November 26, 2024
While the holidays can be overwhelming for many people, artificial intelligence could help reduce stress, WLWT reported. Jeffrey Shaffer, director of the Applied AI Lab in the University of Cincinnati’s Carl H. Lindner College of Business, said a key to getting good results from an AI query is to be specific.
November 25, 2024
Graduate student Kindall Coley and Kassidy Meyer, a fellow nutrition and dietetics student in UC's College of Allied Health Sciences, spent last summer working for Pantry4Health, a service of St. Vincent de Paul Choice Food Pantry and St. Vincent de Paul Charitable Pharmacy.
November 18, 2024
"We hear a lot about college enrollment of late. And it’s a safe bet that at least once in any conversation or article you’ll hear the phrase 'enrollment cliff.' ... But many schools have been on an enrollment roll, including the University of Cincinnati, which saw record enrollment 10 years ago and every year since — even during the pandemic," President Pinto writes in a Cincinnati Enquirer opinion article.
December 6, 2024
UC alum Ann Villalobos was undecided about joining the university’s PhD program in chemistry in 1985. She had graduated from the University of the Philippines—her home country—and gone on to the Tokyo Institute of Technology. She was looking for her next academic step when UC came onto her radar. Moving a world away to Cincinnati to further her education took some convincing for Villalobos. But she was intrigued by what the program had to offer. “I applied to the PhD program at the department of chemistry because the professors collaborate with each other to have a more meaningful, integrated research,” she said. After application, she was accepted. But she wasn’t totally convinced quite yet.
December 6, 2024
A prediction market was more accurate in forecasting the 2024 presidential election than traditional polls and pundits. The potential displayed by that success in forecasting the election, along with an administration friendlier to cryptocurrencies, could lead to greater adoption for them, a University of Cincinnati economist said. Michael Jones, PhD, a Carl H. Lindner College of Business assistant professor of economics and director of the Cryptoeconomics Lab at UC Digital Futures, said the success of a blockchain-based prediction market, Polymarket, in predicting the outcome of the election showed that cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies have more potential than just investments.
December 6, 2024
The University of Cincinnati’s Ishita Basu, PhD, has been awarded an $810,000 United States Department of Defense grant to conduct a pilot clinical trial testing early electrical brain stimulation to accelerate cognitive recovery after moderate traumatic brain injury.
December 5, 2024
Caitlin Fanello, fifth-year environmental engineering student at the University of Cincinnati, is motivated by the possibility of making a difference in the world. Of the many diverse paths students can take in environmental engineering, Fanello chose to focus her studies on water, including water resources and water treatment.
December 5, 2024
Through a ReSource Impact grant from Hamilton County Recycling, the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine is launching a program to recycle expanded polystyrene (EPS), including styrofoam and plastic foam packaging.
December 5, 2024
University of Cincinnati Professor Alexandre Sousa in a new paper outlined the next 10 years of global research into the behavior of neutrinos, particles so tiny that they pass through virtually everything by the trillions every second at nearly the speed of light.
December 5, 2024
The University of Cincinnati Cancer Center’s Alique Topalian, PhD, was recently named to OncoDaily’s 100 Influential Women in Oncology list.
Event: December 6, 2024 3:00 PM
UC's School of Environment and Sustainability will host the fourth-annual Environmental Justice and Advocacy Symposium.
December 3, 2024
WLWT segment features a recent induction ceremony for students in UC's Marian Spencer Scholarship Program. The scholarship was first announced in fall 2021 and was made possible by a large donation by 1988 graduate Jim Goetz and university investment. The Spencer Scholarship is for high-achieving Cincinnati Public School graduates and includes full tuition, room and board, a service abroad trip to Tanzania and many more opportunities.
December 2, 2024
United Press International, Yahoo News and MSN highlighted research from the University of Cincinnati's Daniel Arendt in a story on the rise of harm reduction vending machines across the country.
December 2, 2024
Susan Stephan, director of the master of legal studies program at UC Law, spoke with The New York Times for a story about the growing burden of credit and debit card fees for consumers and small businesses.
December 2, 2024
UC Professor Nicholas Dunning talks to LiveScience about evidence of aquaculture among ancient Maya in Belize.
November 27, 2024
National Geographic turns to UC biologist George Uetz to learn how spiders and insects survive the long winter.
November 26, 2024
WLWT highlighted East Tennessee woman Trisha Wilhoit who traveled to the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center for treatment for her Stage 4 colon cancer and received a liver donation from her sister Camille Berkley.
November 26, 2024
While the holidays can be overwhelming for many people, artificial intelligence could help reduce stress, WLWT reported. Jeffrey Shaffer, director of the Applied AI Lab in the University of Cincinnati’s Carl H. Lindner College of Business, said a key to getting good results from an AI query is to be specific.
November 25, 2024
WLWT reporter Lindsay Stone visited the University of Cincinnati campus and the River City Correctional Center to get a better understanding of the "Inside-Outside" program, led by UC’s J.Z. Bennett.