Session B: 10:45AM – 12:15PM
Architecture, Arts, and Humanities. Session B – Oral Presentations. Boyer Conference (2nd floor), Alumni House
SESSION B (10:45AM-12:15PM)
Location: Boyer Conference (2nd floor), Alumni House
Mapping the Conservative Movement
Luke Seaver, University of Utah
Faculty Mentor: Peter Roady, University of Utah
SESSION B 10:45-11:00AM
Boyer Conference (2nd floor), Alumni House
Humanities
Mapping the Conservative Movement is a digital humanities project led by Dr. Peter Roady of the University of Utah Department of History. It brings together the insights of history, sociology, and psychology and the digital tools of entity extraction, social network analysis, and data visualization to develop a more sophisticated understanding of the origins of the modern conservative movement. In my capacity as research assistant to Dr. Roady, I am conducting archival research and digitizing archival documents in order to identify key individuals and organizations in the early conservative movement and provide data for the digital analysis tools. I will also write analytical essays on some of the project’s most important findings for the open-source webpage that is to be created for the project once the research is complete.
The Effects of High School Design on Student Success
Charity Wardle, Utah State University
Faculty Mentor Holly Murdock, Utah State University
SESSION B 11:05-11:20AM
Boyer Conference (2nd floor), Alumni House
Arts
The central purpose of this research was to explore the effects that high school design had on student success. Society is starting to value mental health just as much as physical health, especially in our younger generations. It is important to consider the physical aspects of school design, but it just might be even more beneficial to focus on the impact of design on the mental health of students. Every student should feel valued by society, but instead many students are being stigmatized by the physical state of their high school and community. The goals of this research are to help define student success, recognize the impact that thoughtful interior architecture and design can have on those occupying a space, gain perspective from high school administration and faculty, and bring awareness to the public about the importance of investing time and money into high school design. This research focuses primarily on three high schools in Utah from varying districts that have either a remodel or renovation in the past five to fifteen years. The literature review for this project played a large part in proving the significance and need for this kind of research dealing with educational design. The methodology for the research is categorized into two parts, online data, and physical data. The online data consisted of researching the statistics of each school before and after the remodel or renovation. The statistics dealt with quantitative data such as enrollment and graduation rates, test scores, and overall sch