News
August 30, 2016
Mercy DeMenno, Alexandra Oprea and Daniel Ribeiro are among the 14 Duke graduate students selected as this year’s Kenan Graduate Fellows, a program run by the Kenan Institute for Ethics. read more about Three Bass Connections Alums Named as Kenan Graduate Fellows »
August 24, 2016
On a hot and humid August morning, an unlikely group gathered to take a trip to visit a commercial food waste digester in Charlotte, NC. Our backgrounds ranged from engineering professors and Ph.D. students to staff from Sustainable Duke to... read more about Bass Connections Team “Digests” New Technology in Charlotte »
August 23, 2016
What does a typical lab look like? From my experience in high school and at Duke, a typical lab consisted of reading the lab manual beforehand, working with prearranged samples, analyzing the data and writing the lab report. Yet Bass Connections... read more about Starting from Scratch »
August 22, 2016
Last fall, six Duke students assembled at Loyd Ray Farms to learn how its hogs, in the words of one student, Andrew Seelaus, “are cranking out some of North Carolina’s most valuable carbon offsets and renewable energy credits.” read more about Students Assess Whether Food Waste Could Help Duke Achieve Carbon Neutrality »
August 10, 2016
A Bass Connections project team spent the summer at two historic sites in Italy and made significant discoveries. Led by Maurizio Forte, the team discovered two Roman Empire-era facilities, a public building and an amphitheater. read more about Team Takes Different Paths to Two Major Archeological Finds »
August 8, 2016
A Bass Connections project has received two external grants to support its work. The Duke iGEM team is led by Nicolas Buchler, Charles Gersbach and Michael Lynch. read more about Duke iGEM Team Awarded Grants for Synthetic Biology Research and Outreach »
August 5, 2016
Duke administrators and evaluation experts will share lessons learned from Bass Connections at the NASPAA and American Evaluation Association annual conferences. read more about Lessons from Bass Connections to Be Shared at Two Conferences in October »
July 20, 2016
Associate Professor of Medicine Heidi White led a project team called Music and Memory in the Aging Brain. “It has been a very enriching experience,” she says. “My faculty colleagues have stretched me, and the Duke undergraduate students are so... read more about Faculty Perspectives: Heidi White on Her Bass Connections Experience »
July 19, 2016
A Bass Connections project team examined the effectiveness of daily music listening on the behavioral symptoms of patients with dementia and assessed perceptions of caregiver burden before and after the music intervention. read more about Personalized Music Therapy Benefits People with Dementia—and Their Caregivers »
July 19, 2016
“This is the beginning of what I consider to be a long-term commitment to working with the people of Robeson County,” said John Stanifer, Duke nephrology fellow and Master of Science in Global Health graduate. read more about Student Research Team Laying Groundwork for Improved Health in Robeson County, NC »