In the Media

November 16, 2018

My Communities
WomenNC

Amy Jiang, a member of the Bass Connections team Open Source Pedagogy, Research + Innovation (OPSRI) Lab, discusses her passion for computer science education within local communities.
November 8, 2018

A Just Environment: Industry, Environmental Policies and the Community
Streetside Conversations

Master’s student Kelsey Rowland reflects on her work with a Bass Connections team, ACRE-Duke Partnership to Improve Sanitation Access in Lowndes County, Alabama.
November 5, 2018

How Can Artificial Intelligence Help Us Be More Moral?
Templeton World Charity Foundation

Duke faculty members Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Vincent Conitzer and Jana Schaich Borg explore the topic of their Bass Connections team, Moral Artificial Intelligence.
November 2, 2018

Rethinking Graduate Education in the Humanities
Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning

Vice Provost Edward Balleisen and Dr. Maria LaMonaca Wisdom share insights from their experience reimagining doctoral training at Duke, including the value for humanities Ph.D. students of serving on Bass Connections and Story+ teams.
October 30, 2018

Party Lines
WYNC

Professor Jonathan Mattingly joins North Carolina A&T student Braxton Brewington and Executive Director Bob Phillips to discuss work related to Gerrymandering and the Extent of Democracy in America, a Data+ team and a Bass Connections team.
October 29, 2018

The Beauty of a Good Argument
Depolarize

Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong discusses his new book, Think Again, and the related topic of his Bass Connections team, How to Cure Political Polarization by Asking Questions.
October 8, 2018

Loss of Forest Elephant May Make Earth Less Inhabitable for Humans
Mongabay

John Poulsen, leader of a Bass Connections team called Mega-gardeners of Tropical Forests, discusses the importance of forest elephants, their impact on the environment and the catastrophic consequences of their diminishing numbers.
October 2, 2018

The Poisoning of the Amazon
National Geographic

Three Bass Connections student team members write about their summer fieldwork in Peru.
September 27, 2018

Use the Right Tools in the Right Ways to Address the Opioid Epidemic
The Hill

Nicole Schramm-Sapyta, leader of the Bass Connections team Stemming the Opiate Epidemic through Education and Outreach, discusses arguments for and against harm-reduction strategies to battle the opioid epidemic.
September 26, 2018

Our Nearby Dams Worked after Florence, But Someday They Won’t
The News & Observer

Martin Doyle and Lauren Patterson from the Bass Connections team DECIPHER: Case Studies in Drinking Water Quality describe the effects the recent hurricanes have had on dams operated by the US Army Corps of Engineers.

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