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Earth Day is every day for UC sustainability stewards

April 21, 2022

With national Earth Day celebrated on April 22, events across all four campuses are bringing the awareness of UC's green energy initiatives and the improved built environment to light. While Earth Day was created in 1970, today a growing group of sustainability stewards all across UC continue to carry out the original Earth Day mission: from awareness to action.

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UC leads demonstration project to improve Ohio streams

May 4, 2022

Biologists at the University of Cincinnati are studying low-cost ways to improve water quality and wildlife habitat in Greater Cincinnati’s creeks. UC biologists Stephen Matter and Michael Booth are examining whether water quality and wildlife habitat can be improved simply by adding logs and branches in select parts of the upper Cooper Creek. The addition of fallen timber could help slow periodic floodwaters, create more standing pools for fish during droughts and add nutrients for plants and fungus that support other aquatic life, researchers said.

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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.