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Quackenbush, Cameron | The Great Salt Dustbowl: the Impacts of a Drying Ecosystem | The Salt Lake Valley faces a dire environmental situation: the drying of the Great Salt Lake (GSL). As state and local water authorities push forward with plans to further dam and divert the single largest input to the GSL, it is crucial to acknowledge the implications of a drying lake bed for the W... | | 2019 |
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Thorne, Samanta | Effects of Bribery and Terrorism to 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics' Profitability | The purpose of this paper is to analyze effects that bribery and the 9/11 terrorist attacks had on the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic games' profitability. More specifically in terms of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee's (SLOC) operating budget and how the two events affected committee actions to... | | 2019 |
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Johnson, Christianna | Diverse Neighborhoods, Food Access, and Urban Agriculture: a Case Study of Four Community Gardens in Salt Lake City | Community gardens have been shown to increase food security as well as develop social capital in an urban setting. Several socioeconomic factors (including age, education, annual household income, and more) have been demonstrated to substantially affect perceptions of benefits from participating in ... | Food access; Community gardens; Urban agriculture; Planning | |
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Longino, Erika | Field guide for the inquisitive urban ecologist | This thesis consists of an independent mixed-media publication, or zine, which explores five specific case studies that demonstrate urban ecology. These projects exemplify urban ecological thinking and can be used as a field guide to understanding the urban landscape in Salt Lake City, Utah. These ... | Urban ecology (Sociology); City planning - Environmental aspects | 2014-12 |
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Johnson, Valerie E. | Spiritualism in Salt Lake City newspapers from 1920 to 1930 | After World War I, a religious fervor known as Spiritualism spread across Europe and America. Spiritualism was characterized by the use of seances, psychics, automatic writing, mediums, and spirit photographs to prove the existence of spirits and the afterlife. It was especially popular with soldier... | Communication | 2013-05 |
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Stephan, Chandler | Family and Urban Structures as Determinants of Income Mobility Differences in Salt Lake | Income mobility is the measure of the difference between a child's income and their parent's income. A higher rate of mobility is indicative of a greater ability to positively change income over generations while a lower rate means there is less mobility. A higher rate of mobility can reduce the amo... | | 2017 |
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Hadfield, Nicholas | Human pathways to the Great Salt Lake | How is the Great Salt Lake connected to our sense of place as residents of the Salt Lake Valley? This thesis seeks to explore the Great Salt Lake's spiritual, environmental, and economic importance to past, present, and future inhabitants of the Salt Lake Valley. To do so, the paper explores differ... | City planning - Utah; Great Salt Lake (Utah) | 2016-04 |
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Gilbert, Henry | Development of a Power over Ethernet (POE) Airu Sensor | Poor air quality has been linked to both health and economic concerns, and is a growing research topic in Salt Lake City. The AQ&U program at the University of Utah strives to develop a large network of low-cost air quality sensors (AirU's) to study air pollution throughout the Salt Lake valley. Man... | | 2020 |
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Fernandez, Megan E. | Preserving the Great Salt Lake: integrating low impact development for a sustainable future | The Great Salt Lake (GSL) faces significant challenges due to declining water levels, exacerbated by human activities and a variety of environmental factors. This research explores the potential of Low Impact Development (LID) as a solution to mitigate the impact of urban water use on the GSL's heal... | | 2024 |
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Safiullah, Samah | The Social and Historical Reproduction of Japantown/Nihonmachi in Salt Lake City, Utah | My honors thesis is a historical, theoretical, and methodological approach to understanding the social and physical formation of Japantown and Japantown Street in Salt Lake City. I am interested in the formation of a specific ethnic enclave and micro-neighborhood which once existed. My thesis will a... | | |
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Dave Buhler | Empowering inclusivity: assessing the necessity and impact of language access plans in local governments | | | 2024 |
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Bunker, Kerrigan | Understanding the current State of food-based mutual aid in Salt Lake City for community resilience | Salt Lake City experienced a growth in food-related mutual aid networks throughout the pandemic that sought to provide food to those without. But now we are approaching the end of the third year of a world with COVID-19, the current state of mutual aid initiatives varies. The current study seeks to ... | | 2023 |
