Environmental Exposure & Health: Analyzing Estimates through Artificial Intelligence
Use Salt Lake City as your lab to explore how AI and environmental data can uncover the hidden health effects of air quality and climate.
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Planets, Pedagogy, and Partnerships: Shedding Light on Dark Matter
The Planets, Pedagogy, and Partnerships Praxis Lab provided Honors students with a unique opportunity to explore astronomy, teaching methods, and pedagogy while directly engaging with sixth-grade students.
Read MoreEnergy & Sustainability: Western Style
ThisThinkTank was grounded in the observation that a revolution in renewable energy systems is emerging quickly upon the world scene and that Western North America is superbly well positioned to participate in its development.
Read MoreWallace Stegner and Western Lands
In 2008-2009, nine students interviewed residents and officials from San Juan and Grand counties as well as federal land managers and scientists. We heard from diverse experts and stakeholders and conducted extensive background research.
Read MoreNarratives of the Great Salt Lake
The Narratives of the Great Salt Lake Think Tank was fortunate to have academy award winning producer Geralyn Dreyfous as a team instructor. She was instrumental in helping students in their efforts to tell their own stories about the Great Salt Lake.
Read MoreWorlds Apart: Utah’s Urban Rural Divide
This Praxis Lab examined the growing social, political, and economic divide between urban and rural communities, both nationally and within Utah. Students explored the unique challenges facing rural areas—such as job loss and population decline—while also considering the policy and cultural differences shaping urban centers like Salt Lake City.
Read MoreAutomation
This Praxis Lab explored the societal implications of automation, from the replacement of cashiers with digital kiosks to the predicted obsolescence of entire professions in the coming decades.
Read MoreAnthropocene Now: Utah Snow, Climate Change & Social Resilience
This Praxis Lab examined the Wasatch Front as a case study for global climate transformation, comparing Utah’s changing snowpack with trends in the Himalayas, Alps, and Andes.
Read MoreCanyonlands Competition
Canyonlands National Park surrounds the confluence of the Green and Colorado rivers in southeast Utah.
Read MoreWasatch 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.
Read MoreEnvironmental 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.
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