Student Projects
The Hart Leadership Program has a long history of exemplary student work, and we are proud to showcase here a selection of student research projects, internships, and honors theses dating back to 2011. Below, you can explore nearly 400 student projects, filtering by project type, Hart program affiliated with the project, thematic topics, project locations, and project years. The database does not provide the full text of students' projects, but it does provide abstracts of student work wherever available, as well as more information including students' class year and, when applicable, the name of the community partner organization a student worked with to conduct their internship or research. We will continue to expand the database as our students continue conducting phenomenal projects. In the meantime, use the search function below to explore our incredible students' work, and get inspired!
Poverty, Community and Conservation in Colorado: An Analysis of the Adaptive Challenges that Face Rural Colorado as it Makes its Way into a New Century Filled with Challenging Social and Environmental Issues
Policy Questions: How can the residents of Nucla, Naturita, and Telluride utilize the uranium conflict as a basis for a broader solution? How can they proactively establish a long standing intercommunal partnership to increase the economic capacity of the region while still addressing the legitimate concerns surrounding the practice of …
Recognizing Persons Trafficked for Forced Labor as Victims of Human Trafficking: Rethinking Victimhood
PROBLEM STATEMENT: The stereotypes of human trafficking held by large sections of the public and law enforcement officers in the United States today only identify young, and in most cases, white, girls who are sexually exploited as victims of human trafficking. This ignores more covert instances of human trafficking for …
Access to Essential Reproductive Healthcare in North Carolina: The Influence of Politics
Policy Problem Statement On January 1, 2000, North Carolina’s Contraceptive Equity law went into effect. For the past fourteen years, the law has mandated that North Carolina insurance plans provide coverage for contraception. This legal mandate on insurance plans is independent of the recent Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Supreme Court …
Assessing the Impact of E-Learning Platforms in Selected SEWA Schools in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
What is E-Learning? E-learning is broadly defined as “learning which utilizes web-based communication, collaboration, multimedia, knowledge transfer, and training to support learners’ active learning without time and space barriers” (Lee et al 2009, 2). Blended E-Learning can be defined as a mix “between any form of instructional technology…with classroom teaching”. …
A Summary of Factors Predicting Housing and Income Outcomes of Clients Applying for Disability Benefits
Homeless people in San Diego have disproportionate rates of disability – 65% of homeless adult individuals in the San Diego region had a disabling condition, compared to only 42% of homeless individuals nationally and 19% of all U.S. individuals nationally (Development, 2010) (Homeless, 2012). St. Vincent de Paul Village (the …
Evaluation of Assessments and Educational Tools Associated With Child Abuse and Neglect
This project was conducted over the course of an 8-week internship with Nurses for Newborns, with funding from Duke University’s Hart Leadership Program. The purpose of the research was to look at how well the newly introduced AAPI and Nurturing Parenting (NP) tools have been implemented in the Tennessee NFN …