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University of Cincinnati celebrates International Education Week

November 18, 2024

International Education Week, November 18-22, showcases study abroad around the globe. The annual event is sponsored in the United States by the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education. At the University of Cincinnati, a slate of student events will celebrate UC’s 4,616 international students, who make up 8.7% of this fall’s record enrollment.

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Wrongful conviction: ‘If it can happen to me it can definitely...

November 8, 2024

Richard Horton and Nancy Smith, two exonerees of the Ohio Innocence Project at UC Law, speak with WYSO about wrongful conviction. OIP was founded in 2003 and is continuing its initial purpose: working to free every person in Ohio who has been convicted of a crime they didn’t commit.

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First-generation students find a home at UC

November 7, 2024

The University of Cincinnati celebrates first-gen students, the Bearcats who are the first in their families to attend college. They bring new perspectives to student life and account for about 1 of every 5 students on campus. Nov. 8 is First Generation College Student Day, celebrated across the nation.

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The debate over the death penalty

October 30, 2024

WVXU Cincinnati Edition host Lucy May Interviewers Pierce Reed, director of policy and engagement for the Ohio Innocence Project at UC Law as part of a discussion on the death penalty. UC Law will host a Nov. 1 roundtable on the topic featuring former Ohio death row inmate Lamont Hunter, his attorney Erin Gallagher Barnhart,an assistant federal public defender and Dr. Robert J. Norris, a criminologist at George Mason University.

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What is exoneration for individuals wrongly convicted of a crime?

October 17, 2024

Tara Rosnell, chair of the Ohio Innocence Project's Board of Advocates, spoke recently with WYSO public radio station about how exoneration works for individuals wrongly convicted for crimes they did not commit. OIP at UC Law helped 42 people secure their freedom. The group of clients collectively spent more than 800 years behind bars for crimes they didn’t do.

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Voices of Injustice share stories of wrongful conviction on a...

October 15, 2024

Ohio Innocence Project at UC Law exonerees Michael Sutton, Laurese Glover, Ruel Sailor and Charles Jackson share a painful journey. The men helped formed the advocacy group Voices of Injustice for those wrongfully convicted. The group's performance, 'The Lynchings Among Us' was featured by public radio's WYSO in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

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