News

Teaching Students How to Keep Their Brains Healthy and Improve Their Learning Abilities
May 9, 2016

Walk into a 9th-grade honors health class at Wakefield High School in Raleigh, and you might think you’ve stepped into a freshman biology class at any local university. These high schoolers are learning the ins-and-outs of the brain down to the... read more about Teaching Students How to Keep Their Brains Healthy and Improve Their Learning Abilities »


Duke Awards Distinguished Professorships, Inducts New Bass Society Members
May 6, 2016

Duke has awarded distinguished professorships to 21 members of its faculty. Another four were inducted into the Bass Society of Fellows for Excellence in Teaching and Research. Among the recipients were two Bass Connections team leaders. read more about Duke Awards Distinguished Professorships, Inducts New Bass Society Members »


Shaping the Classroom
May 5, 2016

For a demographic that faces a greater risk of dropping out, and a persistent achievement gap in math and reading, one Bass Connections team is creating a program to support teaching practices that increase language and literacy outcomes for Latino... read more about Shaping the Classroom »


Research on the ReMo
May 4, 2016

Less than three months after devastating floods washed over parts of South Carolina, Duke’s ResearchMobile trundled down to Columbia, one of the hardest-hit areas, and set up shop in the parking lot of a shuttered Piggly Wiggly. A Bass Connections... read more about Research on the ReMo »


Caroline Bruzelius Honored with Leadership Award
May 2, 2016

Caroline Bruzelius received the Trinity College Dean’s Leadership Award for the Wired! Lab. She is a Bass Connections faculty team leader of The Lives of Things and Visualizing Venice. read more about Caroline Bruzelius Honored with Leadership Award »


Congratulations to the Student Leadership and Service Award Winners
April 28, 2016

Several Bass Connections participants are among the recipients of this year’s Duke Student Leadership and Service Awards. read more about Congratulations to the Student Leadership and Service Award Winners »


Josephine Ramseyer Wins Koonz Human Rights Prize for Best Alternative Project
April 28, 2016

Ramseyer was a member of the Bass Connections project team Displacement, Resettlement and Global Mental Health. read more about Josephine Ramseyer Wins Koonz Human Rights Prize for Best Alternative Project »


Diana Dai and Matthew Sebastian Receive Human Rights Center Grants
April 28, 2016

Two of the eight students who received grants are Bass Connections participants. They will spend the summer researching human rights issues. read more about Diana Dai and Matthew Sebastian Receive Human Rights Center Grants »


Indrani Saha Honored with Faculty Scholars Award
April 27, 2016

Saha was a member of the Bass Connections project team Art, Vision and the Brain: An Exploration of Color and Brightness, and serves on the Student Advisory Council. read more about Indrani Saha Honored with Faculty Scholars Award »


Jun Wang Receives Forever Duke Student Leadership Award
April 27, 2016

Congratulations to Jun Wang, who was a member of the Bass Connections project team Evaluation of Scaling Innovative Healthcare Delivery in East Africa. read more about Jun Wang Receives Forever Duke Student Leadership Award »


Pages