Resting on a hill overlooking the north side of Cincinnati, Clifton offers a wide range of experiences from a college atmosphere with the city's largest school, the University of Cincinnati, to an international center for cutting-edge medicine featuring University, Children's and Good Samaritan hospitals. Clifton's history has been preserved in historical buildings and homes — from modest to millionaire. Trendy shops and restaurants can be found on Ludlow Avenue in the Gaslight District, along with the Esquire Theatre, yoga studios, Clifton Market and a newly renovated branch of the Cincinnati Public Library. Even though Clifton is tightly compacted with large buildings and interesting architecture, green space does exist at Burnet Woods.
The University of Cincinnati, with 43,000 students, has undergone a transformation. Four years ago it created an international admissions office, which now has seven full-time employees plus two representatives in China and one in India. Read the full story here.
With the cold, grey winter months already upon us, a partnership between UC and the Cincinnati Nature Center is planting seeds of nature education that will take root next year. Final plans ensure that Sigma Sigma Commons on UC’s Clifton campus has some extra green come early summer. Focused towards children aged three to five, the new PlayScape is a nature-centric playground for children who attend the Arlitt Center as well as kids from the surrounding community. The 10,000-square-foot environmental haven includes a tree house, a stream and a bird-watching hideaway. Play elements are all focused on giving children places to learn about the world around them. Through a log fort, a stream that children can turn on and off and a sculpture with gardening tools and science equipment, the PlayScape allows children to develop skills that urban young people often never come across. The Arlitt Center not only provides childcare, it also provides opportunities for future educators to get hands-on experience in early childhood education. The PlayScape features an observation deck so that educators-in-training can watch children develop their motor skills and play in a much different setting from most urban playgrounds. The PlayScape also allows researchers to watch and learn how children develop skills and interest in sciences as children will be able to plant, cultivate and harvest food in the vegetable garden. The PlayScape is the second of its kind in Cincinnati – the first is the Marge & Charles Schott Nature PlaceScape at Cincinnati Nature Center. It was made possible through a $330,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will be funded over two years. Do Good: By Evan Wallis
This time it’s real. Cincinnati voters have (again) defeated a misguided attempt to block the city’s new streetcar, which now will move forward and could be operational as early as 2013. Read the full story here.
When wildfires flare up, they can get out of control and engulf huge areas in a matter of minutes. And when firefighters arrive on the scene, they can only survey the situation from one place – the ground. A team of engineers from the University of Cincinnati realized how useful it would be if firefighters could view the blaze from high above, so they set about designing and building an unmanned camera-equipped flying machine that could be easily controlled and, most importantly, would be able to comfortably withstand the extreme conditions. Read the full story here.
Want to learn about making music, and then how to sell it? The University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music and the Center for Entrepreneurship Education and Research have just the program for you. The directors of both programs came up with a combined major for commercial music production – realizing the need for both musical and start-up business skills. And it is this kind of cross-campus partnership that entrepreneurship center director Chuck Matthews says is the program’s strength. The program has been around since 1997, and Matthews has been there every step of the way. Now, the center routinely consults with area businesses, and has about 125 students majoring in entrepreneurship. “But entrepreneurship can come from anywhere,” says Matthews, a professor in entrepreneurship and strategy. “Entrepreneurship is nothing more than an economic phenomenon combined with a certain set of tools. And you don’t need to be a business major to learn those skills.” In addition, Matthews has been director of UC’s Small Business Institute since 1982. He says the institute has done over 500 faculty-guided student based consulting projects for local businesses, and the results have created a 99 percent customer satisfaction rating. “And 80 percent of our companies will implement at least one of our recommendations within the first few weeks,” Matthews says, adding that the services are free (although he is considering a sliding-scale fee model). And finally, the center is heavily involved in research. The UC entrepreneurship center is a Division I Carnegie-funded doctorate program as well as teaching undergraduates. That means that UC routinely publishes both theoretical and applied research in academic journals. Information on the UC Center for Entrepreneurship Education & Research, 513-336-7133 By James Pilcher
Each year, DesignIntelligence honors excellence in education and education administration by naming 25 exemplary professionals in these fields. The 2012 class of education role models was selected by DesignIntelligence staff with extensive input from thousands of design professionals, academic department heads, and students, one of the chosen teachs at UC's DAAP. Read the full story here.
University of Cincinnati’s (UC) Micro and Nano Manufacturing Laboratory Director, Murali Sundaram, is exploring the possibility of creating a cost-effective nano manufacturing facility Read the full story here.
University of Cincinnati Provost Santa Ono moved to town after stints at Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Emory University. He's a social media power player with plenty of Klout--all part of his plan to connect with students and the community. He took time to talk with Soapbox's Evan Wallis about UC, Twitter and even softball.
Cincinnati is the only team among the six high-major conferences to improve its victory total in each of the past five seasons. The Bearcats won 11 games in Mick Cronin’s rookie season as coach and followed it up with 13, 18 and 19 wins the next three campaigns. Read the full story here.
UC is among the “top producers” of U.S. Fulbright Scholars, according to a listing this week in The Chronicle of Higher Education. UC ranked ahead of Harvard, Columbia, Cornell and Ohio State. Read the full story here.
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