News
Explore Bass Connections Projects That Begin This Summer
Looking for a research experience this summer? The following Bass Connections projects for 2017-2018 begin with a summer component and continue through the fall and spring semesters. (Project teams that are cross-listed appear under each theme.)
Brain & Society
- Exercise and Mental Health
- Interventions Improving Neurosurgery Patient Outcomes in Uganda
- Oculomotor Response as an Objective Assessment for Mild TBI in the Pediatric Population
- Privacy, Consumer EEG Devices and the Brain
- Stemming the Opiate Epidemic through Education and Outreach
- Using Machine Learning to Generate Clinical Prediction Rules for Clinical Outcomes in Schizophrenia
Information, Society & Culture
- Digital Cities and Cyberarchaeology
- Digital Durham: Past, Present, Future
- Duke Undergraduate International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Team
- Human-wildlife Interactions at Sea
- mHealth for Better Routine Immunization Data in Honduras
- Networks of Cooperation and Conflict in the Middle East
- Stemming the Opiate Epidemic through Education and Outreach
- Using Machine Learning to Generate Clinical Prediction Rules for Clinical Outcomes in Schizophrenia
- Visualizing Energy through Live Performance
In addition to these project teams, the Information, Society & Culture theme offers the Data+ summer research program. Students can apply through February 20.
Global Health
- Building Capacity for Surveillance and Diagnosis of Respiratory Viruses in Sarawak, Malaysia
- Cultural and Practical Barriers to Epilepsy Care in Uganda
- Decisions on Complex Interdisciplinary Problems of Health and Environmental Risk (D-CIPHER)
- Duke Undergraduate International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Team
- Global Alliance on Disability and Health Innovation (GANDHI) (optional summer component)
- mHealth for Better Routine Immunization Data in Honduras
- POCkeT Colposcope: Increased Distribution and Adoption
Education & Human Development
- The Cost of Opportunity? Higher Education in the Baixada Fluminense
- Digital Durham: Past, Present, Future
- Exercise and Mental Health
- Growth Mindset in Bangladesh: Evaluation of an Intervention to Increase Learning in Schools
- Making Young Voters: Policy Reforms to Increase Youth Turnout
- OSPRI Lab: Open Source Education Technology (optional summer component)
- STEM for All
- Visualizing Social Mobility in the Developing World
Energy
- Decisions on Complex Interdisciplinary Problems of Health and Environmental Risk (D-CIPHER)
- Disaggregating and Projecting Electricity Demand in China
- Energy Data Analytics Lab: Electricity Access in Developing Countries from Aerial Imagery (the project team itself does not have a summer component, but there is a related Data+ summer project, Electricity Access in Developing Countries from Aerial Imagery)
- Human-wildlife Interactions at Sea
- Visualizing Energy through Live Performance
Learn More
- Apply for 2017-2018 Bass Connections project teams by February 17 at 5:00 p.m.
- Browse stories from students on what they got out of their Bass Connections experience.
- Explore benefits for undergraduates and for graduate and professional students.