As we reach the end of another record-setting year at the University of Cincinnati, I’d like to extend my deepest appreciation for the role you play in our Bearcats community.
The year 2022 has been full of reasons to celebrate. We also faced difficult challenges together. It is through this togetherness that we emerge stronger as students, faculty, staff and alumni ready to face 2023 with excitement and resolve.
I’m thrilled that our institution is fulfilling the educational needs of more students than ever. This fall, we enrolled nearly 48,000 students, an all-time high. UC’s star is rising, and applications for next year are up more than 25%. This growth in enrollment is necessary to meet our mission to educate a larger number of our citizens.
We are also setting records for diversity at UC, with students of color representing 25.5% of our student body. In August, we welcomed 4,251 international students from 121 countries — the most in our history.
We also continue to offer programs that expand opportunities for our students. For example, the second cohort of NEXT Innovation Scholars are now here. And the first group of Marian Spencer Scholars from Cincinnati Public Schools are pursuing their educational dreams at UC.
In September, we opened our stunning new Digital Futures building in the Cincinnati Innovation District by inviting the larger community to see the innovative spaces that are home to 20 interdisciplinary research teams who are focused on solving problems that matter to our society. UC secured a No. 26 ranking among public universities from the Center for Measuring University Performance, driven by our impressive growth in external research funding, which is now a record $551 million.
Our successes are a testament to the hard work and dedication of our faculty and staff who work tirelessly to meet the needs of our students. I believe to my core that the NEXT generation of society’s leaders are studying on our campuses today.
In other words, “Next Lives Here.”
As we set our sights on 2023, I wish you all happy holidays.
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August 18, 2022
A University of Cincinnati electrical engineer has created a new flexible skin sensor that fits like a Band-Aid to monitor your health wirelessly without bulky electronics. Unlike previous generations of wearable sensors, the design has no rigid parts and relies on surface acoustic wave technology to transmit health data wirelessly.
July 11, 2022
The first year of the Perseverance rover mission on Mars captured the imaginations of scientists and the public alike with an interplanetary helicopter flight and the first chance to hear the sounds of the red planet. But two students at the University of Cincinnati say the best is yet to come in year two as the rover and their NASA science team begin in earnest to look for ancient life on another planet.
October 31, 2022
University of Cincinnati students and faculty get a chance to work on global wildlife conservation projects with the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, considered one of the best zoos in North America.
September 20, 2022
A group of UC Geology graduate students, faculty and alumni saw billions of years of the Earth's history on a field trip to Northern Minnesota and the Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada region in early August 2022.
August 2, 2022
The University of Cincinnati's Jiajie Diao, PhD, and colleagues have published new research in the journal Nature Communications showing light-activated proteins can help normalize dysfunction within cells.
September 9, 2022
Intel Corp. announced the first grants for semiconductor research and education to the University of Cincinnati as the company breaks ground on two new fabrication plants in Ohio.
$145 million
Record Annual Giving to NEXT/NOW Campaign
December 1, 2022
Kansas City Chief and former Cincinnati Bearcat, Travis Kelce announced that his Eighty-Seven & Running Foundation will make a substantial contribution to the University of Cincinnati Athletics Department by launching a Health and Wellness Endowment for Bearcats student-athletes.
June 22, 2022
Through a gift from longtime supporters Dan Kautz and Woodrow (Woody) Uible, the University of Cincinnati will launch two new programs studying cryptocurrency and new financial technologies. The gifts will create an educational program with the Carl H. Lindner College of Business for UC students and name a public-private lab space within the new Digital Futures building, set to open in fall 2022. Dan Kautz is co-founder and co-owner of K&S Companies, a real estate development and management organization. Through his partnership with UC economics alumnus Woody Uible, BA ‘75, a principal at Bartlett Wealth Management and UC Foundation trustee, the Kautz-Uible Economics Institute was created at Lindner in 2019. “Through the Kautz family and their outstanding named institute, Dan and Woody have long been forward-thinking and generous friends to our university,” said UC President Neville G. Pinto. “We are deeply grateful for their ongoing partnership and this new lab that will open more doors for our students and bring new partnerships across our growing campus.”
March 8, 2022
When Bill Hoeb talks about his 56-year marriage to his late wife Karen, he shares that the University of Cincinnati, cooperative education and Cincinnati Milacron played a large role.
March 2, 2022
Attend a Cincinnati Bearcats Women’s Basketball, Lacrosse or Volleyball game and that cheering you hear from the stands may likely be retired University of Cincinnati professors Laura and Richard Kretschmer. Loyal fans, the couple have been rooting for UC’s female student-athletes since the 1970s. This devotion doesn’t end with the season.
October 18, 2022
Sarah Pickle, MD, often hears transgender patients express gratitude for being celebrated by their health care team. Pickle, a physician with UC Health and an associate professor of Family and Community Medicine at the UC College of Medicine, is an advocate for transgender medicine within her practice and at the college.
July 11, 2022
It was typical for Tom Davis, ’83 CEAS, during his teenage years, to find guests at the dinner table. He often dined with students that his parents had met through their work at the University of Cincinnati. Tom’s father, R.T. Davis, was the chair of aerospace engineering at the UC College of Engineering and Applied Science in the 1970s. His mother, Barbara Davis, tutored students at the former University College. He remembers his mother meeting student-athletes for additional early-morning tutoring sessions and his father mentoring engineering students. Their kindness and focus on helping others have served as a life compass for Tom and his wife, Gloria Davis.
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