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!
Scaling Up a Mobile Platform Delivering Care to Pregnant Mothers and Children
Millions of women and children die every year from preventable causes that occur as a result of complications during pregnancy and the first months following delivery. Proven interventions can prevent two-thirds of newborn deaths and eighty percent of maternal deaths, but barriers to care prevent women from accessing critical screenings …
What Strategies Should El Roble Implement in Order to Best Facilitate the Integration of its Immigrant Childrin Within the Center?
El Roble is an afterschool program whose participants consists of nonimmigrant and immigrant children. Immigrants’ children that participate at El Roble confront educational and social impediments along with discrimination limiting their future success. Four main issues at El Roble are lack of support, lack of consistency in participant attendance, lack …
Report on Juvenile Recidivism in Allegheny County
In Allegheny County a juvenile is considered a recidivist if he/she reoffends while they are still under court supervision or within 2 years of their original case closure date. Therefore although it is now 2014, the most complete data with information on juvenile recidivism in the county was based on …
A Study on the Reasons Behind the Unavailability of Data on Human Trafficking in Kochi, Kerala
A. Introduction: Understanding Human Trafficking Human trafficking, after the illegal drug and arms trade, is the largest organized crime in the world today (UNODC, 2000). In 2000, as per the Palermo Protocol, the UN General Assembly adopted the definition of human trafficking to be, “…the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or …
A Report on Direct Benefit Transfers to Janalakshmi
In India, there are two prominent means of distributing welfare benefits, both of which are equally important. The first of which is through the central government. The Government of India is responsible for designing, and in conjunction with the state government, implementing Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) schemes. The other means …
Building Trust for Small Change
Product rationale Whenever I hear big words such as leadership, trust, responsibility, drive, promise, compassion, I try to generate pictures that would help me grasp the truth meaning of them, and oftentimes, fail. Understanding such big words sometimes demands a life marked by vicissitudes and rich experiences which I do …