Whatcom Student Scholarship

Items

• Ethical Use of Consumer Health and Genetic Data

  This paper discusses the ethical issues around medical, genetic, and health data obtained through consumer products such as smart watches, cell phone apps, and consumer marketed genetic testing.
• Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Protection: Exploring the Boundaries of Law, Technology, and Ethics

  This is a paper on the ethics of copyright as it relates to generative AI. I attempt to reach a stance that serves as a compromise between the various stakeholders in this debate - copyright holders, users of AI, and AI developers.
• Ethical & Motivated Blindness

  An exploration of the precursors/organizational factors that lead to ethical or motivated blindness that includes a literature review, interviews, and an original survey designed to monitor an organization's ethical culture.
• Artificial Intelligence in K-12 Education

  This paper was written about some ethical concerns regarding artificial intelligence in the K-12 education system. There are both pros and cons to AI in education, and this paper goes over some of those concerns/advantages.
• Ethics In AI Development and Use

  A research paper exploring the ethics surrounding AI development and use in the tech industry.
• How Unethical Decision-Making Causes Stress in Workers (in Regard to Management and Employees)

  This final paper includes all of the findings of my research on how unethical decision making and behaviors affect employees and managers stress levels and ways to resolve it.
• CEO-to-Worker Compensation Inequality

  This paper is an exploration of the income inequalities of top paid CEOs to median pay employees and how corporate governance is failing in respect to these unethical practices.
• Workplace Harassment: Women of Color

  Many of the research found today about workplace harassment fails to mention anything outside of sexual harassment. This research paper explains different types of workplace harassment, the consequences for individuals and businesses, traits of a harasser, interviews with real individuals who have experienced workplace harassment, a survey with 66 diverse women of all races, ages and industries to give their experiences with workplace harassment, and there is an interview with a family life therapist who has been interviewed. The paper includes primary and secondary research, and it also includes contacts for individuals who are experiencing workplace harassment to reach out to in Washington State. This information is extremely important to better understand how workplace harassment affects an individual.
• The Ethical Dilemma of Social Media