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- Energy and the Environment: Design and Innovation (2016-2017)
- Promoting Academic Success for Latino English Learners in Elementary School
- A Community Based Mental Health Intervention with Latinos in Durham, NC
- A Course Performance Mapping App
- ACRE-Duke Partnership to Improve Sanitation Access in Lowndes County, Alabama (2018-2019)
- Addressing Cultural and Practical Barriers to Epilepsy Care in Uganda (2017-2018)
- Addressing Global Health Needs among Refugee Children and Families in Durham County (2017-2018)
- Age Differences in Economic Decision Making
- Aging and Reliance on Memory-Based Heuristics (2014-2015)
- Aging and Reliance on Memory-Based Heuristics
- America's Sacred Spaces (2018-2019)
- An Innovative App to Enhance Course Performance
- Animal Waste Management and Global Health (2016-2017)
- Art, Vision and the Brain: Autism and Face Processing (2016-2017)
- Art, Vision, and the Brain: An Exploration of Color and Brightness
- Art, Vision, and the Brain: An Exploration of Color and Brightness (2014-2015)
- Beauty in Balance and Balance in Beauty: An Exploration of the Laws of Physics in Abstract Modern Art (2016-2017)
- Big Data for Reproductive Health (2018-2019)
- Blue Devil Resistome Project (2017-2018)
- Brain-Immune Interactions in Neurodegenerative Disease (2014-2015)
- Brain-Immune Interactions in Neurodegenerative Disease
- Brain-immune Interactions in Neurodegenerative Disease (2016-2017)
- Broadening Participation in Online STEM Education (2016-2017)
- Building Capacity for Surveillance and Diagnosis of Respiratory Viruses in Sarawak, Malaysia (2017-2018)
- Building Duke: The Architectural History of Duke Campus from 1924 to the Present (2018-2019)
- Charter Schools, Diversity, and Non-Cognitive Assessment
- Cheating, Gaming and Rule Fixing: Challenges for Ethics across the Adversarial Professions (2018-2019)
- Chlorhexadine for Umbilical Cord Care
- Citizenship Lab: Civic Participation of Refugee Youth In Durham Submitted to Education and Human Development
- Coal in America: Chronicling and Analyzing Its Economic and Social History (2018-2019)
- Communicating about Energy in the Triangle: Engaging students and local partners to improve household consumption
- Community Care of Frail Elders in Cross-Cultural Settings: A Team-based Approach
- Community Care of Frail Elders in Cross-cultural Settings: A Team-based Approach (2014-2015)
- Cookstoves and Air Pollution in Madagascar: Finding Winning Solutions for Human Health and Biodiversity (2016-2017)
- Coursera and the Future of Free Massive Open Online Courses
- Coursera and the Future of Free Massive Open Online Courses
- Coursera and the Future of MOOCs
- Creating Online Education for K-12 Teachers of the Probability and Statistics Common Core
- Creative Industries and the Urban Environment (2017-2018)
- Creative Industries and the Urban Environment (2018-2019)
- Cultural and Practical Barriers to Epilepsy Care in Uganda (2018-2019)
- Customizing a Tool to Collect Complex Network Data among HIV-positive Youth in South Africa (2017-2018)
- DECIPHER: Case Studies in Drinking Water Quality (2018-2019)
- Data and Technology for Fact-checking (2018-2019)
- Decisions on Complex Interdisciplinary Problems of Health and Environmental Risk (D-CIPHER) (2017-2018)
- Developing Departmental Energy Reports and a Carbon Pricing Program for Duke University (2016-2017)
- Developing Rapid, Cost-effective Methods for Evaluating Coastal Biodiversity and Resilience (2018-2019)
- Developing a Mobile Phone-based Community Health Program for Hypertension Control in Nepal (2018-2019)
- Difficult Early Childhoods and Educational Paths toward Adulthood
- Difficult Early Childhoods and Educational Paths toward Adulthood
- Digital Cities and Cyberarchaeology (2017-2018)
- Digital Cities and Polysensing Environments (2016-2017)
- Digital Durham: Past, Present, Future (2017-2018)
- Disaggregating and Projecting Electricity Demand in China (2017-2018)
- Displacement, Resettlement and Global Mental Health Work Group
