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The 2006-07 school year was a transition year for several of the athletic programs. The men's basketball team experienced some growing pains under first-year head coach Mick Cronin while both the football and women's basketball teams hired new coaches. With all of those things in mind here are the top-five newsworthy moments from the 2006-07 athletic year.… Post the First Comment

The date was January something, 2006. While sitting in Intro to Journalism class, my professor, the late great Albert Salvato, changed my life with a single question. "Does anybody want to come down to The News Record and be a reporter?" The first thing that came to mind was, "what the hell is The News Record?" Who would have thought 16 months later I would be The News Record's, the independent student newspaper at the University of Cincinnati, Editor in Chief.… 4 Comments

The University of Cincinnati student enrollment has increased to more than 36,500 students, which is a thousand more students than the 2006-07 school year. This is the biggest one-year increase in enrollment since 1979, as well as the largest UC enrollment since 1991 according to Caroline Miller, associate vice president for Enrollment Management.… Post the First Comment

While some University of Cincinnati students may have spent their summers trying not to think about the upcoming school year, students involved with UC Student Government were hard at work to make improvements and bring forth change to the school and community.… Post the First Comment

The News Record brings you a list of Welcome Week events to kick off the 2007-08 school year. September: 14 •Splash Bash Drive-In Movie at 10 p.m. at Campus Recreation Center. 16 •Taste of Uptown at 3 p.m. at Tangeman University Center. Plaza Ice Cream Social at 4:30 p.… Post the First Comment

After surviving 24 days of snakes, starvation, and no toilet, 23-year-old Michelle Yi has one more major feat to overcome: finding a job. The University of Cincinnati Fashion Design graduate was one of 19 competitors on the CBS hit show Survivor, which took place in Fiji and had its season finale Sunday, May 13.… Post the First Comment

If you do not know Brian Kelly, the University of Cincinnati head football coach, you might think he was running for president. Since he was hired December 3, 2006 he has spent so much time shaking hands, making public appearances and kissing babies you might think he was battling Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to get into the White House rather than battling West Virginia University's Rich Rodriguez, University of Louisville's Steve Kragthorpe and Rutgers University's Greg Schiano for Big East supremacy.… Post the First Comment

"If I can't play for the championship then I don't want to play," said J. Kelley Hall, the new head coach of the University of Cincinnati women's basketball team. It was this type of enthusiasm displayed by Hall that was undoubtedly one of the factors that led athletic director Mike Thomas to hiring the 48-year-old coach.… Post the First Comment

National attention is being sparked in Cincinnati by the establishment of a joint cancer center by area experts. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and University Hospital, three of the region's biggest names in cancer research, teamed up to strengthen an already well-established relationship, signing a memorandum of understanding to provide the scientific and intellectual resources needed to increase internationally significant cancer research.… Post the First Comment

What's black and white and read all over? Sure, it's not the funniest joke around, but two researchers in the engineering department are relying on jokes like this one to create a "bot" that can recognize humor. Julia Taylor, a doctoral student and Larry Mazlack, associate professor in the electrical and computer engineering department, have teamed up to put together the bot, which is actually software spread over several computers.… Post the First Comment