The Undergraduate Research Summer Institute’s 2023 Symposium showcased the 55 science projects undertaken this summer by 89 students and 33 faculty mentors.
Dozens of students and others in the Vassar community took part in a three-day tree-planting project aimed at protecting a stream on the Preserve at Vassar.
The Vassar Veterans Association will host the Braga 5K, a race/walk honoring the memory of Army National Guard vet Fernando Braga, who died by suicide last year. Funds raised at the event will benefit Braga’s daughter, Zafira, and two organizations that combat veteran suicide.
The Department of Athletics and Physical Education will host its annual Athletics Day of Giving on October 5 and 6. Funds raised in the 27-hour event will benefit the College’s 29 teams and the department at large.
More than 80 students engaged in research projects on the Vassar campus this summer with 33 faculty members under the auspices of the Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI).
Ten Vassar students spent the summer working for not-for-profit organizations in Poughkeepsie under the auspices of the Office of Community-Engaged Learning’s Community Fellows program.
Three years after a global pandemic interrupted their normal college experience, members of Vassar’s Class of 2023 were lauded for their remarkable resiliency at the College’s 159th Commencement exercises on Sunday, May 21.
