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PRESIDENT ’S REPORT O N T H E UNIVERSIT Y O F
CINCINNATI
“ strategy for academic The story of our enrollment success starts with our
excellence.
Less Eiffel Tower and more New York City skyline.
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— President Santa J. Ono The Presidency / Winter 2015
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“Cincinnati ranks among the
10 best metro areas
for STEM professionals. — WalletHub
INVESTING IN TOP QUALITY faculty from around the world, the Creating Our Third Century plan commits the University of Cincinnati to hiring new professors to build on our research and innovation excellence. Faculty like newly arrived cancer researcher Jianjun Chen, right, will be recruited through a $60 million initiative with the goal of funding a total of 60 faculty in 10 clusters. Chen has joined the College of Medicine and was recruited from the University of Chicago. The first four clusters recently announced under the Third Century strategic plan are Analytics, Digital Media, Precision Cancer and Water.
ANALYTICS
DIGITAL MEDIA
Harnesses big data to solve big problems, inform big decisions.
Promotes excellence in digital media research, creative scholarship and education.
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$60M to invest in faculty cluster hiring
PRECISION CANCER
Promotes innovative advances in treatment through research in genetics, epigenetics and metabolomics.
WATER Establishes our region as a national and global leader in water research, education and outreach. 3 #HOTTESTCOLLEGEINAMERICA
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“We are the pioneers
in developing this for performance enhancement, injury prevention and concussion management.” — Joseph Clark, Professor of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine
THE DANGERS OF CONCUSSION have captured renewed attention, especially in sports where the injury can lead to life-threatening and life-changing consequences. At the University of Cincinnati, faculty and students are uncovering innovations that might help. Working with the University of Cincinnati Bearcats football team and other researchers, UC Professor
of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine Joseph Clark released a study that shows that vision training using a Dynavision D2 light board led to an 80 percent reduction in the team’s average annual concussion rate. The intensive training focuses on developing peripheral vision. The study received funding from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and a UC board member.
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80%
reduction in concussion rate using vision training
Ergonomics Protection Priorities*: 1. Temple 2. Side of Head In hands-on studio courses, students are developing 3. Forehead new concepts for concussion prevention, diagnosis 4. Lower back of head and treatments, guided by faculty in the colleges of Nursing and Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning.
“Ears not necessary”
Among their proposals are:
Full •field ofthat vision a device places pressure on a blood vessel (no blind spots) in the neck to increase intracranial pressure and help hold the brain in place during jarring blows
Must be lightweight & • an awareness campaign to help athletes balanced to prevent recognize when an injury might be serious interference with • a biker’s pack that inflates during accidents to pitching motion protect the head and neck.
Option for facemask or eyeshield
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“My host mother included me in traditional Hindu ceremonies.
…The life skills I picked up were immense.” — Lauren Magrisso,UC student THE HIMALAYAN MOUNTAIN range and its changing environment. Sustainable business concepts for female social entrepreneurs in Bangalore. Environmental journalism in Gujarat and ethnic music in the Uttarakhand highlands. These can be counted among the topics and places UC faculty and students work and study in the nation of India. Through education abroad and service learning, faculty members − including Lewis Owen of geography, Elissa Yancey and Sean Hughes of journalism, Christopher Auffrey of planning, Omotayo Banjo of communication, Ratee Apana of management and Raj Mehta of UC International − are guiding students through hands-on experiences that range from business
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competitions to aiding isolated communities obtain clean water. Recently, photojournalism students documented the human condition in India’s rural communities and during spring break 2015, journalistsin-training gathered to report firsthand on the environmental, economic and health impact of the Navinchandra Mafatlal Sadguru Water Development Foundation.
1,139 number of UC students from India
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trans f or m ing C H A N G I N G
lives
L I V E S
“The Ohio Innocence Project has become
one of the premier projects
in just 10 short years.”
