The Alt-Right: The Rise of a New Political Faction
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The Symposium provides undergraduates from all academic disciplines with an opportunity to share their research with the university community and other guests through conference-style oral presentations. The Symposium represents part of a larger effort of Iowa State University to enhance, support, and celebrate undergraduate research activity.
Though coordinated by the University Honors Program, all undergraduate students are eligible and encouraged to participate in the Symposium. Undergraduates conducting research but not yet ready to present their work are encouraged to attend the Symposium to learn about the presentation process and students not currently involved in research are encouraged to attend the Symposium to learn about the broad range of undergraduate research activities that are taking place at ISU.
The first Symposium was held in April 2007. The 39 students who presented research and their mentors collectively represented all of ISU's Colleges: Agriculture and Life Sciences, Business, Design, Engineering, Human Sciences, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Veterinary Medicine, and the Graduate College. The event has grown to regularly include more than 100 students presenting on topics that span the broad range of disciplines studied at ISU.
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This research looks at the new political faction that has risen to prominence during the 2016 presidential election known as the “alt-right”. The research attempts to answer various questions about the altright, including: where it came from, who leads it, what are the different factions in the alt-right, what are the goals of the movement, what made them coalesce around President Trump, how are they different from mainstream conservatism, and how are they different from the White Power movement. The research looks at various different sources, including websites that either are or cater to the alt-right, looking at different leaders of the alt-right and their answers to some of the aforementioned questions, and also looking at different individuals within the alt-right, whether on alt-right forums, twitter, or comment sections, and what they say. The alt-right is important to study due to their influence on the new presidential administration and what implications that will have on American politics.