Taft Research Center Celebrates Move to Edwards One with Special Event
at the University of Cincinnati has a new home in Edwards One, and is holding an opening ceremony at
5 p.m., Monday, Aug. 26
, to welcome visitors from the campus and community to tour the new space and hear about Tafts programs.
The new space in Edwards One will be a hub for research activities involving the humanities and liberal arts, said Adrian Parr, faculty chair of the center. The new premises mark a new phase in the history of the center - a place for public debate, the exchange of cutting-edge ideas, and a venue that also engages the research activities of scholars from across campus and the City of Cincinnati as a whole.
In addition to Parr, UC President Santa Ono and Taft Trustee Dudley Taft are scheduled to speak at the event. McMicken College of Arts & Sciences Dean Ronald Jackson will join them for the ribbon cutting ceremony.
The Taft Center was established to support and enhance both interdisciplinary and disciplinary work committed to the development of ideas and critical thinking. To this end, the Taft Center sponsors distinguished speakers, conferences, symposia, and interdisciplinary-research groups. The centers activities celebrate diversity in scholarship with an emphasis on the liberal arts.
The Taft Center is consistently one of the top-funded humanities research centers in the nation, and boasts an expansive range of research that is comparable to work performed at elite institutions.
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