— Barry Scheck, Innocence Project Founder
WRONGFULLY IMPRISONED for nearly 40 years for the killing of a money order salesman, Ricky Jackson of Cleveland gained his freedom, thanks to the work of the Ohio Innocence Project (OIP) at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Since its founding in 2003, the OIP in UC’s Rosenthal Institute for Justice has attained freedom on grounds of innocence for 20 inmates and has more on the horizon. Jackson, far right, made history as the longest-serving prisoner to be exonerated in U.S. history. His case also led to the release of another co-defendant, Wiley Bridgeman, who served 39 years, along with the clearing of another, Ronnie Bridgeman, who had served until 2003. In another OIP case, three other men are free for
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the first time in 20 years, awaiting a new trial. Mark Godsey, Rosenthal Institute and OIP director, left, and its staff and students have also championed state legislative reforms that resulted in Ohio becoming a national model on reducing and preventing wrongful convictions of the innocent.
387.5 total prison years served before OIP won release
OIP clients freed and time served: Ricky Jackson, 39 years / Wiley Bridgeman, 39 years / Ronnie Bridgeman (Kwame Ajamu), 28 years / Dewey Jones, 20 years / Douglas Prade, 15 years / Glenn Tinney, 20 years / Bryant “Rico” Gaines, 9 years / Roger “Dean” Gillispie, 20 years / David Ayers, 11 years / Walter “Wally” Zimmer, 12 years / Teddy Moseley, 10 years / Raymond Towler, 29 years / Willie Knighten Jr., 12 years / Nancy Smith, 15 years / Joseph Allen, 15 years / Joseph Fears, 25 years / Robert McClendon, 18 years / Bruce Paul, 14 years / Chris Bennett, 4 years / Clarence Elkins, 7.5 years / Gary Reece, 25 years 9 #HOTTESTCOLLEGEINAMERICA
N A T I O N A L L Y
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43,691 TOP 200 AMONG THE
HIGHEST GLOBAL ENROLLMENT IN 200-YEAR HISTORY
UNIVERSITIES (U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT)
Higher Education
Excellence in
Diversity Award
FOR RETURN ON
INVESTMENT
(POLICYMIC)
NATIONAL MERIT/ NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT
FINALISTS
AMONG THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL COLLEGE CAMPUSES
(FORBES)
(INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine)
NO. 1
170
PUBLIC UNIVERSITY
OF THE YEAR (THE WASHINGTON CENTER)
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rankings
in THE Top 50
Accounting (10th) / Cooperative Education (4th) / Criminology (3rd) / MBA for Highest Financial Value (10th) / Music (6th) / Music Composition (9th) / Musical Conducting (5th) / Online Graduate Nursing for Veterans (10th) / Opera/Voice (3rd) / Orchestra/Symphony (9th) / Paleontology (6th) / Pediatrics (3rd) / Pediatric Cardiology & Heart Surgery (9th) / Pediatric Diabetes & Endocrinology (6th) / Pediatric Gastroenterology & GI Surgery (3rd) / Pediatric Neonatology (3rd) / Pediatric Nephrology (2nd) / Pediatric Neurology & Neurosurgery (7th) / Pediatric Oncology (3rd) / Pediatric Orthopedics (8th) / Pediatric Pulmonary (2nd) / Pediatric Urology (4th) / School of Criminal Justice (3rd) / Aerospace Engineering / Audiology / College of Medicine / College of Pharmacy / Creative Writing / Digestive Disease / Drama / Ear, Nose & Throat / Endocrinology / Environmental Engineering / Geriatrics / Kidney Disease / Medical Research / Neurology / Nursing Anesthesia / Nursing Midwifery / Online Bachelor Degrees, student engagement / Online Bachelor Degrees, student service and technology / Online Graduate Education / Online Graduate Education, faculty credentials / Online Graduate Nursing / Otolaryngology / Pharmacology / Psychiatry / Respiratory Disorders / School of Nursing, undergraduate / Speech, Language Pathology 1111 # H O T T E S T C O L L E G E I N A M E R I C A
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“While we are wowed by the excellent buildings …it is the landscape… that is making the university a cohesive place.” —The Campus Guide by Princeton Architectural Press
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acres of greenspace on Uptown campuses
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“These are campuses that are improving teaching and learning, producing research that makes a difference in communities, and revitalizing their
civic and academic missions.” — The Carnegie Foundation
300% increase in UC service learning courses since 2008
SERVICE OVER SURFING takes hundreds of University of Cincinnati students to destinations overseas, throughout the community and across the United States to volunteer during spring break. UC’s Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement, however, makes community engagement
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a year-round academic priority at UC, earning the university the 2015 Carnegie Foundation’s top Community Engagement Classification. All of UC’s undergraduate colleges offer service learning courses. More than 100 offerings involve nearly 3,500 students, including a new online course that provides transportation assistance to the elderly called Driving Community Connections, a facultystudent rebuilding effort following the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, and a faculty-student project called Village Life Outreach Project that brings health care and educational outreach to Tanzania.
