June 30, 2020

Seven STEM students represented the University of Cincinnati at the 2020 Choose Ohio First state-wide showcase.

June 16, 2020

In November 2019, the UC College-Conservatory of Music Wind Symphony presented a special concert to commemorate the 50th anniversary year of the Stonewall Uprising. Exclusively featuring works by LGBTQ+ composers, the performance showcased Omar Thomas’ A Mother of a Revolution, which is available to watch online.

June 25, 2020

Today we celebrate Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when Union Army General Gordon Granger read the federal proclamation of freedom from slavery in Galveston, Texas, two years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Now 155 years later, we feel it is important for us to make public our position and commitment to be a more just and inclusive civic and educational community.

August 31, 2020

Jim Obergefell (CECH, ’90) and his late husband, John Arthur, (Bus, ‘88) met at UC. Their love story would go all the way to the Supreme Court and make same-sex marriage legal throughout the United States.

August 9, 2020

University of Cincinnati clinical psychologist Maria Espinola, PsyD, offers some insights on staying emotionally and mentally healthy in the midst of COVID-19. Learn more.

October 7, 2020

University of Cincinnati students can now enroll to earn a Bachelor’s degree in two new humanities programs: Social Justice, and Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies, offered through UC’s College of Arts and Sciences.

October 9, 2020

As the first Latina on Ohio’s Court of Appeals, a grateful Judge Marilyn Zayas makes good on her sense of obligation to the law, her community, and the next generation of legal minds

October 19, 2020

Alvin Crawford launched a program at the University of Cincinnati this year designed to mentor Black males in medical school. Black Men in Medicine Cincinnati (BMIMC), in its infancy, attempts to pair incoming medical students with older medical students and those who are closer to completing their medical degree with residents and attending physicians. The thinking is that camaraderie, networking and a defined support system might ease isolation and lead to a boost in numbers of Black male physicians.

October 14, 2020

The University of Cincinnati and three of its colleges have been honored with the 2020 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. In all, only 46 U.S. colleges and universities received the award.

October 15, 2020

Shaonta’ is a Black Christian millennial scholar. These intersecting aspects of her identity inform the way she conducts and makes sense of her research. Her dissertation project, Unapologetically Black and Unashamedly Christian: Exploring the Complexities of Black Millennial Christianity, looks “specifically at how religion plays a role in how young Black Christians are making sense of racial inequality and how they go about responding to some of the racist conditions that they may experience.”