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A Bass Connections project team wrapped up its summer session with a Naloxone kit-building party in collaboration with the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition.

What does it take to create compelling stories about complex historical, cultural and social realities? This summer, the Franklin Humanities Institute and Bass Connections launched Story+, a six-week program for students interested in bringing academic research to life through dynamic storytelling.

Lori Snyder Bennear, theme leader for Bass Connections in Energy, has been named Duke University’s inaugural Juli Plant Grainger Associate Professor of Energy Economics and Policy.

“Tracking is endemic in all schools and can perpetuate disparity,” says Kamilah Legette, a leader of a Bass Connections project team that explored tracking and perceptions of academic identity. “Students are aware that they are tracked. That impacts how they view themselves and how teachers view them. And that affects how they’ll perform in the classroom.”