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Your support for interdisciplinary opportunities compels change “Bass Connections has the audacity to take on the big, ‘so complex they’re scary’ problems in society, while maintaining the flexibility to find solutions creatively,” said Ray Li. His team, Project Bright IDEA, aimed to find alternative curricula to better cater to students from disadvantaged backgrounds in North Carolina schools. Basing its research …
Donor commitment to innovation inspires and uplifts When she was a Duke Global Health Institute and economics undergraduate student, Suhani Jalota ’16 used her time to understand and improve the health systems of vulnerable populations. She set her eyes on positively affecting women by empowering them—and landed on concentrating her efforts on the female hygiene market. As a participant in …
Funding helps students be leaders in emerging fields The Duke Center for Genomic and Computational Biology (GCB) is an interdisciplinary research center that extends research and analysis across disciplines to solve complex problems on an international scale. Its teams have competed in the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition every year since 2006, but it wasn’t until Duke Forward that …
Giving uplifts entrepreneurs to new heights Great ideas come in many flavors. For Tatiana Birgisson, founder and CEO of MATI Energy, the incredible opportunities at Duke led to a thriving beverage company. Birgisson was one of the first students to take part in entrepreneurship programs strengthened by donor support. The Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative is embedded into all parts …
Internship opportunities with institutions on the cutting edge Andrew Klinkman is working on power storage at Tesla. And the Duke Energy Initiative is a big reason why. Klinkman interned at Tesla during his M.E.M./M.B.A. program. “It’s the hub that connects everything about energy on campus,” he said. “The people at the Energy Initiative have been absolutely great about connecting you …