July 24, 2024
UC behavioral ecologist Elizabeth Hobson and her students are using a five-year National Science Foundation grant to explore new questions in animal cognition and sociality.
July 10, 2024
UC ornithologist Ronald Canterbury has been banding birds for more than 35 years. His research is helping to document the decline of species in the United States.
May 13, 2024
A biologist with the University of Cincinnati is raising public awareness about ways to keep birds from striking windows, a national problem that is leading to alarming declines in populations.
August 15, 2024
UC biologist Josh Gross studies blind cavefish, a species of fish that dwell in cave ponds in Mexico. In a study, supported by the National Science Foundation, Gross looked at the timeline for when the cavefish develop additional taste buds on the head and chin, finding the taste bud expansion starts at five months and continues into adulthood.
August 15, 2024
When Aaliyah Mann traveled to the Amazon to study abroad, she didn’t know what to expect. When she returned, she had a whole new perspective on how we, as a country, can try to help ourselves. Environmental challenges are becoming increasingly common. Roadblocks like deforestation and air pollution severely impact our world, and its future health, and the world is starting to take notice. In the summer of 2024, a Northern California wildfire forced hundreds to evacuate while parts of Florida were still reeling from severe flooding, as reported by NBC News. The world needs more people focused on lessening the effects of these issues, and the University of Cincinnati’s Environmental Studies program students seek to do just that.
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.
May 23, 2022
The UC creators of Biology Meets Engineering are wrapping up a three-year National Science Foundation grant to develop and demonstrate a new curriculum drawing from both fields in UC’s College of Arts and Sciences and its College of Engineering and Applied Science. UC students take the class for course credit while faculty will offer a three-week course in June to introduce the concept to high school students.
July 29, 2022
Brooke Bartholomew had a hunch something good was about to happen when she saw people carrying balloons in the University of Cincinnati’s black and red colors walk into her high school classroom.
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.
June 1, 2022
Researchers with the University of Cincinnati found that mosquitoes whose slumber is disrupted are more interested in catching up on their sleep than looking for food the next day. The research demonstrates how vital this biological function is even among insects.