- Distance-based, Executive- style Degree Completion Program for Ghanaian Nurse Anesthetists
- Distance-based, Executive-style Degree Completion Program for Ghanaian Nurse Anesthetists (2014-2015)
- Distributed Solar Generation for Duke University Employees
- Documenting Durham's Health History: Understanding the Roots of Health Disparities (2018-2019)
- Duke Undergraduate International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Team (2016-2017)
- Duke Undergraduate International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Team (2017-2018)
- Duke Undergraduate International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Team (2018-2019)
- Education and Rural Entrepreneurship in Appalachia
- Education and the Changing Brain
- Education and the Changing Brain
- Education, Poverty, and Economic Inequality in Rural Appalachia
- El Sistema USA and Duke: Advancing the Power of Music for Human Development (2017-2018)
- Emotional Connection: Developing a Mobile Intervention for Social and Emotional Dysfunction (2018-2019)
- Enabling Precision Health and Medicine (2017-2018)
- Enabling Precision Health and Medicine (2018-2019)
- Energy Data Analytics Lab (2016-2017)
- Energy Data Analytics Lab
- Energy Data Analytics Lab: Electricity Access in Developing Countries from Aerial Imagery (2017-2018)
- Energy Data Analytics Lab: Energy Infrastructure Map of the World through Satellite Data (2018-2019)
- Energy Efficiency in Industry: High-tech Glass Manufacturing at Corning Inc. (2016-2017)
- Energy Efficiency in Industry: Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
- Energy Efficiency in Industry: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
- Energy and the Environment: Design and Innovation (2017-2018)
- Energy and the Environment: Design and Innovation (2018-2019)
- Energy and the Environment: Design and Innovation
- Energy and the Environment: Design and Innovation
- Environmental Effects on Cognitive Development (2013-2014)
- Environmental Effects on Cognitive Development (2014-2015)
- Environmental Effects on Cognitive Development
- Environmental Epidemiology Research Training in the Peruvian Amazon
- Environmental Epidemiology in Latin America (2014-2015)
- Environmental Epidemiology in Latin America
- Environmental Epidemiology in Latin America: Impact of an Oil Spill in the Peruvian Amazon (2017-2018)
- Environmental Epidemiology in Latin America: Impacts of Artisanal Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon (2018-2019)
- Environmental Epidemiology in Latin America: Leishmania
- Environmental Epidemiology in Latin America: Research and Policy Development to Reduce Chemical Exposures (2016-2017)
- Environmental Justice & the Early-Life Origin of Health Disparities: Why Mom Matters (2013-2014)
- Environmental Justice & the Early-Life Origin of Health Disparities: Why Mom Matters
- Evaluating Interventions Aimed at Improving Neurosurgical Patient Outcomes in Uganda (2018-2019)
- Evaluation of Scaling Innovative Healthcare Delivery in East Africa
- Exercise Therapy and Brain Health: Implications for Alzheimer's Disease and Aging (2018-2019)
- Exercise and Mental Health (2016-2017)
- Exercise and Mental Health (2017-2018)
- Exercise and Mental Health (2018-2019)
- Exercise as a Therapy for Cognitive Aging and Alzheimer's Disease (2017-2018)
- Exploration and Design of Student-Led International Rural Electricity Access Projects
- Exploring New Media and Mechanisms to Connect Society to Neuroscience
- Exploring the Intersection of Energy and Peace-building through Film
- Exploring the Intersection of Energy and Peace-building through Film
- Expressive Writing for Resilience in Adult Pediatric Oncology Survivors and Their Caregivers (2018-2019)
- Feasibility Study for a Campus Digester
- Feature Extraction and Quantitative Analysis of Large Scientific Document Corpra
- From the Ground Up: The Business and Policy Landscape for Energy Access in East Africa (2018-2019)
- Generosity and Gratitude: Mechanisms, Motivations, and Models of Living Kidney Donation
