Cincinnati, University of, is a state university in Cincinnati, Ohio. The university was founded in 1819 as the Cincinnati College and the Medical College of Ohio. In 1870, the Ohio General Assembly established it as a city university. The school began to receive municipal tax support in 1893. In 1977, Ohio made the university part of the Ohio State University system. The university has two-year branches at Clermont College in Batavia, Ohio, and Raymond Walters College in Blue Ash, Ohio.
Albert B. Sabin, a medical researcher at the University of Cincinnati, developed the first oral polio vaccine. Other research at the university produced the first antihistamine and the first antiknock gasoline. United States President William Howard Taft and U.S. Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Charles G. Dawes graduated from the Cincinnati College of Law. Other well-known alumni of the university include opera singer Kathleen Battle, author Thomas Berger, architect Michael Graves, trumpeter Al Hirt, and basketball players Jack Twyman and Oscar Robertson. The university’s athletic teams are called the Bearcats.
The university’s website at https://www.uc.edu/ offers additional information.
