June 7, 2004

Jaleen Francois of West Chester is graduating Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor s of science degree in graphic design. Her excellence in academics combined with her passion in using her talent to expose the tough issues and demand change has resulted in UC s highest honor for a female graduate: the C-Ring Award.

June 9, 2004

UC designers have won approval for their vision of the Greater Cincinnati Basketball Hall of Fame along the Ohio River at Sawyer Point. Now, city groups are courting donors for a ground breaking they hope will come within two years time.

June 28, 2004

Roderick Williams is the first student to take advantage of a program linking UC's graduate planning program and the Peace Corps. Thanks to the program, Rod and his wife are currently living and working in Honduras. After their service term, Rod will return to his studies in the classroom at UC to complete his Master's in Planning, but in the meantime, here's a chance to check on their progress at http://geocities.com/rwdywill

July 7, 2004

Cincinnati sisters Kelly and Raegen Salchow are both on pins and needles as the August Olympics in Athens approach. Kelly, rowing on the U.S. women s quadruple sculls team, is a soon-to-retire veteran seeking a medal after barely missing out with a fifth-place finish in the 2000 games. That hoped-for medal would suit Raegen just fine. It's Raegen who put her fashion-design degree to work for her sister, creating a state-of-the-smart unisuit that s more than sew-sew in providing a competitive advantage.

July 12, 2004

The summer break is no brake to the efforts of University of Cincinnati faculty and students at work on the Mediterranean island of Santorini. After years of having worked in other locales in Greece, the team was invited to this island paradise to help save it from a flood of tourists.

July 14, 2004

Local nuns evicted from their non-profit pizzeria don t have a lot of dough. That s why young design students from the University of Cincinnati have drawn up plans for and are now reconstructing portions of a storefront location in Over the Rhine to replace the location where the sisters formerly worked.

July 28, 2004

Santorini is a Mediterranean island that s just too pretty for its own good. The eight-mile gem of radiant sea, sky and cliffs and its 12,000 year-round inhabitants receive three million visitors a year. It s way too many people wanting way too much. And that s why the island invited an Extreme (Tourism) Make-Over Team from the University of Cincinnati to come and help tame tourism there.

August 4, 2004

Around the world, the most beautiful locales suffer from the ugly side of tourism. Such is the case for the stunning Mediterranean island of Santorini, a Greek gem in miniature that is awash in tourists who visit by the millions each year. But UC faculty and students have begun a multi-year effort to aid this island paradise, a place that s too pretty for its own good.

August 23, 2004

UC alumnus Bill Kavanagh was production manager for the first global Olympic torch relay, supervising ceremonies in 27 different countries, one every night for 34 nights.

August 31, 2004

University of Cincinnati design students are topping off a year in the classroom with real-world, hands-on work to benefit the local community. This summer, they ve reconstructed portions of a storefront location in Over-the-Rhine to help local nuns who need a new place to run a non-profit pizzeria that specializes in job training for hard-to-employ residents of the community.