Endowment Impact Stories

January 30, 2023

Professor Awatef Hamed is a trailblazer. She came of age during a time when few women were going to college to study engineering. In 1968, she left her home in Egypt and came to the University of Cincinnati as the only female graduate student in the aerospace engineering program. She went on to get her master’s and doctoral degrees from UC and then was hired as a faculty member, where she was the only female faculty member for two decades. In 2001, she became the first woman to head a college aerospace engineering department.

January 25, 2023

Jerry Harris, JD ’72, is not the fearsome litigator you expect when he opens the door to his home. His hair is shoulder-length; his feet are bare. He has two raucous (yet adorable) dogs on leashes and an adorable grandchild on the couch with his wife of 50-plus years, Carol.

January 25, 2023

The University of Cincinnati and its affiliates spent a record $615 million on research in fiscal year 2022, demonstrating their commitment to discovery and innovation.

December 9, 2022

A new fellowship at the UC College of Medicine aims to help future doctors become experts in transgender and LGBTQ+ medicine.

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.

October 17, 2022

The phone call changed the trajectory of Justin Kenney’s life.