- Gerrymandering and the Extent of Democracy in America (2018-2019)
- Global Alliance on Disability and Health Innovation (GANDHI) (2016-2017)
- Global Alliance on Disability and Health Innovation (GANDHI) (2017-2018)
- Global Alliance on Disability and Health Innovation (GANDHI): What Makes Innovation Stick? (2018-2019)
- Global Mental Health Program (2017-2018)
- Global Mental Health-Integrative Training Program (2016-2017)
- Goals and Collective Efficacy: Routes to Energy Saving
- Governance and Adaptive Regulation of Transformational Technologies in Transportation (2017-2018)
- Growth Mindset in Bangladesh: Evaluation of an Intervention to Increase Learning in Schools (2017-2018)
- High School Dropouts' Perspectives: Implications for Dropout Prevention Practices and Policies (2017-2018)
- History and Future of Ocean Energy (2016-2017)
- History and Future of Ocean Energy
- How Do Cyberattacks Hurt Me? (2018-2019)
- How Do People Affect Zoonotic Disease Dynamics in Madagascar? (2018-2019)
- How to Ask Questions (2017-2018)
- How to Build Ethics into Robust Artificial Intelligence (2017-2018)
- How to Cure Political Polarization by Asking Questions (2018-2019)
- Human Health Risks, Environmental and Ecosystem Damage Associated with Contamination of Used Motor Oil at Auto-mechanic Villages in Ghana (2016-2017)
- Human-wildlife Interactions at Sea (2017-2018)
- Image Processing Algorithms for Art Conservation (2016-2017)
- Image Processing Algorithms for Art Conservation (2017-2018)
- Improving Neurosurgery Patient Outcomes in Uganda (2016-2017)
- Indian Health Information Networks (2017-2018)
- Individual and Household Responses to the October 2015 Floods in South Carolina (2015-16)
- Information, Child Mental Health & Society
- Information, Child Mental Health, and Society
- Innovation & Technology Policy Lab (ITPLab) (2014-2015)
- Integrative Global Health Research on Sickle Cell Disease (2014-2015)
- Integrative Global Health Research on Sickle Cell Disease (2014-2015)
- Interculturally Competent Analysis of the Uptake of Routine Vaccination (2015-2016)
- International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM)
- Interventions Improving Neurosurgery Patient Outcomes in Uganda (2017-2018)
- Interventions to Increase Healthy Eating on College Campuses
- Juntos: A Digital Health Intervention
- LIT HoMES (Leveraging Individual Transitions into Homeownership to Motivate Energy Savings)
- Live Processing and Live Art: Performance and Technology (2013-2014)
- Live Processing and Live Art: Performance and Technology
- Living Donor Kidney Transplants and the Good Samaritan: Religious, Legal, and Ethical Challenges of Non-simultaneous, Extended, Altruistic Donor Chains
- Look before you leap! Using eye tracking to understand the evolution of locomotor decision making
- Low-cost Laparoscopic Surgery with Tele-mentoring (2018-2019)
- Machine Society Interfaces
- Making Data Matter
- Making Young Voters: Policy Reforms to Increase Youth Turnout (2017-2018)
- Making Young Voters: Policy Reforms to Increase Youth Turnout (2018-2019)
- Marine Microalgae for Sustainable Production of Food and Fuel (2018-2019)
- Math before Symbols: Games to Increase School Readiness in Pre-Schoolers
- Medicaid Reform Advisory Team (2016-2017)
- Mega-gardeners of Tropical Forests: Modeling Seed Dispersal by Forest Elephants (2018-2019)
- Mindfulness in Education and Human Development
- Mindfulness in Education and Human Development
- Mindfulness in Human Development (2016-2017)
- Mindfulness in Human Development (2017-2018)
- Mindfulness in Human Development (2018-2019)
- Modeling Tools for Energy Systems Analysis (MOTESA) (2016-2017)
- Modeling Tools for Energy Systems Analysis (MOTESA)
- Modeling Tools for Energy Systems Analysis (MOTESA)
- Modeling and Simulation
- Moral Artificial Intelligence (2018-2019)
- Moral Judgments by and about Stimulant Users
- Music and Memory in the Aging Brain
- Music for Social Change: Research in Practice with Kidznotes and El Sistema USA (2018-2019)
