Faculty Perspectives

Interested in learning more about Bass Connections from the point of view of faculty? Here, Duke faculty members reflect on their experience. Inspired? Learn how you can get involved in Bass Connections.

Craig Roberts

We worked on this idea of developing an app of course concepts across the year and then using the data from the learning management system to personalize that map for each individual student…. We felt it would be a good fit for Bass Connections to bring together knowledge of computer science, learning sciences and visual arts. This project has really enabled us to connect with students in different disciplines and also faculty members with these types of expertise. full profile »


Deborah Rigling Gallagher

The idea for this project was based on a beginning partnership with Paul Quinn College. I do some work at the intersection of environmental justice and urban development, and I had a small grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Federation to do work in the community next to the college. I came up with this idea of bringing students from Duke and Paul Quinn together for the next phase. Bass Connections was really transformative for me. full profile »


David Bell

The Bass Connections experience has been personally very transforming intellectually. It’s partially changed my research and writing focus. I have a piece coming out on touch and closeness in a collection to be published by the University of Chicago Press, which I never would have written if I hadn’t had this experience. And I’m working on a piece on spatial memory, which is a new area of reflection for me. full profile »


Joseph Egger

It’s been a really interesting experience to merge the global health side and the business school side, because we don’t always come at problems the same way. We’re all learning a lot in this process…. We’re writing a paper together, and as a group we went to the CUGH conference and presented a poster. That was a great experience. And a couple of our students participated in a case competition and actually won! full profile »


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