
Complete your daily Safe Start Health Check screening.
As a Public Affairs Senior, you will investigate an identifiable public or social problem about which you are capable of gathering information.
Recent Capstone Projects include:
You may choose to present your research at the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research. Through this annual conference, NCUR creates a unique environment for the celebration and promotion of undergraduate student achievement, provides models of exemplary research and scholarship and helps to improve the state of undergraduate education.
SU Undergraduate Research Award
Prizes:
To be eligible, students must be currently enrolled at Seattle University as an undergraduate student in any class level and have completed and submitted an original research project for an SU credit course.
Mary Lacey, Project Assistant for the Seattle University Project on Family Homelessness, writes a blog about her experiences with social justice issues. Read her blog entry about racism and housing, through the lens of films, books and online conversations she’s consumed over the past couple months.
Seattle University’s Center for Community Engagement s the main entry point for students, faculty, and staff for all forms of community engagement. The volunteer portal for all of their programs, including the Seattle University Youth Initiative, is a good place to get started if interested in volunteering.
New EVST Professor John Armstrong PhD, has recently published a study, "Urban renewable energy and ecosystems: integrating vegetation with ground-mounted solar arrays increases arthropod abundance of key functional groups."
The study brings together climate change mitigation policies and ecosystem conservation in urban areas by investigating how ground-mounted solar arrays in parking lots affect arthropod abundance and biodiversity.
Read an interview with Dr. Armstrong where he discusses his research with Solar Magazine.