Awards
Leadership Award
Bass Connections team leaders develop projects and collaborate with students to generate meaningful research outputs.
This award recognizes outstanding faculty and staff team leaders for their creativity, intellectual vision and commitment to mentoring.
Joint Winners
Kyle Bradbury and Jordan Malof, Creating Artificial Worlds With AI to Improve Energy Access Data
Finalists
- Astrid Giugni, Ethical Consumption Before Capitalism
- Tamara Fitzgerald, Sustainable Implementation of Laparoscopy in Low-Income Countries
- Andrew Flynn, Gabryel Garcia-Sampson, Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, Gabriela Plasencia and Andrea Thoumi, Bridging the Health Equity Gap for COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake in Durham
Award for Outstanding Mentorship
Bass Connections empowers advanced team members to gain experience guiding others through the collaborative research process.
This award recognizes the crucial leadership and mentorship roles that graduate students and postdocs play on project teams.
Winner
Aislinn McLaughlin, A City and Its River: Durham’s Ellerbe Creek Watershed
Finalists
- Ethan Borre, Evaluating Strategies to Reduce the Global Burden of Hearing Loss
- Jessica Coleman, Promoting Psychological Adjustment and Pelvic Health Among Female Cancer Survivors
- Adrienne Jones, Justice Reform Efforts on Self-Sufficiency
- Natalie Meltzer, Revaluing Care in the Global Economy
Student Research Awards
Bass Connections supports students who wish to take their team research further or explore a new topic.
These grants provide support for students to pursue self-directed research projects under the guidance of a faculty mentor. Projects can be individual or collaborative and may continue an aspect of research begun on a Bass Connections team or tackle a new challenge.
2022 Recipients
- Community-Based Epilepsy Intervention in Uganda: Paula Njeru and Pratamesh Ramasubramanian
- Community-Engaged Sickle Cell Disease Research in Kalangala, Uganda: Bailey Griffen, Lihua Mo, Caroline Palmer, Kashyap Sreeram, Vivien Wambugu and Maya Wilson
- Effects of Mindfulness-Based Painting on Psychophysiological Well-Being: Lucas Bellaiche, Matthew Slayton, Anna Smith and Chloe Williams
- Engineering a Low-Cost Device to Monitor Irrigation in Rural Kenya: Vanessa Clairmont, Keena Gao, Bryan Gonzalez, Emily Hallock, Jack Lawter, Sunggun Lee, Sophia McManus and Darienne Rogers
- Fundamentals of Neuroscience: Experiments in Science and Writing: Monika Narain
- Increasing Health Literacy in Durham Marginalized Communities: Rohan Gupta, Ethan Ho, Mihir Patel and Kevin Wang
- Integrating Human and Ecosystem Health Research to Advance Community-Based Conservation: Camille DeSisto, Tristan Franzetti and Bethany Old
- Network Efficiency and Ordering Fairness on Public Blockchains: Sujay Alluri, Gio Vignone and William Zhao
- Surveying Neurological Rehabilitation Resources in Ugandan Public Hospitals: Audra Whithaus
