Home / People / Dr. Robert Bass Dr. Robert Bass Professor of Mathematics Dr. Bass joined the Gardner-Webb faculty in 1995 as an Associate Professor of Mathematics. In years 1997 – 2007 he served as the chair of the Department of Mathematical Sciences. His published mathematics research has concerned integral representations of univalent functions. He earned the Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1988 under the direction of John Pfaltzgraff and Joseph Cima.