Every year, Bass Connections provides students with opportunities to work together to explore big unanswered questions about major societal challenges. Project teams draw on perspectives from multiple disciplines and engage with communities, stakeholders and decision-makers locally and across the world.

Here are a few of our highlights from the past year:

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In Their Own Words

In this series of team-authored profiles, seven Bass Connections project teams share the questions that shaped their work, the challenges they navigated and the discoveries that emerged along the way. From coastal restoration to robotic surgery to reducing disparities in cancer care, their experiences demonstrate research in action.

Explore their stories
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Fighting Superbugs in the Age of Climate Change

Climate change is giving drug-resistant pathogens new ways to spread. Meet the Bass Connections team connecting science, health and environmental policy to confront two global crises at once.

Research-driven policy impacts
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Creative Strategies for Public Schools

A Bass Connections team partnered with North Carolina Community Schools Coalition to help schools across the state open resource centers that empower K-12 families by providing material support, connections, learning opportunities and more.

Improving educational outcomes
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Predicting Earthquakes, Protecting Lives

In partnership with students and faculty in Kathmandu, Nepal, a long-running Bass Connections team piloted the country’s first comprehensive earthquake early warning system.

International Partnerships
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Building Community Through Music

A Bass Connections team partnered with local leaders to document and help produce Fandango de Durham, a cultural event centered on the Mexican musical tradition of son jarocho.

Supporting Arts and Artists
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Collaborative Project Courses

Through a partnership with the Center for Teaching and Learning, Bass Connections welcomed the fourth cohort of Collaborative Project Course Faculty Fellows. Over the past six years, this program has supported more than 60 faculty creating courses that feature semester-long collaborative projects.

Meet the fellows