Grants in Action

Celebrating Vassar’s Grants and Those Who Lead Them

Grants in Action highlights and celebrates the grant funding, principal investigators, project leadership, and external partnerships that enrich faculty research, institutional programs, and the student experience at Vassar. It serves as a dynamic companion to the Grants Office site, where grant policies and processes are maintained.

Celebrating Scholarship

Shirley Johnson-Lans is the Editor and Contributing Author of <em>The Coronavirus Pandemic and Inequality: A Global Perspective</em>.

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Shirley Johnson-Lans is the Editor and Contributing Author of The Coronavirus Pandemic and Inequality: A Global Perspective.

Colette Salyk Secures Grants from Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

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Colette Salyk Secures Grants from Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Amitava Kumar is a Fellow of The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center

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Amitava Kumar is a Fellow of The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center

Ashanti Shih is a 2023 Sinnott Award recipient

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Ashanti Shih is a 2023 Sinnott Award recipient

Ed Buie II Secures Grant Award from the Space Telescope Science Institute

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Ed Buie II Secures Grant Award from the Space Telescope Science Institute

Grants in Action: Grand Challenges

As part of the Elevating the Student Voice symposium, the Grand Challenges team worked with graphic facilitator Sasha Brito, of Image Think who distilled concepts and ideas presented throughout the day, made connections between them, and captured them using visual representations—all in real time. Read more about the 3-day symposium.

Institutional Grants

Grants in Action features institutional or programmatic grants, which enrich college-wide programs and priorities and support areas such as curricular innovation, faculty development, capital improvements, or strengthening ties with our surrounding community.

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Community-Engaged Intensives in the Humanities

The initiative aims to foster and support the development of community-engaged intensives in the Humanities that cultivate long-lasting, equitable collaborations between Vassar College’s campus and people and organizations in the city of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, and the Hudson Valley.

Visit the Community-Engaged Intensives in the Humanities site

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Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement and Education

Vassar, Bard, Bennington, and Sarah Lawrence colleges founded the Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education to explore what role institutions such as ours could play in addressing this development.

Visit the Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education site

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Engaged Pluralism Initiative

A campus-wide initiative dedicated to building communities of belonging, inclusion, and equity at the college.

Visit the Engaged Pluralism Initiative site

Grand Challenges

Founded in 2018 with the help of a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Grand Challenges program fosters inclusive excellence in STEM education at Vassar College through a five-year initiative of curricular innovation, faculty development, and community engagement.

Visit the Grand Challenges site

The Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment at Vassar College

Funded by Luce Initiative of Asia and Environment (LIASE) with supplemental grants from Vassar, the Vassar College LIASE program organizes a series of activities to promote the understanding of Asia in environmental studies.

Visit the Vassar College LIASE program site

Vassar Stories

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The ECMC Exploring Transfer Together Grant is Making an Impact

Exploring Transfer (ET), a 5-week summer program hosted for over 35 years at Vassar, demonstrates the importance of efforts that target and support community college students who are considering transfer to a four-year college. Vassar’s recent grant from the ECMC Foundation is moving forward in some vital ways.

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CFMDE Initiative Launches New Digital Scholars Teaching Fellowship

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).

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Vassar Students ‘Dance to Connect’ with High School Students

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.

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Vassar Wins Grant to Help Community College Students Succeed at Four-Year Schools

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.