signed, when the U.S. was comprised of 13 colonies, the academy was established by founding fathers in Cambridge, MA.
July 28, 2020
The Cincinnati Museum Center officially opened Maya: The Exhibition last week, and with it a hands-on companion exhibit developed by an interdisciplinary team of Maya experts from the University of Cincinnati College of Arts and Sciences. Originally slated for a March 14 opening, the exhibits were shuttered until late this month after the state lockdown resulting from the novel coronavirus pandemic. In its U.S. premiere, the exhibit features more than 300 original objects—from massive, carved-stone slabs to elaborate jade jewelry to tools and everyday items—that explore Maya culture. From 1000 BC to 1500 AD, Maya civilization spanned the jungles of Mexico, Guatemala and Belize, noted for its innovations in science, agriculture, astronomy and mathematics.
November 30, 2018
The University of Cincinnati, in collaboration with Kent State University and Heidelberg University, will begin researching the best methods for integrating plants and living systems within buildings as designed ecologies.
October 1, 2020
Department head Jeffery Blevins provides insight into how UC is preparing journalists in the digital age.
October 28, 2020
Election lies are difficult to overcome say cyber security researchers who simulated an attack on the 2020 presidential election.
October 30, 2020
The truth usually wins out, except with election disinformation. A new study finds lies win out over truth.