Automation
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.
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Anthropocene 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.
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 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.
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