Wasatch Water: Ecosystem Services and the American Dream
This Praxis Lab will explore the notions of ecosystem services and the American dream with a special focus on water resources along the Wasatch Front.
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Environmental Health and the Community
This Praxis Lab explored how modern industrial life exposes individuals to toxic compounds from inception, with repercussions across all organ systems, including chromosomes, the very building blocks of life.
Read MoreThe Valley as Laboratory: Steps Toward a Restorative Urbanism
In this Praxis Lab, students explored the ways cities, like our own, can thrive by focusing on their strengths and addressing underlying challenges. Using the city’s physiology as a metaphor, students diagnosed issues and developed solutions to restore vitality to local spaces, applying principles such as urban acupuncture and urban metabolism.
Read MoreFueling Up
This Praxis Lab examined the science, engineering, policy, and societal impacts of energy systems, with a focus on balancing economic growth, environmental sustainability, and social equity.
Read MoreGlobalization and inequality: Precarious lives in Utah
In a world shaped by deepening globalization and rising inequality, the divides between the super-rich and the rest of society have only widened. This Praxis Lab explored the intersection of these global trends with two local constituencies in the Salt Lake Valley: immigrants and poor white Utahans.
Read MoreClimate Change: Science, Stakeholders and Social Investment
This Praxis Lab explored the complicated intersections between global climate change and financial markets. Increasingly, the financial industry is being asked to incorporate climate metrics into their research programs.
Read MoreResponsible AI
This Praxis Lab explored the ethical dilemmas and unintended consequences of AI across key domains, including bias and discrimination, radicalization and polarization, privacy and surveillance, environmental sustainability, and labor.
Read MoreAmerica’s Inland Sea: Impacts of a Shrinking Great Salt Lake
This Praxis Lab will provide students with foundational knowledge of the geology, geography, and ecology of the lake, as well as relevant human and non-human factors and processes that impact this complex system.
Read MoreBehaving Like Animals
This Praxis Lab explored the deep connections between humans and animals, challenging the traditional distinctions that set us apart. By tracing the historical roots of evolutionary theory and experimental physiology, students examined how our similarities and differences with other species shape our understanding of behavior, ethics, and identity.
Read MoreBioethics
In 2005, ten Honors students convened in a Think Tank to consider the ethical implications of new genetic technologies. With the guidance of Dr. Ray Gesteland, Dr. Peggy Battin, and Utah’s leading geneticists, they explored dilemmas in genetic research and discussed how available science and technology might be ethically applied to benefit everyone.
Read MoreQuality of Life
This Think Tank Team spent a great deal of time outside of the classroom, visiting Wasatch Commons co-housing and the new Daybreak project, and documenting interviews with refugees through the International Rescue Committee.
Read MoreCrossing the Religious Divide
With a charge to understand and research the religious divide in Salt Lake City, a group of diverse Honors students developed a pilot program to give youth an interfaith experience during their formative years. Its purpose was to demonstrate the value of interfaith cooperation and communication when confronting differences with peers.
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