Interdisciplinary Studies

March 30, 2020

Balleisen Reappointed for Second Term as Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies

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Laura Howes is the director of Bass Connections, a university-wide interdisciplinary initiative that brings students, faculty and researchers together to solve complex societal challenges. Photo by Jonathan Black.

March 9, 2020

Blue Devil of the Week: A Front-Row Seat to Interdisciplinary Research

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David Toole

March 4, 2020

Essays on Questions Concerning What It Means to Be Human

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February 25, 2020

Duke Alumnus Wins Luce Scholarship for Research in Asia

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new interdepartmental major covers computer science and linguistics

February 24, 2020

Computer Science + Linguistics Makes for a New Interdepartmental Major in Trinity

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February 20, 2020

Listening for Zora Hurston Neale: Merging Sonic Archives with the Digital Humanities

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The Making Young Voters Bass Connections team

February 11, 2020

Young People Think Voting Matters. A Bass Connections Team Is Exploring Why Many of Them Don't

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Sonia Grego

February 3, 2020

Smart Toilet Saves Vital Health Data from Getting Flushed

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Emily Klein, professor of earth and ocean sciences, and Josiah Knight, associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science, work with students from the Bass Connections project team “Energy andthe Environment: Design and Innovation.”

January 27, 2020

$5 Million Gift Will Support Bass Connections Program

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Story+ YouTube video cover photo

January 6, 2020

Harriet Tubman's Life in Pictures

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A team of students from the Nicholas School of the Environment and Pratt School of Engineering has been working for more than a year to create a single digital map of the service boundaries of North Carolina’s drinking water systems

December 20, 2019

Protecting the State's Drinking Water: Project Maps Infrastructure for NC Communities

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Team member gardening at the Briggs Community Garden (Photo: Chris Teufel)

December 9, 2019

Gardening in Durham: Working With Dirt, Sweat, Creativity and Political Change

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Dutch Slaving Voyages (1751-1795): The height of each bar corresponds to the average number of deaths per 150km2 grid. The color of the bar corresponds to the number of ship locations recorded in each grid.

December 2, 2019

How Do We Remember and Memorialize the Middle Passage?

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Exhibit shows celebrities from Stevie Nicks to Kanye West who followed Whitman's example.

December 2, 2019

How Walt Whitman Showed the Way for Artists to Become Celebrities

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Postcard Image of Lincoln Hospital

November 23, 2019

Your Health, Your Neighborhood. There's a Connection

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Ed Balleisen, Julia Reidhead and Dean Smith discuss the business of books.

November 15, 2019

Advice for Would-be Book Authors

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