- NC Jukebox (2016-2017)
- NC Jukebox
- NC in the Global Economy: The Workforce Development Challenge
- NEUROPLICITY: Leveraging New Media and Digital Storytelling to Connect Society to Neuroscience (2014-2015)
- Neighborhood-2-Brain
- Networks of Cooperation and Conflict in the Middle East (2017-2018)
- Neuroplicity: Leveraging New Media and Digital Storytelling to Connect Society to Neuroscience (2016-2017)
- Non‐Invasive Prenatal Testing in the Developing World: Ethical, Legal, Social and Practical Challenges
- North Carolina Competitiveness: The Workforce Development Challenge
- North Carolina Competitiveness: The Workforce Development Challenge
- Nutrition and Cognition
- Nutrition and Cognition
- OSPRI Lab: Education Technology (2017-2018)
- OSPRI Lab: Open Source Education Technology (2018-2019)
- Ocean Energy: Products and Pollutants (2017-2018)
- Ocean Evidence Gap Map (2018-2019)
- Oculomotor Response as an Objective Assessment for Mild TBI in the Pediatric Population (2017-2018)
- Oculomotor Response as an Objective Assessment for Mild TBI in the Pediatric Population (2018-2019)
- Oculomotor Response as an Objective Assessment for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Pediatric Population (2016-2017)
- Oculomotor Response as an Objective Measurement for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Pediatric Population
- POCkeT Colposcope: Increased Distribution and Adoption (2016-2017)
- POCkeT Colposcope: Increased Distribution and Adoption (2017-2018)
- Patients' Journey to Medication Adherence (2017-2018)
- Patients' Journey to Medication Adherence (2018-2019)
- Perception and Language
- Perception, Language and Memory (2013-2014)
- Performance in the Community (2016-2017)
- Pocket Colposcope: Analysis of Bringing Elements of Referral Services to Primary/Community Care (2018-2019)
- Privacy, Consumer EEG Devices and the Brain (2017-2018)
- Privacy, Consumer EEG Devices and the Brain (2018-2019)
- Problem-based Learning to Improve Girls' Math Identity (2018-2019)
- Project "Bright Idea": Finding Talent and Giftedness in Children of Diverse Backgrounds
- Project Vox (2018-2019)
- Project “Bright Ideas”: Finding Talent and Giftedness in Children of Diverse Backgrounds
- Public Access to Government Information (2013-2014)
- Public Access to Government Information
- Public Access to Government Information: Implementation, Voter Behavior and Rights (2014-2015)
- Racial and Educational Inequality as a Consequence of Family Structure: Learning from Shotgun Marriages
- Racial and Educational Inequality as a Consequence of Family Structure: Learning from Shotgun Marriages
- Reconsidering Addiction and Opioid Abuse: Is There a Causal Chain between Opioid Addiction, Morbidity and Mortality? (2016-2017)
- Refining Surveillance for Zoonotic Respiratory Viruses in Sarawak, Malaysia (2018-2019)
- Regulatory Disaster Scene Investigation
- Remember Why You Should Do It? Memory and Reasons in Moral Decision-making (2018-2019)
- Resident engagement and energy behavior assessment through mobile phone technology
- Responding to the Educational and Psychological Needs of Children and Families in Durham’s Transitional Housing
- Rethinking the Endangered Species Act's Implementation on Private, Working Lands (2018-2019)
- Reviewing Retrospective Regulatory Review
- SSNAP: Scientific Social Network Analysis Project (2016-2017)
- STEM foR ALL
- STEM for All (2016-2017)
- STEM for All (2017-2018)
- School Drop-Out, Disconnected Youth, and the Middle Years
- School Drop-Out, Disconnected Youth, and the Middle Years
- School Dropout Prevention in the Durham Public Schools: Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of Effective Strategies (2016-2017)
- Schooling and Parenting: Implications for Students' Academic Identity (2016-2017)
- Schooling and Parenting: Implications for Students' Academic Identity (2017-2018)
- Self-Guided Parameter Fitting for Cochlear Implant Users
- Shining Evolutionary Light on Global Health Challenges
- Smart Archaeology (2018-2019)
