REVISED DATE: UC graduates poised to celebrate
April 26, 2021
UC will recognize 6,866 students earning 7,225 degrees at its spring celebration. Some students earn multiple degrees. The graduates earned 504 associate degrees, 4,749 bachelor’s degrees, 1,433 master’s degrees, 242 doctoral degrees and 297 professional degrees.
President picks exceptional talent
April 28, 2021
The University of Cincinnati 2021 Presidential Leadership Medal of Excellence Awards honor six undergraduate scholars for scholarship, leadership, character, service and the ideals of the university. Awardees are spotlighted for exceptional academics, creativity, community service and innovation.
A beautiful day to celebrate together
April 30, 2021
UC recognizes a record number of graduates at its spring 2021 commencement, its first in-person event since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Unheralded but essential: Celebrating UC’s CECH alumni during Teacher Appreciation Week
May 3, 2021
The Arlitt Child Development Center has remained a place of stability, love and magic. Despite formidable obstacles, Arlitt’s teachers — including 15 graduates from the UC College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services — have drawn upon their creativity and grit to continue serving the essential developmental needs of more than 100 children ages 3 to 5.
Classics fellowships reflect academic excellence
May 28, 2021
A steady stream of fellowships are bestowed on UC Classics students.
UC students help community partners with business solutions
June 3, 2021
Three teams of English majors from UC’s College of Arts and Sciences assembled on a late Wednesday afternoon in April for a Zoom presentation. For their clients, they had prepared strategic business guidelines on topics from social media to grant writing and funding proposals to digital volunteer manuals. “Deliverables” in the business sense aren’t usually associated with liberal arts studies. But for students in this Professional Writing Capstone Class, offered through the department of English, it has become a familiar term. Using skills such as strategic analysis, web design, project management and research, the student teams prepared their deliverables for Cincinnati-area clients such as the Literacy Network of Greater Cincinnati, The American Cancer Society Discovery Store and more.
CCM Piano students form interdisciplinary art collective
May 28, 2021
Two of CCM’s doctoral piano students recently started Music X Habitat X Art, an organization that combines classical music with immersive visual art, both in physical installations and in the digital space. Yaoyue Huang and Scott Sherman, alongside Chinese visual artist Amelie Jiang, just enjoyed their organization’s first solo exhibition.
Listen: Cincy Playhouse shares CCM audio plays
May 28, 2021
Each audio play is its own story, and you can listen to these pieces for free in any order you choose. They represent a year-long collaboration that reached into many corners of Cincinnati. Students from all over UC (CCM Acting, Sound Design, Stage Management, Commercial Music Production, Digital Media, and the College of Arts & Sciences’ Fiction PhD program) and local professional writers (YA author Liz Coley and musician, comedian and raconteur Paul Strickland) came together to make something truly special. Paul Strickland's play will be available soon. The Playhouse is assisting CCM by hosting and helping to promote these free audio plays.
UC student wins national physics fellowship
May 14, 2021
A University of Cincinnati physics student was selected for a prestigious U.S. Department of Energy fellowship. She will study dark matter at Fermilab.