Summer Research Opportunities through Bass Connections Projects

January 22, 2018

Bass Connections summer research

Looking for a funded summer research experience? Some of the 2018-19 Bass Connections project teams begin with a summer component.

The list below includes projects with research opportunities for Summer 2018. Read the project descriptions carefully, especially the Timing section. To learn more, come to the Bass Connections Fair on Wednesday, January 24 (2:30 to 5:30, Energy Hub, first floor of Gross Hall). Team leaders, advisors and staff will be available to share information and answer questions.

Applications are due on February 16 at 5:00 p.m.

Brain & Society

Cheating, Gaming and Rule Fixing: Challenges for Ethics across the Adversarial Professions

Evaluating Interventions Aimed at Improving Neurosurgical Patient Outcomes in Uganda

Oculomotor Response as an Objective Assessment for Mild TBI in the Pediatric Population

Patients’ Journey to Medication Adherence

Privacy, Consumer EEG Devices and the Brain

Remember Why You Should Do It? Memory and Reasons in Moral Decision-making

Using Machine Learning to Generate Clinical Predication Rules for Clinical Outcomes in Schizophrenia

Using Neuroscience to Optimize Digital Health Interventions across Adulthood

Information, Society & Culture

America’s Sacred Spaces

Big Data for Reproductive Health (through a related Data+ summer project)

Data and Technology for Fact-checking (through a related Data+ summer project)

Duke Undergraduate International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Team

Gerrymandering and the Extent of Democracy in America (through a related Data+ summer project)

Smart Archaeology

Global Health

Cultural and Practical Barriers to Epilepsy Care in Uganda

Developing a Mobile Phone-based Community Health Program for Hypertension Control in Nepal

Global Alliance on Disability and Health Innovation (GANDHI): What Makes Innovation Stick? (through a related Data+ summer project)

How Do People Affect Zoonotic Disease Dynamics in Madagascar?

Refining Surveillance for Zoonotic Respiratory Viruses in Sarawak, Malaysia

Vaccine Misinformation and Its Link to Vaccine Hesitancy and Uptake in Durham (through a related Data+ summer project)

Education & Human Development

Making Young Voters: Policy Reforms to Increase Youth Turnout

Mindfulness in Human Development

Music for Social Change: Research in Practice with Kidznotes and El Sistema USA

OSPRI Lab

Problem-based Learning to Improve Girls’ Math Identity

Virtual Avatar Coaches: Improving Mental Health Treatment for College Students with Accessible Peer Support

Energy & Environment

Coal in America: Chronicling and Analyzing Its Economic and Social History (through a related Story+ summer project)

Developing Rapid, Cost-effective Methods for Evaluating Coastal Biodiversity and Resilience

Environmental Epidemiology in Latin America: Impacts of Artisanal Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon

From the Ground Up: The Business and Policy Landscape for Energy Access in East Africa

Marine Microalgae for Sustainable Production of Food and Fuel

Mega-gardeners of Tropical Forests: Modeling Seed Dispersal by Forest Elephants

Ocean Evidence Gap Map

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