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. 

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. Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy.

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

NC Department of Public Instruction

Aria Chernik. NC Department of Public Instruction. 2021. $50,000.

Project Team
OSPRI Lab: CSbyUs (2019-2020)

Neuroplicity: Simplicity in Neuroscience for Everyone

Kenneth Rogerson. The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment Fund, 2018. $5,000.

Project Team
Neuroplicity: Leveraging New Media and Digital Storytelling to Connect Society to Neuroscience (2016-2017)

New Tech and Check

William R. Adair. John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, 2019. $700,000.

Project Team
Data and Technology for Fact-checking (2019-2020)

NIH U01 - Cancer Technologies for LMICs

Tamara Fitzgerald. The National Institutes of Health, 2022. $2,000,000.

Project Team
Low-cost Laparoscopic Surgery with Tele-mentoring (2018-2019)
Sustainable Laparoscopic Surgery for Low-Income Countries: FDA Approval and Business Model for Access (2019-2020)
Increasing Access to Laparoscopic Surgery in Low-income Countries (2020-2021)
Sustainable Implementation of Laparoscopy in Low-income Countries (2021-2022)

Non-invasive Prenatal Testing: A Review of International Implementation and Challenges

M. Allyse, M.A. Minear, E. Berson, S. Sridhar, M. Rote, A. Hung, S. Chandrasekharan. 2015. International Journal of Women’s Health 7:113-126.

Project Team
Noninvasive Prenatal Testing in the Developing World: Ethical, Legal, Social and Practical Challenges (2013-2014)

Operation Climate Podcast Series

Matthew Brune, Rosanne Lam, Katherine Li, Sergio Macias-Vazquez, Natasha Von Seelen. Environmental Alliance. 2020.

Project Team
DECIPHER: Decisions on the Risks and Benefits of Geoengineering the Climate (2019-2020)

Order, Policing and Bribes in Indian Slums

Erik Wibbels, Juan Tellez. Under review. Journal of Conflict Resolution.

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

P&N Faculty Seed Grant

Eve Puffer. Charles Lafitte Foundation, Duke P&N, 2018. $50,000.

Project Team
Global Mental Health Program (2017-2018)

Pathways for Affective Learning in Massive Open Online Courses

Kun Li and Kim Manturuk. 2017. EDUCAUSE Review.

Project Team
Broadening Participation in Online STEM Education (2016-2017)

Performance Comparison Framework for Energy Disaggregation Systems

Nicholas Czarnek, Kenneth Morton, Leslie Collins, Richard Newell, Kyle Bradbury. 2015. Paper presented at IEEE SmartGridComm, Miami, FL.

Project Team
The University as an Energy Laboratory: Design and Implementation of an Energy Disaggregation System (2013-2014)

Perinatal Western-type Diet and Associated Gestational Weight Gain Alter Postpartum Maternal Mood

Jessica L. Bolton, Melanie G. Wiley, Bailey Ryan, Samantha Truong, Melva Strait, Dana Creighton Baker, Nancy Y. Yang, Olga Ilkayeva, Thomas M. O’Connell, Shelley W. Wroth, Cristina L. Sanchez, Geeta Swamy, Christopher Newgard, Cynthia Kuhn, Staci D. Bilbo, Leigh Ann Simmons. 2017. Brain and Behavior.

Project Team
Maternal Nutrition and the Developing Brain (2014-2015)

PJM States and the Clean Power Plan Additional Funding 2016

Brian Murray. Energy Foundation, 2015. $152,000.

Project Team
U.S. Climate Policy Options: Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Petroleum Refineries and Steel (2013-2014)

Plastic pollution solutions: emerging technologies to prevent and collect marine plastic pollution

Emma Schmaltz, Emily C. Melvin, Zoie Diana, Ella F. Gunady, Daniel Rittschof, Jason A. Somarelli, John Virdin, Meagan M. Dunphy-Daly. 2020. Environment International 144(106067).

Project Team
Bioremediation of Plastic Pollution to Conserve Marine Biodiversity (2019-2020)

Pluralistic and singular causal attributions for epilepsy in Uganda

Caleigh E. Smith, Mayanja Kajumba, Samuel Bobholz, Patrick J. Smith, Mark Kaddumukasa, Angelina Kakooza-Mwesige, Payal Chakraborty, Drishti D. Sinha, Martin N. Kaddumukasa, Alex Gualtieri, Noeline Nakasujja, Erica Onuoha, Juliet Nakku, Christine Muhumuza, Nadine Sanchez, Anthony T. Fuller, Michael M. Haglund, Deborah C. Koltai. 2020. Epilepsy & Behavior.

Project Team
Cultural and Practical Barriers to Epilepsy Care in Uganda (2018-2019)

Policies to Promote Energy Efficiency and Air Emissions Reductions in China’s Electric Power Generation Sector During the 11th and 12th Five-Year Plan Periods: Achievements, Remaining Challenges, and Opportunities

Mingquan Li, Dalia Patiño-Echeverri, Junfeng Zhang. 2019. Energy Policy 125:429-444.

Project Team
Disaggregating and Projecting Electricity Demand in China (2017-2018)

Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents and Financial Crises

Edward J. Balleisen, Lori S. Bennear, Kimberly D. Krawiec, Jonathan B. Wiener, eds. (featuring contributions from Bass Connections team members David Cheang, Jonathon Free, Megan Hayes, Emily Pechar, A. Catherine Preston). 2017. Cambridge University Press.

Project Team
Regulatory Disaster Scene Investigation (2014-2015)

Political Polarization and Morality

Joshua August Skorburg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong. 2018. Lulu Press. 

Project Team
How to Ask Questions (2017-2018)

Population Based Dietary Exposure to Mercury Through Fish Consumption in the Southern Peruvian Amazon

Beth J. Feingold, Axel Berky, Heileen Hsu-Kim, Elvis Rojas Jurado, William K. Pan. 2019. Environmental Research.

Project Team
Environmental Epidemiology in Latin America: Research and Policy Development to Reduce Chemical Exposures (2016-2017)

Precarious gains: Social mobility and volatility in urban slums

Emy Rains, Anirudh Krishna. 2020. World Development 1(132).

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

Predict and Prevent Malaria Outbreaks in the Amazon

William Pan. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 2021. $3,400,000.

Project Team
Environmental Epidemiology in Latin America: Environmental Hotspots of Vector-borne Parasitic Infections (2019-2020)

Predictors of Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number and Damage in a Mercury-Exposed Rural Peruvian Population Near Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining: an Exploratory Study.

Axel J. Berky, Ian T. Ryde, Beth Feingold, Ernesto J. Ortiz, Lauren H. Wyatt, Caren Weinhouse, Heileen Hsu-Kim, Joel N. Meyer, William K. Pan. 2019. Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis 60:197-210.

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

Project Bright IDEA 3: Nurturing for a Bright Tomorrow

Angel Harris. Department of Education, 2014. $1,864,699.

Project Team
Project Bright IDEA: Finding Talent and Giftedness in Children of Diverse Backgrounds (2014-2015)

Promoting Wellness Through Mobile Health Technology in a College Student Population: Protocol Development and Pilot Study

Susanne B. Haga, Ryan Shaw, Charles Kneifel, Sarah J. Bond, Geoffrey S. Ginsburg. 2020. JMIR Research Protocols 9(4):e16474.

Project Team
Enabling Precision Health and Medicine (2019-2020)

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