A collection of works by African American artists from the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art kicked off a national tour on September 30 with an opening at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center on the Vassar College campus. The exhibition, titled Silver Linings, highlights the works of masters, pioneers, and trailblazers who anchor the Spelman collection. The nearly 40 works represent a variety of media and techniques including painting, drawing, sculpture, mixed-media collage, prints, and photographs.
Vassar has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to purchase a one-million-dollar, state-of-the-art microscope that will significantly enhance faculty and student research opportunities at Vassar and other nearby colleges.
Associate professor of Earth Science Laura Haynes has been awarded a $500,000 federal grant to join a nationwide research project focusing on mitigating global warming.
Vassar secured a $40,000 grant enabling the College to digitize nearly 300 recordings of choral groups, musical plays and other audio recordings from phonograph records, tapes and compact discs.
The Mellon Foundation-funded Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education (CFMDE) responds to the ongoing global challenges posed by forced migration, through curriculum development, sponsoring collaborative research, and supporting displaced scholars across four college campuses: Vassar, Bard, Bennington, Sarah Lawrence, and The New School. This past year Vassar successfully launched its new signature program, the Digital Scholars Teaching Fellowship program, which pairs displaced scholars (teaching virtually) with Vassar faculty members (teaching in person).
Vassar students enrolled in an intensive class with Lecturer and Chair of Dance Miriam Mahdaviani collaborated with a professional instructor from Battery Dance, a New York City dance company, to create a pair of performances with students from Poughkeepsie High School.
Vassar has received a grant to develop more robust partnerships with community colleges that take part in the Exploring Transfer program and to engage more four-year liberal arts colleges in developing such programs of their own.
Vassar students Sufana Noorwez ’24 and Dariana Serrano ’25 have launched scientific research projects under the auspices of the Beckman Scholars program.
Thirty-two students from Vassar, Mercy College, Wheaton College and the University of Massachusetts gathered on the Vassar campus last month to trade ideas on how to make STEM curricula more inclusive.
