The Columbus Dispatch: If abortion banned in Ohio…
April 27, 2022
Sociologist Danielle Bessett writes guest column on potential abortion ban in Ohio.
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Inside Higher Ed: Understanding Abortion Selection
December 9, 2021
UC abortion care research featured on Inside Higher Ed's Medical Minute
UC study: abortion care hurdles, considerations by Ohioans
November 17, 2021
UC study says Ohioans consider other factors aside from location for abortion care.
UC sociology professor honored with national mentor award
October 25, 2021
UC associate professor of Sociology Danielle Bessett has received the 2021 Society of Family Planning Mentor Award. The award recognizes scholars who have dedicated their work to helping lead the next generation of researchers in the field of family planning.
With the flip of a tassel, A&S grads celebrate success
April 30, 2021
By: Joí Dean UC’s College of Arts and Sciences salutes this year’s more than 1,000 graduates, who completed their fourth-year studies in the face of a pandemic and prevailed to celebrate in the first in-person commencement in more than a year. Here, A&S 2021 seniors reflect on their experiences, and how A&S helped them on their individual paths to success.
Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on...
March 22, 2021
Event: March 31, 2021 7:00 PM
Event to highlight vaccine hesitancy and how we can use philosophy, history and other humanistic approaches to deepen our understanding of science.
UC to host symposium on socially just community research
March 2, 2021
Event: March 5, 2021 9:30 AM
On Friday, March 5, The Cincinnati Project (TCP) will host its seventh-annual symposium titled “The Art and Science of Socially Just Community Partnered Research,” sponsored by UC’s College of Arts and Sciences and The Taft Research Center. Director of the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) Mohan Dutta will deliver the keynote speech. Based in New Zealand, CARE is a global organization dedicated to developing community-based solutions for social change, advocacy and activism, inspired by the conviction that health is a human right. Founded in 2016, TCP unites researchers from UC’s College of Arts and Sciences with community partners to benefit marginalized communities in Cincinnati, tackling economic, race, gender and health issues. Past TCP research has focused on high eviction rates in Hamilton County, resulting in city legislation to protect the rights of renters through an eviction prevention plan. In addition to the keynote speaker, the symposium will include discussion panels from area organizations such as Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME), the Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio, the Center for Closing the Health Gap, and UC faculty researchers. Topics will include ways in which community-based research can be conducted in socially just ways, in order to benefit the communities it is designed to serve. The symposium will be held virtually via Zoom from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., and is free and open to the public. For more information or to register, please visit The Cincinnati Project.
My #UCFirstGen Story: Karrington Rainey, A&S ‘23
November 6, 2020
Karrington Rainey is a student in the University of Cincinnati’s College of Arts and Sciences, studying sociology. Karrington is a pioneer in her family as a first-generation college student.
A&S doctoral student receives P.E.O. Scholar Award
October 15, 2020
Shaonta’ is a Black Christian millennial scholar. These intersecting aspects of her identity inform the way she conducts and makes sense of her research. Her dissertation project, Unapologetically Black and Unashamedly Christian: Exploring the Complexities of Black Millennial Christianity, looks “specifically at how religion plays a role in how young Black Christians are making sense of racial inequality and how they go about responding to some of the racist conditions that they may experience.”
UC offers new social justice, Latin American studies degrees
October 7, 2020
University of Cincinnati students can now enroll to earn a Bachelor’s degree in two new humanities programs: Social Justice, and Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies, offered through UC’s College of Arts and Sciences.
WCPO: UC researcher examines whether extremist groups among...
June 2, 2020
Extremists could be among protesters and instigating violence in Cincinnati.
Littisha Bates named to A&S inclusive excellence leadership post
May 4, 2020
UC Faculty Awards 2020: Littisha Bates
April 8, 2020
When Littisha Bates came to UC in 2009, right out of graduate school at Arizona State University, the PhD sociology researcher was part of a cohort of three new faculty members, all underrepresented scholars. “We were the three musketeers,” she says.
Cincinnati Project symposium scheduled for March 6
March 2, 2020
Event: March 6, 2020 10:00 AM
UC will host the sixth-annual symposium on The Cincinnati Project with a focus on improving affordable housing in the city.
Guidebooks or grandmas? Where most moms get their pregnancy...
November 25, 2019