Selected Team Outputs

Here we present a sample of outputs resulting from Bass Connections project teams. Please use the "type" filter below to view the wide breadth of outcomes including publications, exhibits, websites and applications. 

Internal states and interoception along a spectrum of eating disorder symptomology

Nandini Datta, Tatyana Bidopia, Samir Datta, Gaurie Mittal, Franca Alphin, Beate M. Herbert, Elizabeth J. Marsh, Gavan J. Fitzsimons, Timothy J. Strauman, Nancy L. Zucker. 2021. Physiology & Behavior.

Project Team
Nutrition and Cognition (2015-2016)

Introducing: The Duke Space Initiative

Zella Hanson. 2021. Duke Research Blog.

Project Team
DECIPHER: Going to Mars - Science, Society and Sustainability (2020-2021)

KeyLoop Retractor for Global Gasless Laparoscopy: Evaluation of Safety and Feasibility in a Porcine Model

Siddhesh Zadey, Harold Leraas, Aryaman Gupta, Arushi Biswas, Pierce Hollier, Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Julius Mugaga, Robert T. Ssekitoleko, Jeffrey I. Everitt, Amos H. P. Loh, York Tien Lee, Ann Saterbak, Jenna L. Mueller, Tamara N. Fitzgerald. 2023. Surgical Endoscopy.

Project Team
Sustainable Implementation of Laparoscopy in Low-income Countries (2021-2022)

Land Use Change, Transmission Potential Networks and Disease Spread in Madagascar

Charles Nunn, Randall Kramer, James Moody, Peter Mucha, Hillary Young. Fogarty International Center, U.S. National Institutes of Health, 2019. $2,496,912.

Project Team
How Do People Affect Zoonotic Disease Dynamics in Madagascar? (2018-2019)

Laparoscopic experience and attitudes toward a low-cost laparoscopic system among surgeons in East, Central, and Southern Africa: a survey study

Norma E. Farrow, Sarah J. Commander, Christopher R. Reed, Jenna L. Mueller, Aryaman Gupta, Amos H. P. Loh, John Sekabira, Tamara N. Fitzgerald. 2020. Surgical Endoscopy.

Project Team
Sustainable Laparoscopic Surgery for Low-Income Countries: FDA Approval and Business Model for Access (2019-2020)

Lemur Surveys and Research in the COMATSA

James Herrera. Video. September 2022. Lemur Surveys and Research in the COMATSA. Duke Lemur Center.

Project Team
Biocultural Sustainability in Madagascar (2022-2023)

Leveraging Auxiliary Information on Marginal Distributions for Survey Nonresponse

Jerry Reiter, Sunshine Hillygus. National Science Foundation, Methodology, Measurement and Statistics Program, 2017. $300,000.

Project Team
Making Young Voters: Policy Reforms to Increase Youth Turnout (2017-2018)

Leveraging Global Value Chains to Bridge the Gap between Rural and Global Economies: Case of North Carolina’s Appalachian Automotive Industry

Shruti Rao. 2018. Journal of Rural and Community Development 13(1):105-124.

Project Team
North Carolina Competitiveness: The Workforce Development Challenge (2015-2016)

Leveraging Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Leadership Capacity to address Environmental Injustice and B

Deborah Gallagher. National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, 2013. $25,000.

Project Team
Strengthening Community Environmental Health through Duke-HBCU Partnerships (2013-2014)

Long Distance Seed Dispersal by Forest Elephants

John R. Poulsen, Christopher Beirne, Colin Rundel, Melissa Baldino, Seokmin Kim, Julia Knorr, Taylor Minich, Lingrong Jin, Chase L. Núñez, Shuyun Xiao, Walter Mbamy, Guichard Ndzeng Obiang, Juliana Masseloux, Tanguy Nkoghe, Médard Obiang Ebanega, Connie J. Clark, Michael J. Fay, Pete Morkel, Joseph Okouyi, Lee J. T. White, Justin P. Wright. 2021. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

Project Team
Mega-gardeners of Tropical Forests: Modeling Seed Dispersal by Forest Elephants (2018-2019)

Making Faces at the Intersection of Art and Neuroscience

Monica Huerta, Elizabeth Johnson, Eleonora Lad, Jeff MacInnes, Guillermo Sapiro, Marianne Wardle, Kaitlin Henderson, Anuhita Basavaraju, Peter Cangialosi, Sophie Katz, Eduardo Salgado, Christopher Yoo. 2016. Durham, NC: Nasher Museum of Art.

Project Team
Art, Vision and the Brain (2015-2016)

Making Young Voters: Policy Reforms to Increase Youth Turnout

Sunshine Hillygus, John Holbein, Matthew Lenard. National Science Foundation, Political Science Program, 2017. $326,233.

