Students and community partners joined the Taft Research Center and Department of English for five days of workshops, hands-on-activities, and daily visits to local archives to learn how humanities scholars ethically tell stories from the materials writers, artists, and everyday people leave behind. Participants developed skills for researching and documenting objects and ephemera, tried their hand at critical, creative, and personal archival approaches used in Literary and Cultural Studies, Creative Writing, Rhetoric and Composition, and Professional Writing, and created their own archive of the week.

Schedule & Process
Students met in person each weekday 10am–4pm on UC's uptown campus, with morning and afternoon sessions (2.5 hours each) and a catered lunch break in between.  Time was split between the Taft Research Center and several local archives on and off-campus. There was no cost to attend, but applications were required. 

Application Process
This program was open to all Cincinnati area undergraduate students—all colleges, all campuses, and all majors. No previous research experience required. Two community members also joined the program. 

25 Cincinnati-area undergraduate students joined the Taft Research Center and Department of Sociology for five days of workshops and hands-on-activities to learn social science research methods. They had the opportunity to expand their research horizons and professional networks while gaining experience working with different methods of data collection and analysis. Participants received a certificate of completion, digital voice recorder, and transcription software at the end of the program.  

Schedule & Process
Students met in person each weekday 10am–4pm, May 5–9 on UC's uptown campus, with morning and afternoon sessions (2.5 hours each) and a catered lunch break in between. Time was split between Langsam Library and Taft Research Center. There was no cost to attend, but applications were required. 

Application Process
This program was open to all Cincinnati area undergraduate students—all colleges, all campuses, and all majors. No previous research experience required. Applications were due Friday, April 11 by 5pm, with notifications of acceptance announced on April 15.