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Millar, Thomas | Center lines, turn lanes and bicycle infrastructure : bikeways in the United States and Salt Lake City's 1700 South corridor | Continuous and well-designed bicycle infrastructure plays an essential role in encouraging people to see and use the bicycle as a legitimate form of transportation and not only for recreation. In Salt Lake City, a common roadway striping design end bicycle lanes prematurely, requiring bicyclists to ... | Bicycle lanes - Utah - Salt Lake City; Bicycle lanes - United States | 2013-05 |
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Rasmussen, Katie | Awareness and Access to Support Resources Among Refugee Women in Salt Lake City Experiencing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence | This paper addresses the complex issue of refugee women and their susceptibility to sexual and gender-based violence. Refugees are more susceptible to this violence as a result of their increased vulnerability when they are displaced, as well as changing gender roles and environments as they are for... | | 2018 |
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Gappmaier, Andrea | Restorative justice: Refocusing the lens on the American criminal justice system | The traditional punitive justice system has failed American citizens. The United States has over 25 percent of the world's prison population and when released, three in four offenders will be back in prison within five years of their release date. High costs, estranging members of society, and rac... | Criminal justice, Administration of - United States | 2016-05 |
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Feltovich, Lucia | The grat equalizer | | | 2021 |
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Mailoux, Savannah | Mapping Vitality in Utah's Salt Lake County | The term vitality within the field of psychology is related to someone's energy or spirit as they move through different experiences in life. Most often, the term is associated with a sense of liveliness if someone were to possess high vitality, or a sense of dullness if someone were to possess low ... | | 2019 |
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Pacholarz, Natalia | The Great Salt Lake: drought, pollution, and economic impacts | This thesis analyzes the causes which are leading the Great Salt Lake to dry up and decrease in size. Furthermore, it examines the environmental implications of this trend, in particular looking at the impacts for air quality and pollution. This paper also discusses the economic impacts from these e... | | 2021 |
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Goates, Elizabeth | Scrm at Intermountain Heathcare: Hurricane Maria | On September 20, 2017 Hurricane Maria struck the island of Puerto Rico. The effects of the hurricane halted production at Baxter Medical's three plants located on the island. This document takes a look at how Intermountain Healthcare, headquartered in Salt Lake City, dealt with the effects of the hu... | | 2019 |
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Edgette, Ashley | Individual, collective, and neighborhood political capital : relationships of change, power, and love in Salt Lake City | In this study, I examine how three Latina community leaders from the Riverbrook neighborhood of Salt Lake City enact their political capital. My three measures of political capital are perceptions of individual power, community relationships, and influence in the larger school-community setting. Mot... | Community leadership - Utah - Salt Lake City; Hispanic American mothers - Utah - Salt Lake City | 2013-08 |
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Fairchild, Dylan | Climate change, extreme weather fluctuations and future of inhabitance and use in the Wasatch Mountain Range | Anthropogenic climate warming is occurring on a scale of exponential frequency. This climate change is a problem in and of itself as it permanently adjusts worldwide weather patterns and damages ecosystems essential to the function of our contemporary lives. This analysis will focus on the Wasatch M... | | 2024 |
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Hyde, Katie M. | Bhutanese refugee women's lived reproductive health experience in Salt Lake City, Utah | This research project focused on family planning and reproductive health care access among Bhutanese refugees in Salt Lake City, Utah. Four questions guided this study: (1) What contraceptive methods do female Bhutanese refugees use to control fertility/space births? (2) What reproductive health car... | Women refugees - Utah - Salt Lake City - Health and hygiene; Women refugees - Bhutan - Health and hygiene; Reproductive health services - Utah | 2014-05 |
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Thompson, Geneva EB | A history of interest covergence in University of Utah diversity related policies and programs | This paper will look at the history of interest convergence of the University of Utah Administration hi the implementation of diversity related programs and policies. Diversity programs and policies, especially with the pending ruling on Affirmative Action from the Supreme Court, are continuously un... | University of Utah - Faculty; University of Utah - Students; Affirmative action program in education - Utah - Salt Lake City; Minorities - Education (Higher) - Utah - Salt Lake City | 2013-04 |