Ben Wiley leads a Bass Connections project team to explore whether flow-through electrolysis might be scaled up to make hydrogen from India's abundant solar power.
Three doctoral students see history repeating itself in places like the Peruvian Amazon, where their Bass Connections team has been conducting research on mercury pollution from gold mining.
Bass Connections “puts students and professors together in teams to spend a year developing solutions to societal problems” and is “already a model for interdisciplinary education at dozens of other institutions” that could be emulated by still more.
Professor Thomas Newpher and senior Ben Thier share findings from their Bass Connections project team, Collaborative Learning in STEM: Impacts on Student Motivation, Retention and Self-efficacy.
A Bass Connections project team interviewed 20 community health workers to understand the impact of the HOPE Peru Project on two communities on the outskirts of Lima.
Aria Chernik, team leader of OSPRI Lab: CSbyUs, discusses her open design pedagogy framework and her work developing an open-source CS curriculum for grades 3-5.
John Holbein and Sunshine Hillygus discuss their new book, which is related to the issues they are exploring with Bass Connections project teams (Developing the Political Citizen and Making Young Voters).
The collaborative is comprised of the Duke University Energy Access Project—a Bass Connections special initiative—along with Hivos, New Energy Nexus, Practical Action and Power for All.
