Photo Gallery: UC's 'Research & Innovation Week' showcases extraordinary work
UC celebrated its current innovative research and broad societal impact from the last 200 years during a week of symposiums, conferences and entertaining performances
Photos by Joseph Fuqua II and Colleen Kelley/UC Creative Services
UC's Research & Innovation Week kicked off a Bicentennial celebration showcasing the impactful, imaginative, and innovative work researchers at UC are accomplishing.
The week included many events that engaged both the campus and larger community. As part of the ongoing opioid crisis affecting communities and families across the country, UC's Office of Research hosted a panel discussion, which included local dignitaries and New York Times bestseller J.D. Vance at the 1819 Innovation Hub titled “Resolving to Save Lives: Partnerships for the Goal of Ending the Opioid Epidemic.”
On the other side of campus in UC's Nippert Stadium, Jiaqi Ma, an assistant professor of civil engineering in UC's College of Engineering and Applied Science, demonstrated an autonomous vehicle. To a crowd of spectators and local elementary students, Ma described ways to implement both driverless cars and a smart road system that allows cars to communicate with traffic lights and other vehicles.
The week of events — including a Louder Than a Bomb poetry slam contest — highlighted UC's inclusivity, innovation and the impact UC's research has on Cincinnati, the region and beyond — all of which are important elements of the university's Next Lives Here strategic direction.
Recent Ohio Innocence Project exonerees Ricky Jackson and Nancy Smith discuss the events that led to their cases being featured in "Blind Injustice," an opera coming to Cincinnati this summer. The UC College of Law's OIP is led by Mark Godsey, at right, who joined them to present inside Nippert Stadium as part of R&I week at UC. photo/Joseph Fuqua II/UC Creative Services
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William Portman III, chair of UC's Board of Trustees, discusses efforts to end the opioid epidemic. photo/Colleen Kelley/UC Creative Services
James Canfield, assistant professor of sociology in UC's College of Allied Health Sciences, discusses the impact of the opioid crisis on families and communities in our region. photo/Colleen Kelley/UC Creative Services
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UC aerospace engineering drones are demonstrated to local Cincinnati elementary school students in Nippert Stadium during R&I Week. photo/Joseph Fuqua II/UC Creative Services
UC's R&I Week featured a panel discussion on the opioid crisis. From left, Angela Clark, Lori Criss, Lisbet Hope Portman and author J.D. Vance. photo/Colleen Kelley/UC Creative Services
Local elementary school children get a close look at an autonomous vehicle in UC's Nippert Stadium during R&I Week. photo/Joseph Fuqua II/UC Creative Services
Pat Limbach, vice president for UC's Office of Research spoke during the presidential kick-off for Research & Innovation Week in UC's 1819 Innovation Hub. photo/Joseph Fuqua II/UC Creative Services
J.D. Vance, New York Times bestselling author, discusses his new nonprofit, "Our Ohio Renewal," working on the opioid epidemic and other socio-economic challenges that he himself grew up with and that Ohio families face today. photo/Colleen Kelley/UC Creative Services
At UC's R&I Hutton Ethics Lecture keynote speaker, Dr. Benjamin Wilfond from Seattle Children's Research Institute, asked, "Why does medical research and clinical work have to exist separate from one another?" photo/Colleen Kelley/UC Creative Services
From left, Benjamin Wilfond, MD, Holly Bante, assistant VP of research in UC's COM and Dr. Richard Ittenbach from CCHMC, at the Hutton Ethics Lecture in UC's COM. photo/Colleen Kelley/UC Creative Services
Two student inventors give an elevator pitch to a judge at UC's R&I event in the Campus Recreation Center. photo/Joseph Fuqua II/UC Creative Services
Student inventors give an elevator pitch to a judge at UC's R&I event in the Campus Recreation Center. photo/Joseph Fuqua II/UC Creative Services
Local Cincinnati elementary school students try their hand at flying a drone in Nippert Stadium during R&I Week. photo/Joseph Fuqua II/UC Creative Services
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Featured image at top: Dr. Jessica Kropczynski spoke to elementary school students at Nippert Stadium during UC's Research & Innovation Week. photo/Josph Fuqua II/UC Creative Services
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