Teaching during a pandemic when classes are mostly virtual is challenging for professors and students alike. When the subject is based solely on visual learning, there is an additional level of potential disconnect. 

When COVID-19 caused the university to shut down last March, very few people would have predicted that we would still be in this crisis one year later. These unprecedented circumstances meant that University of Cincinnati (UC) students and faculty had to adjust to keep everyone safe while al…

Sarah Saadeh, a Palestinian and Filipina second-year political science and international affairs student at the University of Cincinnati (UC), remembers walking home from school one day in the eighth grade on 9/11. Saadeh was being followed by a group of teenage boys on bikes shouting at her…

After two years of deep contemplation and six months of disciplined training, recent University of Cincinnati (UC) graduate Mark Dudek announced his newest endeavor. “I will be attempting to walk across America!” he wrote humbly in an Instagram post in November. The 39 comments on his dramat…

The moment BrieAnna Reedus, a third-year nursing student at the University of Cincinnati, is finished with her schoolwork for the day, she quietly sits on her living room couch with a hook in one hand and acrylic yarn in the other. While she swiftly crochets, the room slowly fills up with th…