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Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Student Project Showcase 2024

2024 Student Project Showcase
This special edition of our Ethics Spotlight highlights ethics fellowship and internship projects prepared by students during the 2023-24 academic year. Browse the projects below.
2023-24 Student Fellowship and Internship Projects
Animated hearts with human characteristics.
Navigate here to Cultivating Inclusive Environments for Students at SCU

As a member of the 2023-24 Campus Ethics Team, Armando Abarca '24 helped to cultivate inclusive environments where members of the SCU community experience opportunities to create deeper connections.

Panel Event Announcement. More Than Consent. A Panel on Dating and Relationships.
Navigate here to Relationship and Dating Ethics

Blaise Burbank '24 explored the misconceptions associated with college dating culture, which is saturated with social media and dating apps.

Images of different AI automations showing chatbots, and people interacting with them
Navigate here to Humanity, Ethics, and Artificial Intelligence

Laura Clark '24 examined AI as it intersects with the understanding of what it means to be human, have intelligence, and love.

Business Ethics Internships at Intel
Navigate here to Business Ethics Internship at Intel

Josie Collier’24 was a business ethics and legal compliance at Intel Corporation.

Two hands surrounding a light bulb. Inside the bulb is a fern plant. The hands and bulb are set against a green backdrop. Photo by Gerd Altmann_Pixabay.
Navigate here to Organizational Culture and its Role in Fostering Policy Development

Tatum Diemer '24 researched the role of organizations in shaping societal narratives and fostering intra-organizational policy developments regarding the climate crisis.

A map of Columbia.
Navigate here to Did Ignoring the Colombian Plebiscite Decrease Public Approval of the Peace Process?

Sebastian Falabella '25 sought to understand the Colombian plebiscite.

AI rendering of man wearing VR headset looking out a window overlooking a cityscape. Photo by Judas via Pixabay.
Navigate here to Ethics in VR

Sparsh Garg '24 worked to develop a playable educational VR model.

Unhoused person sleeping on cement steps.
Navigate here to Ethically Informed Responses to Homelessness

Kinsey Hall '24 investigated the ethics of homelessness; specifically, do cities have the right to criminalize homelessness?

Map of El Salvador with bitcoin graphics
Navigate here to Bitcoin in El Salvador

Daisy Halaszyn '25 examined the ethics of cryptocurrency in emerging economies.

Aerial view of Pajaro Levee 2023 after flooding. Photo by CA Department of Water Resources.
Navigate here to Examining the Pajaro Levee Failure

As a member of the 2023-24 environmental ethics fellowship, Anna Krebs '25 examined the Pajaro, CA flooding which brought to light ethical issues about emergency response.

SCU Medical Amnesty Policy Survey. Drawings depicting an ambulance siren, 911 telephone, and question marks.
Navigate here to Student Awareness and Understanding of Medical Amnesty and Good Samaritan Policies

Francis Lai '24 researched the extent to which SCU students were aware of and correctly understood SCU's medical amnesty and good samaritan policies.

Aerial view of Pajaro, CA. Photo by Robert Campbell, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.
Navigate here to Ethical Disparities in Emergency Response

Karina Martin '24 was an environmental ethics fellow. With the fellowship team, Martin studied the March 2023 Pajaro, CA flooding which lead to the evacuation of 1500+ residents and highlighted ethical disparities in emergency response.

Unhoused person sleeping on cement steps.
Navigate here to Examining Indigenous Homelessness via American Legal Cases

Chisomaga Nlemigbo '25 examined indigenous homelessness via indigenous and non-indigenous American legal cases

Aerial view of Pajaro, CA. Photo by Robert Campbell, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.
Navigate here to Examining the Pajaro Levee Failure

Tatum Petti' 24 was a 2023-24 environmental ethics fellow, and studied the March 2023 Pajaro, CA flooding which lead to the evacuation of 1500+ residents and highlighted ethical disparities in emergency response for the community.

Biometric Facial Recognition of Expressionless Young African American Female. Photo by Prostock Studio via Canva for Education.
Navigate here to Facial Recognition Ethics

Xiomara Quinonez '24 examines how improper training of facial recognition technologies can exacerbate racial biases.

Woman in red sweater wearing black framed eyeglasses sitting on wheelchair. Photo by Marcus Aurelius/Pexels.
Navigate here to Six Disability Ethics Cases

Isabella Reyes '24 examines the extent to which SCU supports people with disabilities. She co-wrote six disability ethics cases to be used in classroom discussions and workshops.

A Sense of Belonging Podcast, hosted by Hydeia Wysinger and Kendall Schrohe.
Navigate here to Sense of Belonging Podcast

Kendall Schrohe '24 partnered with Hydeia Wysinger to create a podcast and conceptualize the term 'belonging' at SCU.

Woman wearing a virtual reality headset. Photo by Riki32 via Pixabay.
Navigate here to Ethics in VR

Ben Shiverdaker '24 explored ethics and virtual reality and worked to develop a playable educational VR model.

A black hole in a vast view of outer space. Photo by Gerd Altmann via Pixabay.
Navigate here to Space Ethics

Justin Sun '25, a Hackworth Research Grant recipient, researched the ethical aspects of the United Nations space treaties.

Magnifying glass magnifying fingerprints.
Navigate here to Media Coverage on Gypsy Rose

Willa Weinsheimer '24 explores how media impacts attitudes on crime entertainment and how people view justice in America.

A drawing depicting an unhoused person sleeping on the sidewalk near the chain linked and barbed wire fence of a prison, flanked on each side by two guard towers.
Navigate here to Behind Bars and Beside Benches

Kimber Wood '24 researched the inhumane cycle of incarceration and homelessness in the United States.

A Sense of Belonging Podcast, hosted by Hydeia Wysinger and Kendall Schrohe.
Navigate here to A Sense of Belonging Podcast

Hydeia Wysinger '25 partnered with Kendall Schrohe '24 to develop a podcast in which they discuss the sense of belonging for students at Santa Clara University.

Aerial view of Pajaro Levee 2023 after flooding. Photo by CA Department of Water Resources.
Navigate here to Examining the Pajaro Levee Failure

As a 2023-24 environmental ethics fellow, Emma Young ’24 studied the March 2023 Pajaro, CA flooding which lead to the evacuation of 1500+ residents and highlighted ethical disparities in emergency response.

Aerial view of Pajaro, CA. Photo by Robert Campbell, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.
Navigate here to Examining the Pajaro Levee Failure

Sarah Young '24  studied the March 2023 Pajaro, CA flooding which lead to the evacuation of 1500+ residents and highlighted ethical disparities in emergency response.

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