Fetchlab research benefits four-legged friends THE HEARING OF CANINE SOLDIERS that have served in Afghanistan and the Middle East as well as canine Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) have become growing areas of expertise for Peter Scheifele, PhD, in the University of Cincinnati’s College of Allied Health Sciences. Recently the U.S. Army designated him its subject matter expert for working dog audiology. Scheifele first gained a national reputation for canine audiology, even appearing on The David Letterman Show, when he fitted a service dog with hearing devices and founded
the Facility for Education and Testing of Canine Hearing and Laboratory for Animal Bioacoustics (FETCHLAB for short). The lab recently tested a Dalmatian dog for hearing loss as the breed ranks No. 1 for hearing impairment among canines. FETCHLAB also has worked with otters, penguins, horses, sea horses and shark rays. UC is the first university in the nation to offer certificates in animal audiology as an outgrowth of this research. Ultimately, the work may benefit two-legged humans, too.
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For the past four seasons, the Cincinnati market has been 7th or higher for regular-season men’s basketball telecasts.
2015’s MARCH MADNESS marks the fifth consecutive NCAA tournament appearance by the University of Cincinnati Bearcats. UC men’s basketball team has been ranked in the men’s AP Top25 for 388 weeks—12th-most in the nation. In 2015, UC became one of only 11 teams to make the NCAA tournament in each of the last five years and in 2014 was the only FBS school to win conference championships in both football and men’s basketball. UC has had 30 different players receive All-American honors, including eight Consensus 1st-Team All-Americans.
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5 Teams with 4 Consecutive March Madness/Bowl Game Appearances Cincinnati Louisville Michigan State San Diego State Wisconsin
invested in athletics facilities since 2010
Bearcats Men’s Basketball Ranked in the AP Top 25 for 388 weeks – 12th most in the nation Among the Top 20 in NCAA Tournament appearances Among the Top 10 for Final Four appearances First to reach three consecutive National Title games
$300M
Bearcats in the NBA/ABA: Jim Ard / Lloyd Batts / Corie Blount / Tony Bobbitt / Ron Bonham / Pat Cummings / Ralph Davis / Derrek Dickey / Connie Dierking / Danny Fortson / Paul Hogue / Jim Holstein / DerMarr Johnson / Sean Kilpatrick / Art Long / Kenyon Martin / Jason Maxiell / Bob Miller / Ruben Patterson / Rick Roberson / Oscar Robertson / Kenny Satterfield / Lance Stephenson / Wayne Stevens / Tom Thacker / Jack Twyman / Nick Van Exel / Roland West / James White / Bob Wiesenhahn / George Wilson / Dontonio Wingfield 17 # H O T T E S T C O L L E G E I N A M E R I C A
F A S H I O N E D
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“For more than 10 years, Macy’s has greatly valued its UC partnership and the opportunity to support
DAAP’s outstanding success
in fashion and design.”
— Jim Sluzewski, senior vice president, Macy’s Corporate Communications & External Affairs
REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE gained in cooperative education jobs at more than 110 different employers gives fashion design students in UC’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning a jumpstart on careers before graduation. Many of the same co-op employers hire DAAP graduates after they graduate − among them Abercrombie & Fitch, Fossil Group and L Brands. The final stitch in the fashion design baccalaureate program each year is a capstone experience that puts the student designs on the runway in a sold-out,
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fully staged DAAP Fashion Show. Now in its 64th year and 10th year with Macy’s as the sole sponsor, the show dazzles with creativity and color, professional lighting, choreography, music, models and oftentimes big names like DAAP grad Althea Harper, who competed in TV’s Project Runway.
