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  • International Elite: UC Among World's Top 30 Design Programs

    BusinessWeek is out this week with its annual ranking of the international elite in design education. The University of Cincinnati is once again on the "A-List" of design programs. more

  • 2009 Design Rankings Just Out: UC Recognized for Prized Programs

    UC's prestigious programs in architecture, interior design and industrial design have earned (yet again) top rankings in an annual national survey of architecture and design employers (the people who do the hiring). more

  • VIDEO: New Hope for the Hated Hospital Gown

    Innovative design research takes all forms at the University of Cincinnati. That includes a recent effort by faculty and students to redesign the hated hospital gown. more

  • Three Distinguished Speakers to Visit DAAP on Nov. 4

    Nationally distinguished presenters will lecture at DAAP on Wednesday, Nov. 4. These lectures are free and open to the public. more

  • DAAP Faculty Member Teaches and Lectures On "Is Green the New Black?"

    DAAP's Adrian Parr has just returned from Canada where she taught and publicly lectured on the topic "Is Green the New Black?" She was also interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, that country's version of the BBC. more

  • VIDEO: First-Year Students Work With Architectural Building Blocks

    Students in the University of Cincinnati's nationally top-ranked architecture and interior design programs recently used large-scale cubes to learn lessons related to the concept of scale. more

  • Young Alumna Launches Her Own Swimwear Line Now Available in New York, Miami and Cincinnati

    Fashion design alumna Anne Pachan is recently out with her own swimwear line. It represents the most recent high-water mark in her successfully expanding career. more

  • New Book by DAAP Faculty Examines "Zero-Energy Design"

    In 2007, UC students and faculty designed and built a solar house that was exhibited in Washington, D.C., as part of the international Solar Decathlon. Now, a UC faculty member has literally written the book examining that event. It is the first book to comprehensively examine the Solar Decathlon event. more

  • Video: Tour UC's Transportation Track

    See Associate Professor Brigid O'Kane at work as well as design models from UC's transportation track, the first such track at a U.S. public university. The track is housed within the university's undergraduate industrial design program, which is ranked No. 3 in the nation. more

  • Fine Arts Alumna Receives Statewide Recognition

    DAAP fine arts alumna Margot Gotoff just received statewide recognition for her work as a glass artist and teacher. more

  • DAAP Alumnus Wins Competition Sponsored by the E.P.A.

    DAAP grad Dave Fleming was just named the winner of a national design competition sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. more

  • As Part of Architectural Legacy, DAAP Alums Grow Scholarship Fund

    An architectural scholarship fund is helping DAAP students. That fund, the Strauss-Roush Scholarship, is growing as alumni honor two architectural leaders in the region (Carl Strauss and Ray Roush) who mentored and led generations of UC students via the university's co-op program. more

  • Video: UC Students Create Nine Designs in 10 Hours

    Architecture and interior design students at UC took on a unique challenge: Creating nine designs in 10 hours. View the video with Jerry Larson to find out why. more

  • DAAP's Jay Chatterjee Receives National Recognition

    Jay Chatterjee, interim director, DAAP's School of Architecture and Interior Design, was recently honored by the Planning Accreditation Board. more

  • International Co-op Work Experiences Provide Student's Future Design Direction

    UC co-op work experiences in Iceland and Italy have provided fashion design student Andrea Sisson with a new direction for her coming career. more

  • UC Architecture Studies Led Alum to High-Flier Career

    Alum Tom Smedley, a U.S.Army commander of an aviation (helicopter) battalion, says that UC's architecture curriculum prepared him to become a problem solver in any environment - whether in the U.S., overseas, on the ground or in the air. more

  • From an Early Age, This Alum Had Focus

    When he was 5 years old, DAAP alum Steve Bono began his drive to be a toy maker. That's when he was the first child in his neighborhood with a new - and coveted - toy thanks to a neighbor who worked for a one-time Cincinnati toy maker. more

  • DAAP Students and Alums Win in the "Cincinnati Innovates" Awards

    A regional innovation competition, Cincinnati Innovates, recently awarded prizes - and prize money - to eight area creative inventors. Four of the eight prize winners were either students in or recent graduates of DAAP's top-ranked industrial design program. more

  • DAAP Exhibit of Ancient Earthworks on Display Locally Starting Sept. 26

    An ambitious DAAP project to virtually rebuild the Midwest's immense earthworks, structures built by ancient Native American cultures, will go on display locally, from Sept. 26, 2009, to Jan. 10, 2010. more

  • Live Well Design Project Named Finalist in IDEA Competition

    A project by UC faculty and students to design a better hospital gown recently made it to the finalist round in the prestigious International Design Excellence Awards, the Olympics of industrial design. more