*Two days left to apply by priority deadline* It’s Not Too Late to Join a 2024-2025 Bass Connections Project Team! Students may apply to up to two project teams using our online application. The priority deadline to for applications is August 14 at 5 p.m. ❗After the priority deadline, applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and recruitment for each team will be closed once positions for that team are filled. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/evvsn7uw
Duke University, Bass Connections
Higher Education
Durham, North Carolina 941 followers
Supporting interdisciplinary research teams of faculty, students and communities addressing complex societal challenges
About us
Bass Connections brings together faculty, postdocs, graduate students, undergraduates and external partners to tackle complex societal challenges in interdisciplinary research teams.
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https://bassconnections.duke.edu/
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- Higher Education
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- 501-1,000 employees
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- Durham, North Carolina
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- Educational
- Founded
- 2013
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2024 W Main Street
Durham, North Carolina 27705, US
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“We just realized that faculty and students were seeking opportunities to engage in these issues in a constructive and substantive way,” said Laura Howes, assistant vice provost of interdisciplinary studies and Bass Connections. Read more about our new pop-up theme on geopolitical conflict and humanitarian crises in the Middle East and beyond, and apply to be a part of a team by August 14 at 5 p.m.! https://lnkd.in/eBvfgWN5
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🚨 Twenty-eight project teams, including nine new teams pursuing research related to the Middle East, are now recruiting student team members to begin work in Fall 2024. The deadline to apply is August 14 at 5 p.m. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and recruitment for each team will be closed once positions for that team are filled. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/evvsn7uw
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Micaela was the recipient of a 2023 Student Research Award, building off work done by her Bass Connections team: Social Provision of Information for Effective Democratic Citizens. Take a look at her amazing work!
Last summer, I went home to Maine to spend 3 months traveling around the state conducting in-depth interviews about broadband with residents of rural communities and their local leaders. I am happy and honored to share that the paper I wrote as a result, "Broadband Diffusion in Rural Maine: A Qualitative Assessment of Residents' Attitudes," was published in Volume 33 of the Maine Policy Review! My project documents how rural Mainers are reacting to broadband diffusion and how the broadband conversation relates more broadly to people's visions for the future of rural life. Participants in my project—librarians, tribal leaders, volunteers, island residents, farmers—shared their thoughts, hopes, and fears. Our conversations often centered on how digital equity projects might balance connectivity goals with efforts to preserve and even enrich rural ways of life. My findings underscore the need for community-driven policy approaches to digital equity that account for local values and aspirations. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to offer a glimpse into Mainers' feelings about how broadband will impact their lives at this critical policy moment while the Maine Connectivity Authority (MCA) and its partners implement Maine's Digital Equity Plan and the U.S. government works to make #internetforall a reality. Thank you to my former professor and advisor, Philip Napoli, for all of your support and guidance throughout my time at Duke, and thank you to Professor Crystal Hall for your mentorship and encouragement when I was at Bowdoin, where I began researching digital equity. Thank you also to Jessica Perez for inviting me to present my findings to MCA partners this past April. Lastly, I'd like to express my gratitude for the Duke University, Bass Connections Student Research Award that made last summer possible. #digitalequity #digitalinclusion #broadband #ruralbroadband #Maine
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At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many Durham families struggled with food insecurity due to lockdowns and layoffs. Despite the expansion of federal programs like WIC and SNAP, access to high-quality food remains a critical issue due to information gaps and other challenges. The Tracing the Roots of Nutrition Access team is working to bridge these gaps by studying the food assistance ecosystem in Durham and by strengthening ties among local organizations, aiming to make Durham's food system more equitable and sustainable. 🌱🍎 #DukeinDurham #FoodInsecurity #CommunityEngaged https://lnkd.in/e66JFPa6
Tracing the Roots of Food Insecurity in Durham
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Victoria E. Szabo has been a pivotal leader in Bass Connections since 2013, integrating arts and humanities with sciences through projects that explore the impact of new media and information technologies on history, art and culture. Her recent work emphasizes location-based augmented reality driven by archival research, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and critical engagement among students. Read her Bass Connections faculty perspective here: https://lnkd.in/ePZPm62n #DukeCentennial #DukeResearch
Victoria Szabo
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Join the BRIDGE club at Duke University for a unique interdisciplinary experience! Spend part of your day exploring a field outside your own discipline, guided by a fellow student, and build friendships across disciplines. Sign up now to be paired with students from different disciplines and embark on a diverse learning journey. Date: Sign up for summer participation by August 10th or for fall semester participation.
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Click the link below to read reflections from a member of the Rosetta Reitz's Musical Archive of Care (2023-2024) project team! "With Pride month underway, many in the Duke community might be thinking about their identities and personal connections to the LGBTQ+ community, while others may be seeking ways to understand, reflect on, and celebrate queer history and culture. Four graduate students working towards graduate certificates from Duke’s Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies program detail their current research projects—which are all engaged in various ways with queer studies—and offer some reflections on what “Pride” means: here and elsewhere, past and present, as presence and absence, and through grief and joy." https://lnkd.in/eQWDR-Ei
Rosetta Reitz's Musical Archive of Care (2023-2024)
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"The Bass Connections Race & Society theme supports interdisciplinary projects exploring the ways race intersects with society and the lived experience." 👏 https://lnkd.in/e_FUvWPY
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Listen to this interview with members of the Reproductive Health Care Post-Roe (2023-2024) team! Doctors, students, and researchers at Duke University are developing an oral history archive to shed light on the stories of abortion patients and providers impacted by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision and North Carolina’s 12-week ban. In part one of this conversation, co-host Leoneda Inge talks with three doctors about why they're contributing to this audio archive that captures reproductive health history, happening now. Then, co-host Leoneda Inge is joined by two students who are also involved in the oral history project, as well as by a #reproductivejustice advocate, to talk about the disproportionate impact of abortion restrictions on historically-marginalized populations, particularly Black women, and how abortion bans impact Black #maternalhealth. https://lnkd.in/ewevq2fv
Oral history project documents impact of abortion restrictions since the fall of Roe v. Wade
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