{"id":47021,"date":"2025-06-10T09:13:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=47021"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:13:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:13:54","slug":"undergraduate-research-summer-learning-community-has-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2025\/06\/undergraduate-research-summer-learning-community-has-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Research Summer Learning Community has started"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Summer is here and that means the Undergraduate Research Summer Learning Community (URSLC)has begun.&nbsp; The kick-off session, held June 4th on the 4<sup>th<\/sup> Floor of Langsam brought together students from 55 different research areas for networking and community.&nbsp; The students discussed their research interests and upcoming opportunities over wonderful food featuring egg bake, potatoes, and homemade pastries provided by local business and award winning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodbypierre.com\/about\">Pierre Entities Catering<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/processed-28FBBD67-D88E-4E28-B222-38634E36F659-1200x675.jpeg\" alt=\"The 4th floor area of Langsam with many students sitting at the tables\" class=\"wp-image-47023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/processed-28FBBD67-D88E-4E28-B222-38634E36F659-1200x675.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/processed-28FBBD67-D88E-4E28-B222-38634E36F659-850x478.jpeg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After an overview of the program, Graduate Students and Presidential Fellows Adair McWilliams (Epidemiology), Damilola Odula (Philosophy), and Henry Levesque (Regional and Urban Planning) provided insight into their early days of research and how they thrive in the research environment.&nbsp; Research results in new knowledge, innovations and improved lives and requires a love of exploring the unknown, perseverance, passion, and embracing both failure and success.&nbsp; The graduate students encouraged the audience to dive into the passion, make time for processing information, and especially to make sure they also take care of themselves through the research experience.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/graduatestudent-v2-1200x675.jpeg\" alt=\"Undergraduate Research Summer Learning Community has started\" class=\"wp-image-47029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/graduatestudent-v2-1200x675.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/graduatestudent-v2-850x478.jpeg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The community meets Wednesdays in June and July from 9:30 to 11 am both in-person and via zoom. The upcoming sessions will cover mentorship, data management, ethics, ownership, presentations and research methods.&nbsp; If you are interested to participate, you can still <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.uc.edu\/research-teaching-support\/research-data-services\/UGRSLC.html\">register<\/a>.&nbsp; More information can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.uc.edu\/research-teaching-support\/research-data-services\/UGRSLC.html\">UC Libraries website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/processed-3746A3E7-05DF-4DAA-BFD4-7A1F4E4A0298-1200x675.jpeg\" alt=\"Image of Don Wittrock presenting to students with the triceracopter in the background\" class=\"wp-image-47025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/processed-3746A3E7-05DF-4DAA-BFD4-7A1F4E4A0298-1200x675.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/processed-3746A3E7-05DF-4DAA-BFD4-7A1F4E4A0298-850x478.jpeg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The URSLC is sponsored by UC Libraries and in collaboration with the TRIO McNair Scholars, University Honors Discover program, NSF Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation, and CCPS Undergraduate Research Program. The program is free and open to any undergraduate interested in research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Facilitators.jpg\" alt=\"head shots of six people who are the facilitators of the program\" class=\"wp-image-47022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Facilitators.jpg 960w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Facilitators-850x478.jpg 850w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Facilitators-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Facilitators-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Facilitators-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is here and that means the Undergraduate Research Summer Learning Community (URSLC)has begun.&nbsp; The kick-off session, held June 4th on the 4th Floor of Langsam brought together students from 55 different research areas for networking and community.&nbsp; The students &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2025\/06\/undergraduate-research-summer-learning-community-has-started\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279,109,73,31,13],"tags":[814,24,2524],"class_list":["post-47021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ceaslibrarynews","category-gmp-library","category-hsl-libnews","category-uc","category-uclibraries","tag-events","tag-research","tag-undergraduates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47030,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47021\/revisions\/47030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}