October 17, 2004

With food fads, trends and tastes -- along with scientific food knowledge -- changing course so rapidly, today's culinary students need giant helpings of hard science in their academic diet. As part of budding trends, the University of Cincinnati just became the third school in the nation offering culinary students training in the hard sciences.

October 17, 2004

When poet Carl Dennis, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Practical Gods, visits McMicken College as Elliston Poet-in-Residence, he'll have a full schedule.

October 17, 2004

Halloween's origins may not be spooky, but they are unclear.

October 17, 2004

'When German-American Day was celebrated at the German Embassy on October 6, it was a success story for Don Tolzmann, director of German American studies, who spearheaded its formal designation through Congress.

October 17, 2004

Hoke and Stella Greene have been serving and shaping the chemistry department for more than 80 years.

October 17, 2004

Some foreign countries look a lot like home.

October 14, 2004

The UC Alumni Association is now seeking nominations for the William Howard Taft Medal for Notable Achievement and four other awards to be presented at next spring's UC Day Banquet.

October 14, 2004

The Department of African American Studies changes its name.

October 14, 2004

U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham has presented an award of $1,999,727 to the University of Cincinnati to fund hydrogen research.

October 14, 2004

Donna Chrobot-Mason may still be unpacking boxes, but she already has big plans for the Center for Organizational Leadership.

October 13, 2004

The Sexual Offense Response Team has invited all faculty members to attend one of two 1½-hour trainings on how to respond to student disclosures of sexual assault, intimate partner violence and stalking.

October 13, 2004

The Cincinnati Observatory Center, affiliated with the University of Cincinnati, has initiated an annual lecture series: Humanities @ The Observatory."

October 13, 2004

The New York Review of Books honored Willard Sunderland a few weeks ago by reviewing Taming the Wild Field: Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe.

October 13, 2004

The field narrows to 11 area high schools for UC s second-annual Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology (BEST) robotics competition.

October 13, 2004

Annual lecture honors the late Louis Lurie, MD.