- Sowers and Reapers: Gardening in an Era of Change (2018-2019)
- Spirituality, Self-management and Chronic Disease among Ethnic Groups of Robeson County, North Carolina (2016-2017)
- Stemming the Opiate Epidemic through Education and Outreach (2016-2017)
- Stemming the Opiate Epidemic through Education and Outreach (2017-2018)
- Strengthening Community Environmental Health through Duke- HBCU Partnerships
- Studying the "Real" Slums in Bangalore?
- Studying the Real 'Slums' in Bangalore, Patna and Jaipur (2016-2017)
- Tact, Touch, Proprioception: The Culture and Neuroscience of Touch
- Tact, Touch, Proprioception: The Culture and Neuroscience of Touch
- Technology & Innovation Policy Lab
- The 21st Century Student: Open Knowledge and Education Innovation
- The Construction of Memory at Duke and in Durham: Using Memory Studies (2016-2017)
- The Cost of Opportunity: Access to Higher Education in Brazil (2018-2019)
- The Cost of Opportunity? Higher Education in the Baixada Fluminense (2016-2017)
- The Cost of Opportunity? Higher Education in the Baixada Fluminense (2017-2018)
- The Digital Landscape: New technologies to visualize ancient landscapes (2014-2015)
- The Digital Landscape: New technologies to visualize ancient landscapes
- The Lives of Things (2013-2014)
- The Lives of Things (2014-2015)
- The Lives of Things
- The Role of Catholic Campus Religious Ministries in the Formation of Young Adults (2017-2018)
- The Role of Catholic Campus Religious Ministries in the Formation of Young Adults: Psychological, Social and Organizational Factors (2016-2017)
- The University as a Laboratory for Smart Grid Data Analytics
- The University as an Energy Laboratory: Design and Implementation of an Energy Disaggregation System
- The effects of unconventional shale gas development on rural communities
- Toward Better ESL (English as a Second Language) Instruction
- Transforming Alzheimer's Disease Care through Integrating Caregivers (2018-2019)
- Translating Neuroscience into Education: A Neuroscience-based Health Curriculum for North Carolina Ninth Grade Students (2016-2017)
- Trauma and Timing
- Turning the Mid-Century Decarbonization Strategy into Concrete Policy for U.S. Forests and Agriculture (2017-2018)
- U.S. Climate Policy Options: Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Petroleum Refineries & Steel
- Using Machine Learning to Generate Clinical Prediction Rules for Clinical Outcomes in Schizophrenia (2017-2018)
- Using Machine Learning to Generate Clinical Prediction Rules for Clinical Outcomes in Schizophrenia (2018-2019)
- Using Neuroscience to Optimize Digital Health Interventions across Adulthood (2018-2019)
- Vaccine Misinformation and Its Link to Vaccine Hesitancy and Uptake in Durham (2018-2019)
- Virtual Avatar Coaches: Improving Mental Health Treatment for College Students with Accessible Peer Support (2018-2019)
- Visualizing Energy through Live Performance (2017-2018)
- Visualizing Social Mobility in the Developing World (2017-2018)
- Visualizing Venice (2014-2015)
- Visualizing Venice
- Voices Together
- Voices Together Data Analysis Project (2017-2018)
- Voices Together: Music Therapy and Autism in Elementary Schools (2016-2017)
- Voices Together: Music Therapy and Autism in Elementary Schools
- Where Does the Money Go? Federal Spending on American Children (2016-2017)
- Where are the "Real" Slums in Bangalore? (2013-2014)
- Where are the "Real" Slums in Bangalore
- Wired for Learning: Supporting Thinking Skills in the K-2 Classroom (2018-2019)
- mHealth for Better Routine Immunization Data in Honduras (2017-2018)
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Project Vox (2018-2019)

Background
Philosophy is a surprisingly static enterprise: the canonical figures in early modern philosophy, from Descartes and Locke to Hume and Kant, have remained essentially fixed in teaching and research for the past 50 years. The all-male canon reflects the fact that women were often excluded from early modern intellectual life, which centered on universities like Oxford and institutions like the Académie Royales des Sciences in Paris. New historical research demonstrates that many women managed nonetheless to publish philosophical works in French, German and English. Until very recently, however, college courses throughout the English-speaking world have neglected them.
