March 8, 2021

By Joí Dean As an undergraduate in UC’s College of Arts and Sciences, alumna Dr. Nasrien E. Ibrahim was influenced by the diverse community she found herself among. It was, she says, “people from all different cultural, racial and ethnic backgrounds. I just loved the melting pot and diversity. Not just the background, but of thought and experience of views on life,” Ibrahim said. That appreciation for diversity has influenced her career as a cardiologist and her approach to medicine, and caused her to appreciate more deeply social inequities that made her work more challenging. Recently a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, Ibrahim served on the front lines during the pandemic.

March 9, 2021

Erica Bock wrote a feature length screenplay for her capstone project as a senior in the Digital Media Collaborative in UC’s College of Arts and Sciences. Since graduating in the fall of 2019, she has been making the festival rounds with her drama that focuses on a college student in the 1950s wrestling with drugs and her sexual identity.

March 16, 2021

By Todd Herzog The program in German and Media Praxis at the University of Duisburg-Essen and the program in German Studies at the University of Cincinnati were awarded a competitive Germanistische Institutspartnerschaften (German Studies Departmental Partnership) grant by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) to conduct an integrated research project on the topic of literacies over the next three years. The initial grant, in the amount of 113,540 Euros, is renewable for up to nine years and will fund travel, research projects, and publications. A core team of 13 faculty and students from UC and UDE will investigate the topic of literacies from historical, cultural, theoretical, political, linguistic, and pedagogical angles. The group will present a series of lectures and papers that will focus on digital literacies, media literacies, and linguistic literacies and will be disseminated on the project’s website and through public workshops featuring noted experts in the field. The initial meetings are taking place virtually, but plans are to travel between the US and Germany when international travel resumes. The two programs have enjoyed a close relationship since 2012, partnering on an annual Transatlantic Seminar in which graduate students and faculty from both universities gather for an intensive week in which participants discuss a topic from the broad realm of literary and media studies and explore the cities in which they are meeting. A group from UC has traveled to Essen four times and a group from UDE has visited Cincinnati three times since the beginning of this partnership, which has been funded on the UC side by the Graduate School and the Taft Research Center, as well as the Department of German Studies. A planned joint seminar in conjunction with the University of Namibia in Windhoek had been planned for March 2020, but has been postponed until international travel can resume.

February 26, 2021

UC Judaic studies department head Matthew Kraus is part of a religious letter writing campaign to U.S. leaders.

March 1, 2021

UC biologist Latonya Jackson tells the Cincinnati Enquirer to expect more volatile weather like this winter's heavy snowfall as climate warms.

March 18, 2021

University of Cincinnati assistant professor Ashley Ross studying communication between the brain and lymph nodes in your gut to understand our immune response.

March 19, 2021

UC researchers ran quantum simulations to understand glycerol carbonate, a compound used in biodiesel and as a common solvent.

March 17, 2021

 By Rebecca Schweitzer    [COPY] Political Science has become the third department within the College of Arts & Sciences to add a co-op track to their program. This new optional track for all Political Science, International Affairs and Law & Society majors allows students to gain professional experience while enrolled at the University of Cincinnati. The co-op subplan is designed for students to be able to complete within the standard four-year undergraduate plan in most cases.

March 19, 2021

By: Joí Dean Many UC students have missed the opportunity to travel abroad in the past due to the pandemic, but two professors from the College of Arts and Sciences have found a solution. Assistant professors Juan Godoy and Kara Moranski, along with colleagues from the Department of Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures, have created UC’s first Summer Spanish Local Immersion Program. The idea was originally proposed by professor Carlos Gutiérrez, who had a vision for students to have an opportunity to experience Hispanic culture locally. After numerous brainstorming sessions, Godoy and Moranski will see the program come to life this summer. “Students should expect to fully engage in daily activities and cultural activities that are not normally part of a regular class,” Godoy said.

March 12, 2021

Phys.Org highlights University of Cincinnati's genetic research on a common agricultural pest that causes $2 billion in damage each year.