$2.2M
average combined earnings − fashion design co-op students (2014)
Top Employers of UC Fashion Design Co-ops: Abercrombie & Fitch / Chico’s FAS, Inc. / Aeropostale / L Brands / American Eagle Outfitters / Fossil Group, Inc. / Garan Incorporated / JCPenney / Azhand Shokohi / Tory Burch / Diane von Furstenberg 19 # H O T T E S T C O L L E G E I N A M E R I C A
UC FIRSTS
PROGRAMS OF STUDY (2014)
ACCOLADES
First program of cooperative education – Herman Schneider (1906)
Associate: 81
First oral polio vaccine – Albert Sabin
Master’s: 105 Professional (MD, JD, PharmD): 3
· Top tier of the country’s “Best National Universities, U.S. News & World Report, and up 27 spots in the past five years, more than any other university in the Top 130.
First electronic organ – Winston Koch
LIBRARIES
· Among the nation’s best colleges, eight consecutive years, The Princeton Review.
First use of YAG laser to remove brain tumor
13 locations
· No. 1 Return on Investment, PolicyMic.
First bachelor’s degree program in nursing
Holdings: 4.4 million volumes; 150,000 periodical titles; 1.3 million e-books
First observations leading to the National Weather Service – Cleveland Abbe First antihistamine, Benadryl – George Rieveschl
First emergency medicine residency program First safe anti-knock gasoline First degree program offered via satellite UC’S COLLEGES McMicken College of Arts and Sciences College of Allied Health Sciences
Baccalaureate: 114 Doctoral: 66
Use: 1.6 million visitors; 59,000 reference transactions; 180,000 items circulated STUDENT/FACULTY RATIO 15/1 ENROLLMENT (2014-2015) 43,691
Carl H. Lindner College of Business UC Clermont College
UC NOTABLES
College-Conservatory of Music
President and later Chief Justice William Howard Taft; Albert Sabin, developer of the oral polio vaccine; Nobel Peace Prize winner and U. S. Vice President Charles G. Dawes; Benadryl inventor and UC Foundation founder George Rieveschl; Pulitzer Prizewinning cartoonist Walt Handelsman; Doris Twitchell Allen, founder of Children’s International Summer Village; Astronaut Neil Armstrong; soprano Kathleen Battle; Cleveland Abbe, whose work at UC led to the National Weather Service; Eula Bingham, environmental scientist and head of OSHA; Marilyn Gaston, assistant surgeon general; author Thomas Berger; Prima Ballerina Suzanne Farrell; sports greats Sandy Koufax, Oscar Robertson, Jack Twyman and Tony Trabert; architect Michael Graves; artists Tom Wesselmann and Gilbert Young; Tony Award winner Faith Prince; Elwood Jensen, pioneer in breast cancer research
College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services College of Engineering and Applied Science College of Law College of Medicine College of Nursing James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy UC Blue Ash College Graduate School CAMPUS Total acreage: 473 Number of buildings: 117 Campus locations: 7
· Among the top 200 Global Universities, U.S. News & World Report. · Record-breaking number of National Merit/National Achievement Finalists – 170 total, August 2014. · Awarded Top Community Engagement Classification, from the Carnegie Foundation. · Among the nation’s top 13 colleges and universities for a “Focus on Student Success” (quality internships, experiential learning and cooperative education). · Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award, INSIGHT into Diversity Magazine. · First recipient, overall award for Innovation and Economic Prosperity University, Association of Public and Landgrant Universities (APLU). · No. 7 in the United States, International Student Barometer. · Best cost per victory in the nation in football, Forbes Magazine. · Best School Blood Drive Award, given by America’s Blood Centers, University of Cincinnati and Hoxworth Blood Center.
ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION Trending highlights the array of activities and outcomes at the University of Cincinnati, one of the nation’s top public research universities. Here you will see UC collaborating with business and community, expanding the boundaries of art and ideas, applying technology to society’s needs, and more. UC has made great strides in recent years, and Trending demonstrates how we have accelerated our advancement with focused, ambitious and achievable goals. ON THE COVER The ship-shaped Steger Student Life Center on the right and the classrooms of the Campus Recreation Center on the left frame the more historic lines of the Tangeman University Center with its modern skylight and iconic clock tower. The Steger Center was designed by Mario Violich of Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners in conjunction with Buzz Yudell and glaserworks. The rec center was designed by Thom Mayne and Kristina Loock. These buildings form a spine for UC’s MainStreet. Photo credit: Photo of classroom, page 6, by Sean Hughes. Photo on page 19 by David Sorcher © 2013.
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