Your monthly dose of research and inspiration
FINDINGS
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Something to celebrate: $207M in sponsored research awards
Yep. We’re all pretty ready to put 2020 in the rearview mirror. But we’d be remiss not to congratulate our researchers who captured sponsored awards in the last fiscal year.
Read our monthly feature for:
- By-the-numbers look at the awards for FY 2019-2020.
- Which colleges have increased their sponsored awards in FY20.
- How much our sponsored awards grew year over year.
Plus, meet some of our top award getters (pictured above) working across a variety of academic disciplines.
No surprise, many of the winning projects are interdisciplinary. Want proof that Next Lives Here at UC? Read on.
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New UC Ethics Bowl team grasps second place in its first-ever competition
Move over Northern Kentucky University and Indiana University. University of Cincinnati coming through.
For the first time, UC organized a team for the Central States Regional Ethics Bowl—and took 2nd Place! The team’s score qualified us for the 2021 National Competition next spring.
The team beat 14 others, including NKU and IU. UC fell only to reigning national champion Youngstown State University.
Inspired by the nationally televised “College Bowl,” which ran from 1958 to 1970, teams are challenged in this contest to decide how to proceed when faced with practical and professional ethical dilemmas, think anything from a case of plagiarism to the issues of ethical medicine or social issues like gun control. Rating criteria are based on intelligibility, focus on ethically relevant considerations, avoidance of ethical irrelevance and deliberative thoughtfulness.
Only the top scoring 36 teams in the regional ethics bowls qualify for nationals. Bravo, to our new UC Ethics Bowl Team, sponsored by UC's Ethics Center.
Coach: Daniel Mattox, studying for his doctorate in philosophy
Undergraduate team:
- Fabien Acher, A&S Philosophy
- James Baah, CEAS Computer Science & A&S Philosophy
- Emma Duhamel, A&S Philosophy & Interdisciplinary Studies
- Dom Duponty, A&S Chemistry & Philosophy
- Caitlin Powell, A&S Philosophy & Spanish
- Mae Rosenthal, A&S Philosophy
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Reminder: Internal funding applications due soon |
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Advancement Program Award
Up to $10,000
Proposals due Dec. 15.
Open to all UC faculty whose proposed activities fall within the areas of the arts, humanities and social sciences.
URC Graduate Student Stipend and Research Cost Program for Faculty—Student Collaboration
Up to $7,500
Proposals due Dec. 17
This program provides summer stipend support to outstanding graduate students plus funds to support related research costs working in collaboration with a UC faculty member.
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Researcher Conversation: Picture a Scientist
Beginning today, UC faculty, post-docs, grad students and research administrators are invited, through an exclusive arrangement, to stream a screening of the feature-length film “Picture a Scientist” from the comfort of their own home.
The film chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. Overcoming harassment, institutional discrimination and years of subtle slights, a biologist, a chemist and a geologist revolutionize the culture of science.
Watch the film today through Friday. Then join a virtual panel discussion 2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 11 on the film and UC’s workplace, moderated by UC’s Amy Lind, professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and director of the Taft Research Center. The panel includes
a UC engineer and a UC scientist, as well as two of the filmmakers/producers and one of the film's featured scientists.
The event is sponsored by the Office of Research, Taft Research Center and UC Women in Medicine & Science.
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TODAY: Dimensions webinar
Finding local research partners is now easier than ever. Dimensions contains awarded grant data from over 500 funders around the globe, amounting to over $1.7 trillion. It's 54 million patent records include geo-tagged assignees.
Attend an overview of Dimensions, how it works and how to use it, today from 2-3 p.m. and 7-8 p.m.
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Not-to-miss Research and Development events
Join the OoR on Zoom and sharpen your research skills with one of these upcoming training events:
1-5 p.m., Dec. 10
Noon to 1:30 p.m., Jan. 21
10-11:30 a.m., Jan. 26
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OoR doubles down on its Collaborative Research support
On Dec. 11 at noon, Associate Vice President for Research Jennifer Krivickas will host a Zoom webinar to discuss the Collaborative Research Advancement Program, an opportunity for up to $25,000 in internal support from the OoR.
The program is meant to encourage both internal and external collaboration; enable new teams and/or new lines of research and stimulate research that embraces intellectual diversity and addresses issues of increasing societal significance.
Associate VP Krivickas will answer questions about the two-stage application process, which first requires a two-page concept paper, due Feb. 3.
Up to fifteen finalists will then be invited to submit a full proposal and agree to a 10-minute presentation to discuss their proposed activities. This program is open to all UC faculty and up to eight projects will be chosen.
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Connecting Technology and Place in Cities of the Future |
The Office of Research and Digital Futures explore the Cincinnati community, placemaking, and together, imagine ways that Digital Futures can be a place where technology and community intersect for the betterment of society.
Sign up below for the virtual panel being held 11 a.m. to noon, Dec. 17, on Zoom.
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