"MIT has a network of successful alumni who make substantial donations to their alma mater and the power these connections grant the university cannot be overestimated," he noted on the QS website.
Keval Kaur Khalsa, Associate Professor of the Practice of Dance & Theater Studies at Duke University, and Michele Berger, Associate Professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel have, have received a Bass Connections grant from Duke University for their research project Mindfulness In Education & Human Development.
She recently won a Coulter Grant to work with collaborators in the Department of Biomedical Engineering to create a SmartShunt, a CSF-shunt which will permit noninvasive measurement of intracranial pressure; and is a team leader on a Bass Connections grant to investigate the use of oculomotor assessments to noninvasively diagnose sports-related traumatic brain injury (TBI).
These students, and those working on interdisciplinary teams funded by a Bass Connections grant, collaborate with professors from fields as diverse as brain science and art history on digital excavations and use today's technology to create 3D images of the ancient structures.
The introduced theoretical framework subsequently allows the transparent set-up of different types of micro-macro connections granting the description of both (i) internal connexions at material discontinuity surfaces embedded in the considered continua and, as a particular case, (ii) possible connections between different (Cauchy, Mindlin or relaxed micromorphic) continua.
Mark Borsuk and Celine Robinson, in collaboration with other researchers in the Duke community, received one of five Bass Connections grants to study Hurricane Florence.
Along with law professor Jonathan Wiener and environmental economist Lori Bennear, he has led collaborative, team-based research on regulatory policy-making through two separate Bass Connections grants.
As the meeting continued, however, she realized that she was being accused of having violated several rules against conflicts of interest in connection with grant applications she had handled.
Mr. Schulberg denied any connection, while granting that his denial was probably "a lost cause".
Size, plus ownership of high-speed Internet connections, will grant it more power at the bargaining table with program networks and Internet platforms.
