Interested in exploring new data-driven approaches to interdisciplinary challenges?

Data+ is a full-time ten-week summer research experience for undergraduates and master’s students. Students join small teams and learn how to marshal, analyze and visualize data, while gaining broad exposure to the field of data science. In Summer 2023, the program will run from Monday, May 29 until Friday, August 4. 

Within Data+, students can apply to Climate+, which aims to advance interdisciplinary understanding of climate change’s causes and societal impacts and to identify sustainable solutions.

Participants will receive a $5,000 stipend, out of which they must arrange their own housing and travel. They may not accept employment or take classes during the program.

Students can learn more about Data+ at the Plus Programs Info Fair on January 19 from 11:00-1:00 p.m. in Gross Hall. Applications will open after the fair and be accepted on a rolling basis through the end of February.

Data+ is offered through the Rhodes Information Initiative at Duke and is part of the Bass Connections Information, Society & Culture theme.

Explore the 2023 Data+ Projects

• A Textual Analysis of Economic Speeches on Agriculture 1919-2022
• Assessing and Accelerating Data Driven Career Programs for Young Black Men in Durham
• Assessing Climate Change Risk of Rural Coastal Plain Communities*†
• Assessing Germline Variations among Black Patients with Early-Onset Prostate Cancer
• Auditory Imagery of Speech and Non-Speech Sounds
• Corporate Investments in Diverse Led Funds
• Creating Emerging Technology Foresight Strategies for Synthetic Biology
• Creating Mental Health Technologies and Application Code of Ethics to Scale
• Data Science for Operations and Planning at Durham Public Schools
• Developing Impact Assessment Tools for Neurotechnologies
• Developing Patient Data Principles: Enabling Patients to Share and Receive Data Confidently
• Ethical Consumption Before Capitalism*
• Hip Hop Pedagogies & Education for Citizenship in Brazil & the U.S.*
• Innovations in Research Technology to Assess Forest Wildlife*
• Investigating Community-Based Review Boards to Enable More Transparent and Ethical Data Collection
• Landscape Analysis of Whole Genome Sequencing and New Born Screening
• Machine Learning and Evaluating Technical Documentation
• Measuring Urban Heat Islands and their Causes in Durham†
• Mental Health and the Justice System in Durham County*
• Mitigating the Risks of Emerging Technologies
• ML for High Complexity Clinical HLA Datasets
• Neurocities and Ruinscapes*
• Optimizing Hospital Scheduling Through Machine Learning
• Predicting Microbial Growth
• Quantifying the Carbon Footprint of Duke Dining†
• Quantifying Wetland Carbon Emissions in the Southeastern US*†
• Refining & Expanding Duke’s Wearable Infection Detection*
• Resourcing of Coal Ash Wastes for Decarbonized Infrastructure Materials†
• Responses of Parking Lot Usage to the COVID-19 Pandemic
• River Dead Zones: Identifying and Determining Hypoxia in Rivers Across North America†
• Rubenstein Library’s Card Catalog File
• Strengthening Partnerships: Durham Schools & Local Universities*
• Tracking Climate Change Causes & Impacts with Satellites and AI*†
• Understanding the Ocean Biological Carbon Pump with Big Data†
• Using Automated Interactional Synchrony to Predict Complex Behaviors
• Using Deep Event-Level Data to Provide Quantitative Insights for Duke Women’s Soccer Team
• Visualizing Data to Increase Access to Diapers

* Related to a 2023-2024 Bass Connections project
† Climate+ project

Learn More

• Attend the 2023 Plus Programs Information Fair on Thursday, January 19th from 11:00–1:00 p.m. in Gross Hall.
• Learn more about the 2023-2024 Bass Connections project teams at the 2023 Bass Connections Fair on Wednesday, January 25th from 2:00–4:00 p.m. in Penn Pavilion.
• Browse stories from students about their Bass Connections experiences.