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Leadership Award
The Bass Connections Leadership Award recognizes outstanding faculty and staff team leaders for their creativity, intellectual vision and commitment to student mentoring on Bass Connections project teams.
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Leadership Award Winners: David Ming and Neal deJong
For the past three years, Ming and deJong have been bringing together students from Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct community-engaged research and advocacy aimed at strengthening coordinated care for children across medical and social service systems.
Award for Outstanding Mentorship
The Bass Connections Award for Outstanding Mentorship recognizes graduate/professional students and postdocs who have made tremendous contributions to the success of their team and positively shaped their fellow team members’ experiences.
Student Research Awards
Bass Connections Student Research Awards provide support for students to pursue self-directed research projects under the guidance of a faculty mentor. Student projects can be individual or collaborative, and may continue an aspect of research begun on a Bass Connections project team or tackle a new interdisciplinary challenge.
14 graduate and professional students and 22 undergraduates will pursue faculty-mentored research projects this summer and next year with grant funding from Bass Connections. Their projects explore a diverse range of topics, including creating a resource toolkit for spine surgery patients, studying barriers to food security in adults with physical disabilities, and exploring how to deliver immunotherapies to head and neck cancer patients in a safer and more equitable way.