Are you and a group of your fellow students excited about testing a new idea or exploring a compelling research question? Do you want to extend work that you started through your Bass Connections project?

Students can apply for research funding, either individually or as a group, through the following opportunities:

Bass Connections Student Research Awards

Now accepting proposals until Monday, February 19, 2024 at 5 p.m. 

The Bass Connections Student Research Award provides funds of up to $3,000 (for one to two students) or $5,000 (for groups of more than two students) to support individual or collaborative student-directed research projects. Undergraduate and graduate students from any Duke school may apply.

Collaborative research projects do not require prior participation in Bass Connections, but must be interdisciplinary in nature. Individual research projects must stem from a Bass Connections year-long project team or summer program experience. All projects must have a faculty mentor and applicants must be active students during the grant period (May 2024 to May 2025). 

Please read the proposal guidelines carefully and submit a proposal using our online application by February 19 at 5:00 p.m.

Student Team Grants

Now accepting proposals until Monday, February 19, 2024 at 5 p.m.

Offered in partnership with the Duke Undergraduate Research Support Office, this grant provides funds of up to $5,000 to support collaborative research projects involving two or more students, at least one of whom must be a Trinity undergraduate student.

Projects can address a broad range of research topics and result in an array of research outputs, from traditional theses, research papers and conference presentations to prototypes, exhibits, websites and media campaigns, data sets and apps, performances and more. All projects must have a faculty mentor and applicants must be active students during the grant period (May 2024 to May 2025).

Please read the proposal guidelines carefully and submit a proposal using our online application by February 19 at 5:00 p.m.

Learn More

• Check out last year’s winners of the Bass Connections Student Research Award.
• View highlights from our Bass Connections 2022-2023 Annual Report.
• Browse our collection of student stories.