Project Description
Founded in 2014, Project Vox is a web-based scholarly guide to the lost voices of women in early modern philosophy. Developed through robust collaborations with scholars in the U.S. and abroad, the Project Vox website has become an invaluable resource for undergraduates, graduate students, instructors and scholars eager to learn more about the contributions of women to the modern philosophy.
This Bass Connections project will extend and strengthen the work of Project Vox in order to give students the chance to engage in the creation, curation, and maintenance of an internationally prominent digital humanities project. By undertaking original research projects, the team will work to expand the Project Vox website to include a wider range of figures and historical eras. The team will also work to build and maintain website infrastructure to ensure smooth operation across multiple platforms. Additionally, team members will assess the website’s use through surveys and Google Analytics and engage in communications and outreach projects that will introduce Project Vox to new users.
Anticipated Outcomes
Expansion of Project Vox website to cover a wider range of early modern women; analysis of web infrastructure and analytics to address website functionality, usability and reach; original archival research and translation projects
Student Opportunities
Students will engage with every aspect of Project Vox and gain valuable skills in team-based digital publishing, from gathering historical information, to writing new code underlying the web platform, to using social media to promote the site and reach new audiences. The team will meet weekly to discuss every aspect of creating, curating and maintaining an internationally prominent digital project.
This team will be made up of undergraduate and graduate students with a range of interests, skills and disciplinary backgrounds. Some team members should have the technical skills necessary to work on the website; some should have various levels of training in philosophy; some will learn how to find historically accurate images to help portray the life and times of the women featured on the website. This training combines information from art history, library science and European history, enabling team members to find the provenance of images, obtain permission to use images and uncover forgeries.
Undergraduate students can expect to hone independent research skills, learn how to write drafts of copy for a website, track Project Vox on social media and assist in maintaining the usability and stability of the website’s functions.
Graduate students can expect to conduct advanced archival research (with the possibility for international travel), assist with manuscript translation, coordinate community outreach and website assessment and engage in grant writing. All team members will learn fundamental teamwork skills and communicate across disciplinary and learner-level boundaries.
A graduate student will serve as a full-time project manager for one academic year (in lieu of traditional TA or teaching duties). The project manager will plan meetings, organize workflow, track the use of funds and take on other duties as needed.
The relevant team leader will evaluate each student’s work, grade it if appropriate and provide a letter of reference if relevant.
Timing
Fall 2018 – Spring 2019
Students may participate in either or both semesters.
- Fall 2018: Extensive training and discussion related to issues in digital publishing; original and continued research on women in early modern philosophy
- Spring 2019: Continued research; expansion of Project Vox website to include new figures
Crediting
Independent study credit available for fall and spring semesters