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4 unusual facts about University of Cincinnati


Austin Wright

Austin McGiffert Wright (1922 Yonkers, New York – April 23, 2003 Cincinnati) was a novelist, literary critic and professor emeritus of English at the University of Cincinnati.

Constitutional theory

William Howard Taft (b. 1858 - d. 1930), 10th Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930); 27th President of the United States (1909–1913); Kent Professor of Constitutional Law and Legal History, Yale Law School, Yale University (1913–1921); Dean and Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati Law School; Solicitor General of the United States

John 'Dusty' King

A graduate of the University of Cincinnati, Everson travelled the country working a variety of jobs, such as chauffeuring motorcars from Detroit to Cincinnati, lumberjacking in New Mexico, and working as a ranch hand in Arizona.

Municipal college

Other historical municipal colleges and universities include Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, the University of Louisville, the University of Cincinnati, Wichita State University, University of Toledo, University of Nebraska-Omaha, the University of Akron and Wayne State University in Detroit.


2010–13 Big Ten Conference realignment

Media attention focused on comments that were interpreted as slurs against Catholics and Notre Dame, plus digs at former Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema, the Southeastern Conference, the University of Cincinnati, and Kentucky's two major state universities of Kentucky and Louisville.

Ali Jarbawi

Dr. Jarbawi joined the Faculty of Political Science at Birzeit University in 1981, after receiving his PhD in Political Science from the University of Cincinnati, and was awarded Professorship in 1996.

Arminda Schutte

Some of her US students achieved such recognition as national and world-wide awards for composition, performances on local television and radio, acceptances to The Juilliard School and the graduate division of Indiana University, the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati and subsequent faculty positions in colleges, universities and the New World School of the Arts.

Art Long

A 6'9", 250 pound power forward out of the East High School and University of Cincinnati who also attended Independence Community Junior College, Dodge City Community College in Kansas and Southeastern Community College in Iowa, Long was not drafted but both the Portland Trail Blazers and Sacramento Kings signed him as a free agent in 1999, though he was waived before ever playing a game for either.

Artrell Hawkins

Hawkins attended the University of Cincinnati, where he majored in business and lettered in football for four years (1994-1997) as a defensive back and kick returner under head coach Rick Minter.

Austrian Studies Association

As of 2012, its editors are Todd Herzog (University of Cincinnati) and Hillary Hope Herzog (University of Kentucky); book review editor is Joseph W. Moser (Randolph-Macon College), and the editorial board includes prominent Austrianists and Germanists from the U.S., UK, Canada, Austria, and Germany representing a variety of area studies.

Big East Conference

Old Dominion will also play field hockey in the league, while Cincinnati will play women's lacrosse.

Bill Seitz

After graduating from the University of Cincinnati, Seitz worked as a member of the Cincinnati Board of Education, and as a Green Township Trustee.

Boris Podolsky

In 1935, he took a post as professor of mathematical physics at the University of Cincinnati.

Carl Bouldin

He played college baseball and college basketball for the University of Cincinnati and was a member of the NCAA Championship-winning 1960–61 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team.

E. J. Biggers

Biggers started all 12 games for the Broncos, and made his first career reception (for a touchdown) against the University of Cincinnati in the inaugural International Bowl.

Gifu Pharmaceutical University

Since then, it has set up exchange program's with the pharmacy program at both the University of Cincinnati in Ohio and the University of Florence, which were started in 1991 and 1993, respectively.

Great Midwest Conference

It was formed in 1990 with six members--Cincinnati and Memphis State (now Memphis) from the Metro Conference; UAB from the Sun Belt Conference; Marquette and Saint Louis from the Midwestern Collegiate Conference (now the Horizon League), and independent DePaul.

Guy Stern

After teaching at Columbia, he received an assistant professorship at Denison University in Ohio, and was later professor and head of the department for German Language and Literature at the University of Cincinnati in 1963.

