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
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
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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