Theses and Dissertations

The following are just a few examples of students who leveraged Bass Connections participation for their thesis or dissertation.

^{The information below each name includes major/program, the thesis or dissertation title, Bass Connections project.}

Luiza Perez

Global Health and Sociology
Maternal and Reproductive Health Sets the Stage for Child Health: Looking beyond Early Childhood in the Peruvian Amazon

Project Team

Environmental Epidemiology in Latin America: Leishmania (2015-2016)
Environmental Epidemiology in Latin America: Research and Policy Development to Reduce Chemical Exposures (2016-2017)
Environmental Epidemiology in Latin America: Impact of an Oil Spill in the Peruvian Amazon (2017-2018)

Sarah Philo, M.S.

Global Health
Norovirus Infections and Association with Animal Exposure in Sarawak, Malaysia

Project Team

Building Capacity for Surveillance and Diagnosis of Respiratory Viruses in Sarawak, Malaysia (2017-2018)

Thomas Harrison Polley, Ph.D.

Economics
Essays on Human Capital in Bangladesh

Project Team

Growth Mindset in Bangladesh: Evaluation of an Intervention to Increase Learning in Schools (2017-2018)

Hailey Prevett

Civil & Environmental Engineering
On-site Wastewater Treatment in Lowndes County, Alabama: A Failure in Engineering and Politics

Project Team

ACRE-Duke Partnership to Improve Sanitation Access in Lowndes County, Alabama (2018-2019)

Shruti Rao

Program II
Thesis examining the relationship among global value chains, behavioral economics and the psychology of personal finance

Project Team

North Carolina Competitiveness: The Workforce Development Challenge (2015-2016)
Pocket Colposcope: Increased Distribution and Adoption (2016-2017)

Sarah Rapaport

Neuroscience
Conditional LRP1 Knockout Murine Model for Traumatic Brain Injury

Project Team

Perception, Language and Memory (2014-2015)
Interventions Improving Neurosurgery Patient Outcomes in Uganda (2017-2018)

Stephanie Reist, Ph.D.

Romance Studies
‘Christ the Redeemer Turns His Back on Us:’ Urban Black Struggle in Rio’s Baixada Fluminense

Project Team

The Cost of Opportunity? Higher Education in the Baixada Fluminense (2017-2018)

Daniel Ribeiro, J.D.

Law
Adaptive Regulatory Impact Assessment: Beyond the Foresight-Hindsight Divide

Project Team

Reviewing Retrospective Regulatory Review (2015-2016)

Chloe Ricks

International Comparative Studies
‘Last Stop Destination’: Poverty, Anti-Blackness and University Education in the Mississippi Delta and the Baixada Fluminense (Rio Lowlands) in Brazil

Project Team

The Cost of Opportunity? Higher Education in the Baixada Fluminense (2017-2018)

Marguerite Rooney

Neuroscience
Ocular Movement and Subconcussive Exposure in the Pediatric Brain

Project Team

Oculomotor Response as an Objective Assessment for Mild TBI in the Pediatric Population (2017-2018)

Samantha Sadler

Global Health and Neuroscience
Infection Control from an Emic Perspective: Forming and Evaluating a Local Infection Control Team in a Low-Resource Neurosurgical Ward

Project Team

Evaluating Interventions Aimed at Improving Neurosurgical Patient Outcomes in Uganda (2018-2019)

Indrani Saha

Program II
Being Within: Disruption and Disorientation in Carlos Cruz-Diez's Chromosaturation

Project Team

Art, Vision and the Brain: An Exploration of Color and Brightness (2014-2015)

Nadine Sanchez, M.S.

Global Health
Understanding the Barriers and Potential Solutions to Epilepsy Care in Uganda: A Qualitative Study

Project Team

Cultural and Practical Barriers to Epilepsy Care in Uganda (2017-2018)

Saumya Sao

Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies and Global Health
The Development and Psychometric Evaluation of an HIV Stigmatizing Attitudes Scale in Tanzania

Project Team

Big Data for Reproductive Health (2019-2020)