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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
October 20, 2015
Elliott Wolf ’08 is the director of analytics at Lineage Logistics, which has won a Data Impact Award from Cloudera. As an undergraduate, Wolf pursued a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, served as student body president of Duke Student Government... read more about Duke Alumnus Uses Data Science to Win Awards, Partner with Students »
October 15, 2015
A free iOS app to learn more about autism in young children, developed by researchers and software developers from Duke University and the Duke Medical Center, is now available from the Apple App Store. Autism & Beyond is a further development... read more about New Autism Research App Launched »
October 7, 2015
Bass Connections is accepting project team proposals for 2016-2017 and will continue partnerships with the Kenan Institute for Ethics and the Franklin Humanities Institute.... read more about Bass Connections Call for Proposals »
September 27, 2015
Ray Li participated in the Bass Connections project team Project Bright IDEA: Finding Talent and Giftedness in Children of Diverse Backgrounds. “Bass Connections has the audacity to take on the big, ‘so complex they’re scary’ problems in society,”... read more about My Bass Connections Pathway »
September 23, 2015
Dr. Roberts led a Bass Connections team that developed an app to track student progress. “We felt it would be a good fit for Bass Connections to bring together knowledge of computer science, learning sciences and visual arts,” he says. ... read more about Faculty Perspectives: Craig Roberts »
September 22, 2015
Lauren Wyatt won a poster award from the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology based on her Bass Connections project team research in Madre de Dios, Peru.... read more about Duke PhD Student Wins Award for Global Health Poster »