Openings on Bass Connections Project Teams for Spring 2020, Apply by Nov. 22

These 2019-2020 teams are seeking additional student team members for Spring 2020!

Interested students should read the project descriptions below carefully and follow the instructions to apply.

Building Duke: The Architectural History of Duke Campus from 1924 to the Present

This project team is creating a timeline of Duke’s buildings, landscape and infrastructure as well as a series of historical narratives that detail patronage and financing, architectural and landscape design, materials and labor as well as issues around identity, gender, class and race.

This team is seeking undergraduate and graduate student team members for Spring 2020. The team will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:05-5:35 p.m.

Interested students should enroll in the Building Duke course: ARTHIST 504SL. No application required.

Duke Design Health Fellows Program

On this project team, interdisciplinary design teams work together to collect unmet patient needs using clinical ethnographic methods, develop new concepts and tools, and research the business, regulatory, clinical and manufacturing landscape around medical innovation. This spring, teams will work through a development strategy to determine what insights will be required to bring their chosen technology forward, as well as the funding requirements and timing to raise capital at key milestones. The project will conclude with an investor pitch to an outside panel of seasoned CEOs, VCs and other experts ushering from research and industry.

This team is seeking several undergraduate and/or graduate student team members for Spring 2020. The team will meet Wednesdays from 6:15-8:45 p.m.

• Applicants with prior coursework in Cultural Anthropology (and specifically ethnographic or fieldwork methods) are encouraged to apply.
• Preference will be given to students in the social sciences.

Interested students should send a resume and statement of interest to Eric Richardson (eric.s.richardson) and Anne-Maria Makhulu (amakhulu) by Nov. 22.

Open Design at Duke and Beyond

When we hear the word “design,” we often think about a product, but design also refers to a process that can be used by teams to solve deeply complex, real-world problems. This project is working to build design experiences at Duke, including creating a summer research program in which students can apply design thinking to help local organizations.

This team is seeking several undergraduate and/or graduate student team members for Spring 2020. The team will meet Thursdays from 1:00-2:30 p.m.

• Applicants must have a foundation in qualitative research and an interest in design thinking.
• Preference will be given to students interested in helping communicate the team’s work and engaging with faculty to better understand their needs and interests in integrating design further into the curriculum.

Interested students should send a resume and statement of interest to Aria Chernik (aria.chernik) and Kevin Hoch (kevin.hoch) by Nov. 22.

Representing Migration through Digital Humanities: Remembering the Middle Passage

This project team is using digital humanities tools to creatively visualize human migration. The Remembering the Middle Passage sub-team is working to put together a map of where the deaths of enslaved persons occurred in the Atlantic from approximately 1750-1850. While research has been done into the total number of deaths in the middle passage, no one has focused on where those deaths occurred. In doing so, this project is generating original data on the slave trade.

This team is seeking several undergraduate and/or graduate student team members for Spring 2020. The team will meet Wednesdays from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m.

• Applicants must be interested in researching eighteenth-century medical, legal and navigational history.
• Preference will be given to students with skills in digital design, particularly in relation to ArcGIS mapping.

Interested students should send a resume and statement of interest to Charlotte Sussman (charlotte.sussman) by Nov. 22.

Interested in a project team for 2020-2021?

2020-2021 project teams will be announced in mid-January, and the online application will open on January 24. Students can talk with team leaders and learn more about new project teams at the Bass Connections Fair.