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        <a  href="/news/uis-perspectives-put-your-education-work-uis-graduate-internships">UIS  PERSPECTIVES:  Put  your  education  to  work  with  UIS’  graduate  internships</a>
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        <div  class="newsletter-txt">The  following  is  an  excerpt  from  a  column  by  the  University  of  Illinois  Springfield  Director  of  Graduate  Public  Service  Internship  Program  Sherrie  Elzinga.  This  column  appeared  in  The  State  Journal-Register  on  June  20,  2021. 



June  graduation  celebrations  always  include  the  opportunity  to  congratulate  recent  college  graduates  on  their  undergraduate  degrees  and  pose  the  inevitable  questions  about  future  employment. </div>
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        <a  href="/news/innocent-mchenry-county-woman-represented-uis-illinois-innocence-project-walks-free-after-19">Innocent  McHenry  County  woman  represented  by  the  UIS  Illinois  Innocence  Project  walks  free  after  19  years  of  wrongful  imprisonment</a>
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        <div  class="newsletter-txt">The  Illinois  Innocence  Project  (IIP)  at  the  University  of  Illinois  Springfield  is  pleased  to  announce  its  client  Jennifer  McMullan  has  been  released  after  more  than  19  years  of  wrongful  imprisonment  for  a  murder  she  did  not  commit.  At  a  court  hearing  on  Wednesday,  June  16,at  the  McHenry  County  Courthouse,  the  State  vacated  McMullan’s  murder  conviction  and  sentence,  and  presented  a  plea  agreement  that  would  release  McMullan  that  day  with  her  sentence  considered  “time  served.”</div>
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        <a  href="/news/reaching-stellar-performing-arts-center-continues-entertain-central-illinois">Reaching  Stellar:  Performing  Arts  Center  continues  to  entertain  in  Central  Illinois</a>
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        <div  class="newsletter-txt">When  Sangamon  Auditorium  first  opened  its  doors  on  Feb.  21,  1981,  with  Hal  Holbrook’s  performance  of  “Mark  Twain  Tonight,”  it  became  a  valuable  arts  resource  for  the  surrounding  area.</div>
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        <a  href="/news/emmanuelle-yakana">Emmanuelle  Yakana</a>
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        <div  class="newsletter-txt">Hometown:  Gabon,  Central  AfricaMajor:  Public  AdministrationFuture  Plans:  Work  as  a  government  advisor  and  earn  a  master’s  degree</div>
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        <a  href="/news/after-18-exonerations-john-hanlon-retire-illinois-innocence-project">After  18  Exonerations,  John  Hanlon  To  Retire  From  Illinois  Innocence  Project</a>
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        <div  class="newsletter-txt">When  John  Hanlon  started  his  career  as  a  lawyer  in  1983,  he  knew  of  only  one  case  where  an  innocent  person  had  been  cleared  of  a  crime:  Sam  Shepphard,  the  Ohio  physician  exonerated  in  1966  of  killing  his  wife.</div>
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