Companies, governments and organizations are looking for graduates with training and experience tackling complex issues. Through Bass Connections, Duke is channeling its unique culture of collaboration, ambitious entrepreneurial spirit and established record of applying classroom learning to pressing global problems, to create a distinctive new model for education.

Each project is a collaboration between two or more schools, institutes, and initiatives, bringing together students and faculty from diverse and interdisciplinary backgrounds. Below are some of the recent projects involving Science & Society students and faculty.

Our Bass Connections Projects

• Biometrics and Immigration Policy (2020-2021)
• Mobile EEG Devices: Group Interactions, Privacy and the Brain (2020-2021)
• Going to Mars: Science, Society and Sustainability (2020-2021)
• Gene Therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease and Ethical Aspects of Genome Editing (2020-2021)

Previous Years

• Data-driven Approaches to Illuminate the Responses of Lakes to Multiple Stressors (2019-2020)
  • Science Under the Surface Podcast
• Consumer EEG Devices: Attention, Emotion, Privacy and the Brain (2019-2020)
• Gene Therapy in Alzheimer’s Disease: Novel Therapies and Ethical Aspects of Somatic Gene Editing (2019-2020)
• Consumer EEG, Mental and Emotional States, Privacy and the Brain (2018-2019)
• Privacy, Consumer EEG Devices and the Brain (2017-2018)
• Governance and Adaptive Regulation of Transformational Technologies in Transportation (2017-2018)

Projects Involving Students and Alumni of S&S Programs

• Enabling Precision Health and Medicine (2017-2018)
• Addressing Global Health Needs among Refugee Children and Families in Durham County (2017-2018)