Inez Beverly Prosser

After growing up in Texas, Prosser was educated at Prairie View Normal College, the University of Colorado and the University of Cincinnati.

Isaac Joslin Cox

Between 1896 and 1906, Professor Cox was employed at the San Antonio Academy as instructor and vice-principle, and instructor in history at the University of Cincinnati, where he was afterward assistant professor.

Lance Stephenson

On June 30, Andy Katz of ESPN.com reported that Stephenson signed a financial aid agreement with the University of Cincinnati, and he joined the Bearcats for the 2009–10 season.

Lawson Wulsin

Lawson Reed Wulsin (born June 17, 1951) is a professor of psychiatry and family medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and is a practicing Psychiatrist for the Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Leeman Bennett

After only one year in the Steel City, Bennett accepted the offensive backs coaching position under Homer Rice at the University of Cincinnati in 1967, then was promoted to offensive coordinator the following year.

Louis Bouche

He taught at the Art Students League in New York, University of Cincinnati, and Drake University.

Loyola Ramblers

The 1962-1963 men's basketball team, led by coach George Ireland, won the 1963 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, by defeating the University of Cincinnati, 60-58, in the title game.

Mark P. Painter

He went on to the University of Cincinnati, where he was elected president of the student body in 1969.

Orie Solomon Ware

He was graduated from the private academy of Prof. George W. Dunlap, at Independence, Kentucky, in 1899, and from the law department of the University of Cincinnati at Cincinnati, Ohio, LL.B.

Ray Oliver

He transferred to the University of Cincinnati in 1982, and while sitting out the ’82 season under transfer rules, he became interested in strength training under UC head football coach Mike Gottfried.

Rex Hadnot

He had a season-high 19 knockdown blocks against Southern Miss, and also had double-digit knockdown blocks against Cincinnati (12), South Florida (17) and Louisville (11).

Santa Lucía, Intibucá

In the 1990s, the University of Cincinnati and the non-profit Shoulder to Shoulder sponsored a building program for a clinical complex on the northeastern edge of the town.

Sunflower revolution

The event is sponsored by the James J. and Joan A. Gardner Center for Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders at the University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute a part of UC HealthUniversity of Cincinnati.

The Keg of Nails

The Keg of Nails is a traveling trophy in college football, awarded since 1929 to the winner of games between the Universities of Louisville (U of L) and Cincinnati (UC), cities now connected by Interstate 71.

Tom Dandelet

From 1931 to 1934, Dandelet coached at Marshall, where he compiled an 18–16–2 record despite being underfunded and out-manned often in the Buckeye Conference, which included the University of Cincinnati, Ohio University, the University of Dayton, Miami University and Ohio Wesleyan University.

Zhawar Kili

Richard A. Beck, a geologist at the University of Cincinnati informed the Department of Defense that he could identify the rocks in a videotape Osama bin Laden released in October 2001 from a field trip he had made to Khowst.


see also

Charles Phelps Taft Research Center

Originally, the fund supported the departments of Literature, Language, Philosophy and History at the University of Cincinnati, together with Economics and Mathematics.

Dayes

Hylton Dayes, men's soccer coach at the University of Cincinnati

James Tocco

In addition to his itinerary, Mr. Tocco is Eminent Scholar/Artist in Residence at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music and professor of piano at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, Germany.

Joel Dolinski

After earning a Master's of Education degree in educational foundations December 2001 from the University of Cincinnati, Dolinski spent three years (2002, 2003, 2004) working in athletic administration with the Bearcat basketball team and Coach Bob Huggins before returning to coaching on the football field.

Montgomery, Ohio

Tony Yates, former University of Cincinnati basketball champ and coach for UC Bearcats

Samuel Hannaford

George B. Cox House, one-time home to renown Cincinnati political boss George Barnsdale Cox, and later the longtime home to the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity at the University of Cincinnati.

Van Wormer

Van Wormer Library, building at the University of Cincinnati, United States