Project Team
Making Young Voters: Policy Reforms to Increase Youth Turnout (2017-2018)

Measuring Segregation and Individual Outgroup Exposure: The k-Nearest-Neighbors Metric

Jeremy Spater. In preparation. 

Project Team
Studying the Real 'Slums' in Bangalore, Patna and Jaipur (2016-2017)

Medieval Color Comes to Light

Mariano Tepper, Mark Olson, Caroline Bruzelius, Guillermo Sapiro, Lex Butler, Alexandra Dodson, Sinan Goknur, Amanda Lazarus, Jordan Hashemi, Max Symuleski, Christopher Tralie, Nan Yi. 2015. Durham, NC: Nasher Museum of Art.

Project Team
The Lives of Things (2014-2015)

Medieval Color Comes to Light

Mariano Tepper, Mark Olson, Caroline Bruzelius, Guillermo Sapiro, Lex Butler, Alexandra Dodson, Sinan Goknur, Amanda Lazarus, Jordan Hashemi, Max Symuleski, Christopher Tralie, Nan Yi. 2015. Durham, NC: Nasher Museum of Art.

Project Team
The Lives of Things (2014-2015)

Memory and Counterfactual Simulations for Past Wrongdoings Foster Moral Learning and Improvement

Matthew L. Stanley, Roberto Cabeza, Rachel Smallman, Felipe De Brigard. 2021. Cognitive Science 45(6).

Project Team
Remember Why You Should Do It? Memory and Reasons in Moral Decision-making (2018-2019)

Mercury Exposure and Poor Nutritional Status Reduce Response to Six Expanded Program on Immunization Vaccines in Children: An Observational Cohort Study of Communities Affected by Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon

Lauren Wyatt, Sallie Robey Permar, Ernesto Ortiz, Axel Berky, Christopher W. Woods, Genevieve Fouda Amouou, Hannah Itell, Heileen Hsu-Kim, William Pan. 2019. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16(4): 638.

Project Team
Environmental Epidemiology in Latin America: Impact of an Oil Spill in the Peruvian Amazon (2017-2018)

Midpregnancy Marriage and Divorce: Why the Death of Shotgun Marriage Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

Christina M. Gibson-Davis, Elizabeth O. Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines. 2016. Demography.

Project Team
Racial and Educational Inequality as a Consequence of Family Structure: Learning from Shotgun Marriages (2014-2015)

Migrating Giants: Digital Memory and Dislocation in Preaching Formation

Jerusha Matsen Neal. 2021. Taylor & Francis 36(2):18-25.

Project Team
#MyVoiceMyBody: Minoritized Bodies in the Pulpit at Duke Chapel (2019-2020)
Story+ (2019)

Modeling Salt Marsh Vegetation Height Using Unoccupied Aircraft Systems and Structure from Motion

Alexandra E. DiGiacomo, Clara N. Bird, Virginia G. Pan, Kelly Dobroski, Claire Atkins-Davis, David W. Johnston. 2020. Remote Sens 12(14):2333.

Project Team
Developing Rapid Remote Assessments of Oyster Reef Health and Biodiversity (2019-2020)

Modeling Salt Marsh Vegetation Height Using Unoccupied Aircraft Systems and Structure from Motion

Alexandra E. DiGiacomo, Clara N. Bird, Virginia G. Pan, Kelly Dobroski, Clarie Atkins-Davis, David W. Johnston, Justin T. Ridge. 2020. Remote Sens. 12:2333.

Project Team
Developing Rapid, Cost-effective Methods for Evaluating Coastal Biodiversity and Resilience (2018-2019)

Monocytes in Dry AMD: Histopathology and Functional Biomarkers

Eleonora Lad. National Institutes of Health, 2016. $140,028.

Project Team
Art, Vision and the Brain (2015-2016)

Moral Decision-Making Frameworks for Artificial Intelligence

Vincent Conitzer, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Jana Schaich Borg, Yuan Deng, Max Kramer. 2017. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 

Project Team
How to Build Ethics into Robust Artificial Intelligence (2017-2018)

Multi-task Learning for Solar Photovoltaic Array Detection

Kyle Bradbury. Department of Energy, 2019. $30,999.

Project Team
A Wider Lens on Energy: Adapting Deep Learning Techniques to Inform Energy Access Decisions (2019-2020)

N.C. Medicaid Reform: A Bipartisan Path Forward

Barak Richman, Allison Rice. 2017. Durham, NC: Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy.

Project Team
NC Medicaid Reform Advisory Team (2016-2017)

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