The Infant Toddler Center at Vassar has been awarded the workforce retention grant this year with bonuses targeted at retraining, rewarding, and recruiting early childhood professionals.

Elizabeth Cannon, Director of Community-Engaged-Learning, in collaboration with Celebrating the African Spirit and Revive College Hill Park Coalition, secured a Civic Imagination Partnership Grant from Partners for Campus-Community Engagement (PCCE). This grant will support the Frederick Douglass Day Celebration, a true community event that brings together organizations across the City of Poughkeepsie to focus on racial healing, anti-racism, and coalition-building.

Josh de Leeuw, Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, received a grant from the National Science Foundation, together with his collaborators from MIT, MGH IHP, and Yale University, for their project entitled “POSE: Phase II: An Open-Source Ecosystem for Behavioral Experiments.” The funded project will create an open-source ecosystem for behavioral experiments centered around jsPsych, an established and highly-used tool for behavioral research.