OUR ROOTS, OUR RISE

WHAT STARTED IN 1819 as two small colleges in a frontier town became part of the University of Cincinnati. Kicking off its Bicentennial Celebration, UC now stands as a Carnegie Research 1, public university with international impact and a record enrollment for six consecutive years. Both the Medical College of Ohio and Cincinnati College received charters from the state of Ohio in January 1819 but the first classes were held at Cincinnati College on November 9 of the same year.

Opening enrollment– 1819: 70 students
Opening enrollment – 2018: 45,000 students

INNOVATIONS IN HEALTH

AN AUDACIOUS AND VISIONARY physician, Daniel Drake, created the Medical College of Ohio 200 years ago and spearheaded a teaching hospital. Both have grown into today’s University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and the UC Medical Center at UC’s Academic Health Center. Highlights of UC’s medical innovations include the first oral polio vaccine, pioneering the study of birth defects, the first heart-lung machine, the first university-based environmental health research facility, and the first medical laser laboratory. UC also holds international prominence in stroke treatment: developing a treatment protocol emulated around the world, creating the first regional stroke team, playing a lead role in testing the clot-busting drug tPA, the only FDA-approved medical treatment for stroke caused by a blood clot, and serving as the national coordinating center for StrokeNET, a network of 25 regional stroke centers across the nation.

STARS AT CENTER STAGE

THE BOLD DREAM that grew into the internationally renowned College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati began with a 13-year-old immigrant from Germany who arrived in Cincinnati in 1849. A single woman, Clara Baur opened her one-room music studio, teaching piano and voice in 1867. Later her Conservatory merged with the College of Music, and the consolidated school became part of UC in 1962. Across the nation and around the world, CCM alumni shine in the spotlight of dance, acting, music theory and performance, composing, conducting, voice, musical theatre and electronic media. UC’s BFA musical theatre program was the first in the nation and CCM remains the second-largest producer of Broadway performers in the United States. Clara’s dream lives on in nearly 1,350 students and 150 faculty members who perform in nearly 1,000 events at CCM each year. Just in time for CCM’s 150th anniversary, Clara’s great-great-great nephew Tom Baur and his wife Jeanne created a $1.3 million trust with most of it going toward scholarships.

DISCOVERY DRIVEN

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