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My Bass Connections Pathway
November 11, 2015

Jordan Hashemi, a PhD candidate in Electrical & Computer Engineering, was a member of the Bass Connections project teams Information, Child... read more about My Bass Connections Pathway »


Faculty Perspectives: Martin Brooke
November 6, 2015

What are the theoretical and historical implications of using technology in performance? How can data-intensive live processing be used to create live art works that transform our awareness of the space around us? Martin Brooke, Tommy DeFrantz and... read more about Faculty Perspectives: Martin Brooke »


Bass Connections Team Meets with Federal Bureau to Examine History, Future of Ocean Energy
November 4, 2015

A Bass Connections project team traveled to the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort, NC, for a meeting with high-level representatives of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. Student members of the team took the lead in a... read more about Bass Connections Team Meets with Federal Bureau to Examine History, Future of Ocean Energy »


Understanding the Refugee Crisis
November 3, 2015

Duke’s Office of Global Affairs sheds light on the current crisis that has displaced almost 60 million people worldwide and points to a Bass Connections project as a way to get involved.... read more about Understanding the Refugee Crisis »


Tara Bansal Wins #PolicyInAction Contest
November 2, 2015

Bansal won the grand prize of the Sanford School of Public Policy’s contest for her work in slums in Bangalore, India, as part of a Bass Connections project team.... read more about Tara Bansal Wins #PolicyInAction Contest »


Building Nurse Capacity in Africa
October 26, 2015

The Distance-based, Executive-style Degree Completion Program for Ghanaian Nurse Anesthetists project team is helping to train nurse anesthetists to address the shortage of trained providers in Ghana. Sub-Saharan Africa carries 25 percent of the... read more about Building Nurse Capacity in Africa »


My Bass Connections Pathway
October 23, 2015

Jessica Bolton participated in the Bass Connections team Maternal Nutrition and the Developing Brain. She encourages other students to look at Bass Connections “as an opportunity to expand the scope of their research experience, forge new... read more about My Bass Connections Pathway »


Signature Courses Call for Proposals
October 23, 2015

December 1 is the deadline to submit proposals for Signature Courses, which are designed to unite a diverse range of undergraduates in the exploration of compelling challenges or “big questions” of our time.... read more about Signature Courses Call for Proposals »


Sarah Diringer, Global Health Doctoral Scholar
October 23, 2015

Sarah Diringer wants to understand how human activity affects the local and global cycling of naturally existing toxic compounds in the environment. She’s currently conducting a study on heavy metals and epidemiology in Peru and has participated in... read more about Sarah Diringer, Global Health Doctoral Scholar »


Faculty Perspectives: Jeffrey Moe
October 22, 2015

For less than fifty cents a dose, chlorhexidine could save an estimated 422,000 babies’ lives over the next five years. “Our team is conducting a global value chain analysis of the launch of chlorhexidine for umbilical cord care in Bangladesh,” says... read more about Faculty Perspectives: Jeffrey Moe »


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